Sarah Huber and Johanna Mangold explore models of reality and states of consciousness. They use the concept of playing as a tool to understand the world as a complex simulation. In their artistic practice, they intertwine archetypal symbols, ritualistic elements, and motifs from science fiction and pop culture with scientific and theoretical paradigms. They investigate how ritual actions affect the connectivity between humans, other living beings, and the Earth, and what impact this has on human consciousness. The mechanisms of the psyche and the dynamics of bodily interactions are essential areas of their research. Through their experimental handling of heterogeneous streams of information, they create poetic works that invite viewers to renegotiate the boundaries between reality and fiction, consciousness and dream, science and mysticism.
… that we are outgrowths, individual subunits of a large, more highly developed being. A being with the will to reduce chaos, weaving patterns, networks of all colors. Driven by the urge to connect, diverse avatars were created, with which the One pretends to be Many in order to use us for stimulating self-dialogues. Interaction between two units accelerates growth and, at best, enhances the quality of this reality. By jumping back and forth between the view of the larger whole and the positions of the subunits, we immerse ourselves. We reexamine. We move. We surface and we dive…
