Shaken Grounds, Shifting Skies

Shaken Grounds, Shifting Skies

A short film by Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Victor Jaschke, Peter Kozek, Werner Moebius and Lucie Strecker

THURSDAY 17 JULY 2025
7 PM
BLACK BOX, PALAZZO DIEDO

In the presence of Lucie Strecker, Peter Kozek (artists), and Victor Jaschke (filmmaker)

The screening will be followed by a short talk moderated by Adriana Rispoli, curator at Palazzo Diedo – Berggruen Arts & Culture. The discussion will bring together three members of the Shaken Grounds collective — Lucie Strecker and Peter Kozek (artists), and Victor Jaschke (filmmaker) — in conversation with Edgar Honetschläger, director of AUN – The beginning and the end of all things.

Duration: 34 min
Free entrance until capacity is met

Shaken Grounds, Shifting Skies is a short film that traverses the volatile terrains of Campi Flegrei, Mount Vesuvius, Vulcano Island in Italy, and the retreating Pasterze glacier in Austria, interweaving these landscapes with scenes from the art studio and reflective questions. Through this constellation of film fragments, the work meditates on how seismic shifts in the external environment resonate within the human body and psyche.

Blending myth, history, and contemporary ecological concerns, the film probes the enduring impact of natural disasters on artistic and philosophical thought. As the narrative unfolds, it shifts focus to today’s seismic zones, where tectonic instability is no longer purely natural but increasingly shaped by human activity: climate change, groundwater extraction, mining, and waste.

Created by the artist collective Shaken Grounds, this film investigates how art can register and respond to the deep entanglements between humanity and a destabilized Earth. Shaken Grounds, Shifting Skies offers a poetic journey through landscapes that are at once ancient and contemporary, challenging viewers to reconsider where—and how—we find ground when the very crust beneath us is trembling.

In artistic and scientific dialogue with: Valerio Acocella, Oscar Fernandez, Sabine Folie, Helga Franza, Nicolas Freytag, Sylvia Scheidl, Kaloyan Vasev, VestAndPage, Sandro de Vita and Mauro di Vito

Supported by the Austrian Ministry of European and International Affairs, the Austrian Cultural Forum, Rome, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the office of the Tyrolean State Government, Department of Culture, and the Angewandte Performance Lab, University of Applied Arts Vienna.