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Remain Calm- Compressed +
2021-24

Location:
Sharjah Art Foundation

Format:
Installation
Material:
mixed media installation

Credit: 
Text and Script: Miriam Stoney
Technical Design: Benjamin Maus
Video: Yoshihiro Inada
Sound: Nozomu Matsumoto
Character Design: Aisha Frantz
Architectural Design: Charlotte Spichalsky
3D Design: Kai Yoshizawa and Nevo Bar
Team Archive
Archive Design: Minami Shimakage
Archive Interface Production: Saki Ozaki
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Remain Calm – Compressed+ is an installation developed from the  series Remain Calm (2019–2023)︎︎︎. A scaled scenographic installation, its compressed, futuristic landscape is programmed with simulations of various catastrophes — earthquakes, floods, fires, technical errors, and meteorite impacts.

The installation imagines an institution in a state of emergency, presenting miniature models of the venues where versions of Remain Calm have been performed as a simulative set on which disasters unfold. It examines the kinds of solidarity that emerge in crisis, and the formation of relationships and forms of existence in a world where disaster prevention is widespread. Through an animistic engine that drives machines, lifeforms, objects, and environments, the work explores a worlding language for the world we co-exist within.
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