DEBRI
by Antonio Hofmeister Ribeiro, Maru Mushtrieva, Liudmila Savelyeva
photos: Dorothea Tuch
The Project
DEBRI is an audio-visual interactive installation conceived of ten narrative parts of speculative fiction and an interactive projection of space debris. DEBRI invites us to dive into the future of cosmo-politics, orbital debris and the problematic definitions of “free” space in outer space. In Russian “Debri” means: impenetrable, dense forests, and metaphorically: complex and unexplored things. In the aftermath of the complex history of space explorations, our planet’s orbit became an ever-growing waste factory. In this scenario even watching the sun becomes a political act. What does it really mean to share the “space”? The artists invert the position of a stargazer and place the projection screen on the floor allowing the audience to try out the role of a “waste magnet”. Speculative fiction texts include adaptations from “The Parasite” by Michel Serres, “Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness” by Joshua O. Reno, NASA and ESA reports and other sources.
The Artists
Antonio Hofmeister Ribeiro (Rio de Janeiro, 1992) is a Brazilian artist and software developer based In Bremen, Germany. He holds a B.A in Film and is currently finishing his master’s degree in Digital Media. Antonio has worked extensively as a creative developer in collaboration with SuperUber creative studio and as a lead developer in SuperViz.He has worked on more than a dozen multimedia projects, including installations permanently running in the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro and in the Frost Science Museum in Miami. He has showcased his artistic works and collaborative projects in Bremen (Tor40, Circa 106, Galerie Flut, Vitrine 381) and Berlin (radialsystem).
Maru Mushtrieva is a Berlin-based editor, researcher, writer, and performer. She has studied comparative literature at the Free University Berlin and received a project scholarship at Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School in 2019. Taking text as a point of departure, she is interested in putting it into dialectical relation with other media and exploring its capacities in space. This attempt to look at the text production outside of the usual literary practices led her to multiple collaborations with artists, choreographers, filmmakers, and musicians, as well as defined a direction to her curatorial work. She worked as a researcher/co-writer for choreographic pieces (Ula Sickle, Begüm Erciyas) and as a guest lecturer in media theory at Academy of Art Berlin Weißensee. Recent publications: sync. 2 (2019), Bridge IV (2020), ­ digital literature magazine (2021). Her first book length collection of performative scripts book of games and services (2020) was published by Circadian, Berlin. Recent shows: berlin atonal festival (2019), poesiefestival berlin (2020), The Forage, Berlin (2021), Krasnoyarsk Biennial, The Fine Hands Show (2021).
Liudmila Savelyeva is a Bremen-based artist and researcher from Russia with a background in sociology and photography. Formerly a research fellow at Strelka Institute (The New Normal Program), she graduated from Sociology, HSE University, Moscow. Over the past few years, she has been researching the possibilities of the latest technologies in relation to contemporary art, working on topics as future cities, sustainable development, the role of creativity and the artist’s figure in the world of changing professional relationships. At the moment, she is investigating the urban development scenarios and the role of technology in geopolitical development. Her works and collaborative projects have been shown at radialsystem, Berlin (2021), OFF-Biennále, Budapest (2021), Baltan Laboratories during Dutch Design Week, Rotterdam (2019), Karlin Studios Gallery, Prague (2018), Tarkovsky International Film Festival Zerkalo, Ivanovo Region (2016). She was also a co-curator of the text-based event series Low Text 5. Commercials, Berlin (2019).
photos: SuperUber, Franco Dubini, Jiye Lee