Tides of Memories(ToM) - The Other Time I Drowned is a partly fictional, partly fact-based being that dreams of becoming water. It is disguised as a real-time audiovisual installation that speaks from the water’s perspective. ToM dreams of the migrational routes of water but fails to become it. She drowns and becomes another.

Through the work, water becomes imaginary, and we create an act of dreaming, mimicking an imagination foreseen to open something that is not ours – should it be the air, the breath or the horizon? The work explores the interplay between humans, machines, and ecologies.

The collaborative artwork invites the audience to journey through ToM's dreams and nightmares. Set in a speculative world, the machine grapples with its identity and is exposed to memories left in the water.

https://zkm.de/de/ausstellung/2024/08/tides-of-memories-the-other-time-i-drowned

Creative technology: Alex Wenger (https://ato.vision/crew/alex-wenger) Sound Design: Sevki Argalioglu