80 Pure Freude an Wasser OCEANS THIRTEEN Tidalectics a group exhibition at TBA21 in Vienna presents thirteen artists that examine the cultural political and physical dimensions of the oceans TEXT DR JENI FULTON The exhibition Tidalectics in Vienna s TBA21 exhi bition space in the Augarten park takes the oceans vast still largely unknown and now endangered as its starting point Drawn from six years of artistic research and activity undertaken by collector and patron Francesca von Habsburg s TBA21 Academy the exhibition focuses on the cultural political and physical dimensions of the oceans Nine works orig inate directly from the academy s exploration pro gram from 2013 the research ship MV Dardanelles has hosted a motley crew of oceanographers art ists curators and writers who have been making art as they travel and engage with locals in Jamaica Costa Rica Belize Fiji Iceland and other places Taking its title from a play on words by the celebrat ed Barbadian poet historian Kamau Brathwaite that refers to the circular rather than linear movement of water the show is curated by Stefanie Hessler and is ambitious in scope Visually stunning Tue Greenfort s piece Tamoya Ohboya 2017 marries an aquarium of jellyfish with video footage taken during an exhibition to Papua New Guinea and the Marquesas Jellyfish are one of the oldest living creatures first appearing 500 million years ago yet are still poorly understood And now with waters warming they are extending their territories and their range Their bodily strangeness to us as hu mans they lack bones a heart and brains challenges our understanding of communication and sensing

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