In Providenza, they work on Laser Floating Time Zone, a research, shoot, and edit for a multimedia installation on the materiality of time based off 90 hours of footage they gathered during the Enter the Hyperscientific Residency at The Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in 2022. There, they worked with physicists Arnaud Magret and Yong Liu to grow olivine single crystals using the Laser Floating Zone method.
Joel Kuennen
Joel is an art critic, curator, editor, and artist. They received an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2010). Their art practice investigates human relationships to the Earth as a means of understanding social constructs that can interrupt the extractive and exploitative ways in which we engage with this planet. Kuennen's site-specific land art interventions use autochthonous clay to create artifacts that become anthromes to help visitors consider our place in deep time — the complex matrix of past, present, and future. Working with the earth, with clay, means working with and through time.
For more information on they work, visit Joel's website here.
