The Absolumont collective brings together long-standing artists working across sound, moving image, performance, and experimental technologies to create environments in which memory, perception, and presence may be experienced as living and unstable processes. Rooted in improvisation and intermedia practice, the collective approaches art not as a fixed object but as a field of relations, where sound, image, gesture, and audience participation remain in continuous dialogue.
Our work explores the threshold between conscious and unconscious experience, combining
analog and digital processes, realtime systems, and pre recorded materials. Rather than
presenting linear narratives, we develop experimental environments where meaning emerges
through resonance, circulation, and shared attention. Images are approached not simply as
representations but as active agents capable of carrying emotional, symbolic, and perceptual
intensities.
Within Absolumont, technology is not treated as spectacle or instrument alone, but as a sensual and interpretative interface through which human presence may be reconsidered. Feedback systems, interactive camera processes, and evolving audiovisual structures allow the work to remain open, responsive, and continually transforming.
The collective draws from ritual practices, animistic imagination, improvisational music, and contemporary experimental media to create spaces where multiple temporalities coexist. Experimental tarot readings, live activation, and direct encounters with visitors extend the work beyond exhibition into shared experience and informal exchange.
The sound and visual material of installations emerges from either performances or compositions developed in relation to the temporal and experiential framework through which lived memory, environmental resonance, and collective attention are translated into a continuous audiovisual flux.
Through these processes, the Absolumont collective seeks to cultivate spaces of listening,
imagination, and encounter, where reality may be explored not as certainty but as an evolving negotiation between bodies, memories, technologies, and the unseen forces that move through them.
POP UP Installation! Saturday 11th of April 2026 11h-16h 5 Austurstræti, 5. hæd, 101 Reykjavik
Exploring reality through experimental narration, this installation takes the form of a multichannel environment combining realtime and pre recorded video and sound. Ómun operates as a field in which conscious and unconscious memories are translated into a continuous video flux, in constant interaction with the music that both generates and is shaped by it.
The sound material is drawn from six recorded performances developed between 17 and 22 February 2026, in relation to the February 17 2026 solar eclipse. These sessions establish a temporal framework for the work, situating it at the intersection of lived experience, ritual attention, and environmental resonance.
The installation unfolds within a large, darkened space structured for free circulation. Viewers are invited to move through the environment, inhabit it over time, and engage informally with members of the collective, allowing for direct exchange and shared presence within the work.
Through feedback loops, interactive camera fluxes, and layered image processes, the installation examines the construction of a realtime self, where perception, memory, and transformation remain in continuous negotiation.
Experimental animistic tarot readings and live performances are activated within the space, extending the installation into a performative and interpretative environment.
The installation also exposes the internal logic of an emerging musical instrument, conceived as a hybrid system combining digital and analog processes, and approached as a sensual and perceptual interface.