ENERGY BUDGET

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  • Artist NINA CANELL & ROBIN WATKINS
  • Technical: 4K video, mute Courtesy Nina Canell, Robin Watkins et l’IAC Rhône-Alpes
  • Duration: 16'03''
  • Year of production: 2017-2018
  • Country: Sweden
Energy Budget draws attention to how non-human energetics circulate within the infrastructure of our built environment. A two-part video, it juxtaposes a leopard slug in an electrical switchboard with a number of architectural passageways, known as dragon holes. Shifting our sense of scale and heightening a material viscosity, the subjects slowly navigate paths that are contingent to their environment. By combining real-time motion with a pneumatic zoom lens, the sequences are caught in a hesitant symbiosis.

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NINA CANELL & ROBIN WATKINS

Robin Watkins (*1980) is an Irish-Swedish artist currently living and working in Berlin, Germany. Watkins has presented sound works at La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2017), Witte de With, Rotterdam (2015), Mount Analogue, Stockholm (2013), Kunsthaus Glarus (2011), Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2010) and ICA, London (2009). He frequently collaborates with Nina Canell (*1979). Their collaborative works have been shown at Kunsthalle Baden Baden (2019); Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2018); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2017); Moderna Museet Stockholm (2014); Biennale de Lyon (2015); Sydney Biennale (2012); Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2011), MUMOK, Vienna (2010), amongst other places. Watkins studied at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dublin 2001-2005. Nina Canell was born 1979 in Växjö, went to art school in Dublin, and currently lives and works in Berlin. She has had solo museum exhibitions in Switzerland, Mexico, Belgium, South Korea, Sweden, France, Germany and England. Canell has taken part in the Venice, Cuenca, Sydney, Lyon, and Liverpool biennials, as well as group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Witte de With, Rotterdam; the ICA, London; and Guggenheim, Bilbao among others. Nina Canell frequently collaborates with Robin Watkins on installations, artist’s books and publications.