film/video
Ocean Cage

2024, digital, colour, 54'

Ocean Cage, Tianzhuo Chen and Siko Setyanto, performance at HAU Berlin

Rooted in the intricate yet affective narration of Lamalera village in Indonesia, Ocean Cage explores the entanglement of the whale, the fisherman, and the ancestor. In the encounter with the sperm whale, the interrelationships of a complex ecosystem and the basis of an interspecies solidaristic coexistence manifest themselves. A spiritual source and connection with the ancestors also emerge, interwoven like the links of a chain where a beginning and an end can no longer be determined. Audiences are invited to immerse themselves into the tender, still, afflicted ideological rift, to breathe and dissolve into the porous and leaking bodies of water, mammals, fisherfolk, ballads, breezes and spirits, reconsidering the interdependent relationships across species and how we can (re)understand the more-than-human justice.