Strokkur

From the outset, the objective was to craft something from nothing within a neutral, unknown landscape. We collected images and sounds rather than producing them. The camera, the microphone and the compact amplifier acted as instruments that take away and then return. We established a rule: the sound should not illustrate the image, and the image should not absorb the sound. Less than a hundred kilometres from Reykjavik, the Icelandic geyser Strokkur revealed itself. For three days we observed and heard the internal dynamics of the crevice: boiling water erupting every seven minutes and the thermal shock amid an atmosphere of -18 degrees.