Swim Team Practice

For the 2022 KHM Open Access Collective is presenting a new work using KHM's new swimming pool, situated in the basement next to the Aula. The act of team practice is shown as an underground utopian praxis of resistance. The collective training body hurts. It is vulnerable. Breathing in synchronicity, it doggedly continues to strive for perfect output in our shared situation of deficiency. Preparing for things to come, adapting, touching the ground, paying attention to what is, never projecting, it is asking the question: Are we allowed to demand from the system something that already exists in us? A site-specific installation developed collectively for the KHM summer exhibition. For this project, an otherwise unused atrium in the basement was declared the ""pool"" of the Hochschule, and in this very dry swimming pool, highly motivated exercises for swimming competitions were carried out together. A simultaneously humorous and bitter commentary on difficult working conditions in the last year of the pandemic. Developed as part of the ""ctrl-space live: Access Lab"" seminar, summer term 2022, led by Christian Sievers Concept: Access Collective (Cao Bijun, Valentina Giraldo Sanchez, Clara Kulemeyer, Inna Lipovets, Ting-Chun Liu, Christian Sievers)