object earth by Nima Bahrehmand and Laurids Andersen Sonne

Object Earth is a collaborative media arts project by the S3026 collective (Nima Bahrehmand and Laurids Sonne) and phenomenologist Michael Marder, offering a stratigraphic investigation into the dimensions of human extractive practices. Beginning with a contemplation of the ecological ambiguity of a wind turbine graveyard in Wyoming, the project expands to explore wind farming, cattle ranching, and oil drilling, considering the vertical plane of extraction—from beneath the earth’s crust to the atmosphere and beyond. Tracking residue, fragments, and mutable materials, Object Earth examines how these elements form new constellations of material relations that engage both conceptually and poetically. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, the project deepens understanding of the planet's interconnected systems, evolving continuously through media installations, performances, and other forms that encourage new insights and transformations in our relationship with the environment.

Artist Bio

Nima Bahrehmand’s نی‌مآ بَهْرِه‌مَنْد artistic research is a transformative journey that explores bodies, archives, and places that have been suppressed and desertified by political, economic, and technological progress. Through their digital voyage, Nima creates new worlds that breathe life into the desertified, relocating them from their initial setting to a new environment or platform. This approach allows for the creation of new stories, reimagining the narratives of the suppressed. Working with emergent media, Nima challenges the status quo of technology, creating discursive ties that redefine and rework data, and unravel how the databasing apparatuses serve the dominance of the Global North, extracting and manipulating the dignity of the Global South. Their artworks have been included in exhibitions and venues, including Digital Native as part of the Tbilisi Oxygen Biennial, Tbilisi, Georgia; ISEA, International Symposium for Electronic Arts, Barcelona; Denver Digerati, Denver; Kandovan Gallery, Tehran, Iran; Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin; Marres, Maastricht, Netherland; Kiosk, Ghent, Belgium; VAC, Austin and AG Gallery, Tehran; among others. Nima also published some of their writing in outlets such as MAST, the Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, xCoAx, Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Porto; Institute of Network Culture, Amsterdam; and RAI, the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

Laurids Andersen Sonne is a Danish interdisciplinary artist. His work spans 16mm film, video, installation, sculpture, performance, and socially engaged art projects. Laurids sees art as a catalyst for reflection on being, a way to explore, entwine and unfold serious topics.
Laurids’ moving image work has screened at festivals around the world, including San Francisco International Film Festival, Montreal Underground Film Festival, ICDOCS, Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, Antimatter, Process Film Festival, and Fracto Experimental Film Encounter.