Nathalie Grenzhaeuser
Me interesa el espacio asociativo que surge entre lo que se ve, se siente y se conoce. En este sentido, emplearé enfoques contemporáneos del arte y la filosofía que examinan, de manera no jerárquica, la relación entre los seres humanos, los animales y el medio ambiente.
Durante mi estancia en el sitio, planeo filmar y registrar sonidos del uso agrícola de los jardines, así como de su flora y fauna, desde una perspectiva artística, en diálogo con la investigación y la mitología de la región.
Residencia Chinampas en Movimiento marzo 2025
"In the Undergrowth of the Floating Gardens will engage with these contexts; exploring how the combination of traditional knowledge and modern innovation still shapes the way the local landscape is treated today. The work will investigate the possibilities of combining intercultural and cross-disciplinary experiences to create a lasting understanding of the environment. I am interested in the associative space that emerges between what is seen, felt and known. I will, in this regard, use contemporary approaches from art and philosophy that examine, in a non-hierarchic way, the relationship between humans, animals and the environment. When on site I plan to film and sound record the agricultural use of the gardens and their flora and fauna from an artistic point of view against the backdrop of research and mythology in the region."
Nik Spiv
El Fin del Agua
Nik Spiv - Sound Artist
Chinampas en Movimiento · residency
A visualization of a soundscape
Will power manipulates time
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it rained so much this year
it seems like the earth requested a favor
from the sky and water
so it could slide, glide, and reform
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The ants are rustling
Chinamperos left with wearing raincoats
soon falls the night
A coffee pot is boiling above
the ants are in becoming their craft
thunder shakes the skies
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currents, patterns and happenings
right in front of us,
in each beat of the dragonfly’s wings
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After day of the dead
the little and pure animals started dying —
gasping for air,
even though the abundance of it
was as clear as the smoggy sky
It rains questions.
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Leaving behind a familiar sweat.
Don’t worry about me —
the wind cries after a four-cylinder moto
finally done echoing by
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“He’s probably carrying some hi-tech chick,” she said,
celebrating accuracy with the pop
of a cold little beer bottle
we forgot the sun was setting
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We ride —
a flock of “special individuals”.
A memory of a snowflake in a storm.
A floating oasis in the heart
of a modern ancient city
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The sounds echo inward
until you are no longer the observer, the listener —
but the observed, the listened to
A state of one’s imagination completing the image
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Use headphones for the complete binaural experience.
Below are poems written…
Residencia Chinampas en Movimiento Nov 2025 - Mar 2026
Katya Gardea
"Fragility of an Eco System" and misuse of the area. Instability vrs Permanence of an ever changing environment, It´s living memory and vulnerability. This Document works as an Investigation and documentation and Urban Archeology of fossilized Islands originally used for planting and farming. It hints at its Historic context, permanence, transformation and the planting and farming of Pre-hispanic cultures and a city built on water." Micro Biologies, (Biosphere) Berlin 2014 K.G.B.
Residencia Chinampas en Movimiento Sept 2026
