Fluid spaces

New work and research into fluid ways of being. What does it mean to ‘queer’ a space? With multiple render techniques and projection mapping into site specific places of everyday life as public toilets, transformed into speculative swimming pool environments.

Still Fluid Spaces, Natatorium Cranbrook (US), 2021

As Jack Halberstam argues; the swimming pool is an environment within the body becomes weightless and hovers on the surface of a submerged world; it’s a site where the body becomes buoyant, transformed by a new element, and yet must struggle, overcome by the new and potentially hostile environment. What lies beneath the sparkling surface of chlorine- enhanced blue, that might take and invites us to a threshold to contemplate jumping into air bubbles and fluid spaces?

The mission is to share and exchange ideas on fluid public spaces with divers queer communities, transposed into a visual language to be shared.

Still Fluid Spaces shot at Natatorium / projection mapping public bathroom, Cranbrook 2021
Fluid Spaces, digital color print on polar gloss metallic
17 x 25 inch, Merel Noorlander, 2021
Fluid Spaces, digital color print on polar gloss metallic
17 x 25 inch, Merel Noorlander, 2021

Video shot at the Natatorium of Cranbrook (US), with drone and waterproof equipment. Underwater camerawork in collaboration with Nelly Kate, drone flight Zhuo Chen.