Alluvium
Alluvium is a collaboration between Nika Kaiser and Nathan Stickel. Using video projection, field recordings, and sound, both composed and improvised, they create immersive video installations with live elements that are responses and reflections to site-specific details of the natural world’s fluctuating conditions. The geologic phenomenon of Alluvium occurs when loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach for an impermanent period of time. These collaborative works are an exploration of a process of accumulation of tenuous, shifting environmental conditions, the installations serving as a temporal repository for them.