Testing the Membranous Boundaries (2025)

audio installation | video | sculptures | print

with: Ingrid Bjørnaali & Maria Simmons

Testing the Membranous Boundaries is an audio visual collaboration that explores the embodiment and translation of peatland knowledge through blending physical engagement with digital interpretations.

As part of their collaboration Bjørnaali, Simmons and Lanzmaier have visited peat bogs in Finland, Estonia, Norway and Canada. Their exhibition at Lydgalleriet juxtaposes a generative sound installation, moving image and sculpture into various combinations, offering alternative perspectives and interpretations of the sites.

Through recordings of the landscapes they find and interpret naturally created monuments like dead, standing trees held in place by the mires, and portals that connect past and present, the bubbles on the surface, and the subterranean world. Sculptures, sound and photogrammetry based methods of digital gathering, depict sites that form new virtual spaces, seeking a re-mystification and a non-quantifiable approach to peatlands. 

Sound algorithm done in collaboration with Paul Gründorfer. Testing the Membranous Boundaries was organised as part of BEK opening Week 2025 and exhibited at Lydgalleriet in Bergen, Norway. Part of New Perspectives for Action – a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. Supported by Arts Council Norway, Canada Council for the Arts, BEK and UKAI Projects.