Finding the Wild


Lichens
Post-Shelter
Mould Takeover
Don’t shit where you eat
The Mill
Fishing Zone
Compass
1-Stroke-Sugar-Motor
Non-Extractive Mining


Finding the Wild (Jazmin Charalambous & Felix Mohr) make sculpture, performance, and participatory works rooted in ecological research. Their practice moves slowly — through contaminated ground, living organisms, and overlooked materials. They ask what it means to pay attention to the more-than-human world at a time when it is disappearing.

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Compass


2022 
performance 
kayak, magnets, retrieved metal 
Hafen Stuttgart (DE)

Compass, Hafen Stuttgart, Lange Nacht der Museen, 2022


In a performance on Stuttgart's harbour basin, Finding the Wild crossed the water by magnet alone. Sitting in a kayak, they cast two strong magnets into the harbour bed and used whatever metal they found to pull themselves forward — the vessel growing heavier and less stable with each retrieval, the journey becoming progressively more difficult. ompass asks the same question as the Rotterdam works but in a single durational arc: what does it mean to seek wilderness in a completely artificial zone? 


Compass, birds-eye view during performance, Hafen Stuttgart, 2022


Photos: Mizi Lee / Oliver Wendel