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It happens sporadically on the Kenyan coast near the Somali border: unknown objects appear in the sky, at night or at dusk, they blink, glow, change colour, follow linear paths, sink into the sea. „Sometimes they came bigger, bigger, bigger and then they come slowly, slowly, thinner, thinner, then they disappear.“ To get to the bottom of this recurring phenomenon, Marc Einsiedel looks at the inhabitants of the Kenyan island of Kiwayu in his video work. In interviews, they talk about what they saw in the sky and sketch their memories in a notebook. They are circular, amoeba-like to star-like shapes, silhouettes of a partly disturbing, partly irrelevant experience. An explanation for these mysterious apparitions can be found above all in the acceptance of the inexplicable – Just A Thing.

In my artistic work, I investigate, analyse and process various aspects of public space and also deal with marginal phenomena in nature in a documentary process: 

by adding, alienating and recycling, I reveal forgotten grievances, document the absurd and trivial or investigate media unknown to me. 

I incorporate found objects from public space in the form of material studies, photographs, social or performative practices or visual materials into other contexts in order to open up new perspectives for 

viewers – this can be partly challenging, partly relaxing – and I focus on conspicuous features, whether natural or social, 

that occur in isolation and examine the interactions between infrastructure and architecture or cultural and capitalist interests and needs. 

At the same time, I illuminate formal structures and aesthetic aspects and, based on investigative, documentary research phases, I develop both installative, 

material-precise and performative works and photographs. These are shown as interventions in public spaces, but also in conceptual exhibitions

Marc Einsiedel * 1983 born in  Flensburg,lives and works in Hamburg, Germany 

Atlelier at Künstlerhaus for Kunst  & Technologie e.V. / Bullerdeich 7 / Hamburg