2021 Stimmenband

Jan Vahl (1989, DE) is an artist who works with
handcraft, moving image, sound and text to
suggest post-dramatic narratives and
decentralized forms of communication. Inspired
by the global network of whales and how they
use their environment as a transmission medium,
the work offers spatial poems in which
posthuman thinking can be evoked and the
viewer assumes the meta-position of a hopeful
drifter. Vahl’s practice aims to build on the
tradition of craft with contemporary utopia and to
let its elements such as egalitarian economies,
barter systems and networking react with
mutation processes that are driven by the
subversion of the digital dictation.