Moreth Anhuman

„Moreth Anhuman“

Multimedia Installation 2025/26

Comissioned by and premiered at Musik Installationen Nuremberg, financed by Federal Cultural Foundation Germany

Upcoming exhibitions of new versions:
Moreth Anhuman H1N4 @ Kunsthaus Graz 08.-11.10.2026
Moreth Anhuman H2N3 @ Sehsaal Vienna 06.-12.05.2026

Moreth Anhuman – a typo? A sound error? A cross-species sci-fi fable about communication, intelligence and coexistence by artist Anke Eckardt. Where does self-realization as a concept lead in a world that is not only dominated by humans? The fixation on human rationality has alienated us – from nature, from other forms of life. What could a future look like in which technology and ecology coexist in harmony?

Moreth Anhuman H1N4 is a multi-channel video and sound installation consisting of amorphous inflatables, flexibly arranged in an indoor space. As living entities their bodies physically increase and decrese, they are breathing. Changing their skins they oscillate between paleontological animal cave paintings of mainly destincted species and futuristic animal-like appearances, that are archaic as well as hybrid in their living forms. Simultaneously projection surface and breathing entities, the inflatables shift the barrier between narrator and narrated, viewer and viewee.

Moreth Anhuman H2N3 – one or more series of images on walls and a sound installation relate to each other by representing different facets of non-human beings. In the visual arrangement, the depiction of various skins, furs, and feathers opens up projection surfaces — both for imagined body appearances as well as symbols of cultural projection (Donna Haraway).

Auditively, the artist presents an immersive soundscape that incorporates historical animal recordings (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Martin Ullrich, Interdisciplinary Music Research with a Focus on Human-Animal Studies, Nuremberg) and previously unknown animal sounds that are generated with the help of machine learning. By that, Anke Eckardt moves away from the identity-forming nomenclature of human language toward a novel form of imagined interspecies communication. What is voice, what is language, what is music? Who decides what counts as thinking? A change of perspective that decodes semantics and names.

Artistic Assistance: Antuum / Curator: Marie-Therese Bruglacher

Video Material: Johannes Felder / Video Edit: Anke Eckardt

Premiered: Moreth Anhuman (Part 1): Installation @ Heizhaus Nuremberg (DE)
Opening: May 24, 2025 / Exhibition: May 25 – June 01, 2025 ///
Moreth Anhuman (Part 2): Performance @ Dutzendteich in the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg