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stretching exercise to feel climate change: an attempt on weathering the waterfall [unedited, full performance], 2025

This film is part of the audio-visual installation, made together with performance artist Ula Liagaitė, as part of the DIPLOMA25, within the framework of the exhibition ‘Take a Detour', curated by the students of the MA in Transdisciplinary Studies at Zurich University of the Arts. The images consist of large rock formations of Hierve el Agua (Spanish for 'the water boils'). It is a set of natural travertine rock formations in San Lorenzo Albarradas, Oaxaca, Mexico. They resemble cascades of water. The video material was conceived during a research trip to Oaxaca in the beginning of the year

CONCEPT & PERFORMANCE: Ula Liagaitė

CINEMATOGRAPHY, CAMERA & EDIT: Antto Logy

SOUND: Antto Logy & Werner Lambertz

2025

Final Stretching Excercises

Sitting on a chair and not knowing how to get up

sitting on a chair after having heard bad news

sitting on a chair, because legs don’t hold no more

sitting on a chair and realizing something

Sitting on chair for a long time

sitting on a chair and listening

sitting on a chair and being told something

sitting on a chair and learning

sitting on a hard chair

Sitting with your legs crossed

sitting with your legs uncrossed

sitting on a chair and eating

sitting on a chair and watching a movie

sitting on a chair and working on the computer

sitting on a chair and reading a manual

sitting on a seat in a bus

sitting on a seat on an airplane, reserving your seat for an extra fee (and priority boarding)

sitting on a chair and doing nothing

sitting on a chair that is a set of many the same looking chairs, inside a building, that also looks like any other building

sitting on a chair ‘just because’

sitting on a chair when not at all tired

sitting on a chair to watch a six hours long theater piece

falling asleep while sitting on a chair, falling asleep and falling off the chair.

Sitting on a chair because sitting on the ground is bad

sitting on chair because the ground is dirty

sitting on a chair in clean clothes

sitting on a chair in white clothes

sitting on a white chair

sitting on a chair in church

sitting on a chair in a gallery

sitting on a chair in a museum

sitting in a chair in a university

sitting on a chair and not standing up… for anything

sitting on a chair and seeing your friends siblings

lovers strangers animals neighbours getting hurt

sitting on a chair and witnessing

sitting on a chair anxiously

sitting on a chair guilty

sitting on a chair because it’s safe

sitting on a chair because you learnt it well

sitting on a chair that your gran grandfather bought

sitting on a chair and remembering that you did not meet any of your grandfathers, cause they both died from alcoholism

sitting on a chair wondering if this is the last time

sitting on a chair because you learnt it well

sitting a chair cause you have a chair to sit on

sitting on a chair made by suffering

sitting on chair and feeling the climate change

sitting on a chair and feeling the crisis

sitting on a chair paralysed by grief

sitting on a chair sick from grief

sitting on chair and making a plan

sitting on a chair somewhere else

sitting on a chair as it gets hot there

sitting on a chair watching people leave here

sitting on a chair being forced to stay

sitting on a chair cause there is no way out.

Sitting on a chair and not feeling pain

sitting on a chair since before being able to walk

being taught to sit on a chair

being good at sitting on a chair

sitting on a chair and pressing buttons

sitting on a chair and thinking about people that press buttons

sitting on a chair pressing buttons, that change the course of rivers and universe

sitting on a chair as an excuse

sitting on a chair and having lots of power on your hands

sitting on the chair while your mind does somersaults and fingers

well…

sitting on a chair and watching someone’s mouth

sitting on a chair but very lightly

sitting on a chair and pretending to be reading

sitting on a chair and chewing gum

sitting on a chair that has chewing gum stuck under it by someone who was sitting on the same chair before

sitting on a chair and never ever again allowing fingers to wander under the chair sitting on a chair and peeling potatoes…

Sitting on a a chair that is unstable

sitting on a chair by the window and looking out

sitting on a chair very still

sitting on a chair and watching how everything around changes

sitting on a chair and noticing that nothing is ever completely still

sitting on a chair and watching life pass by

sitting on a chair forever

sitting on a chair and getting older

sitting on a chair and causing no trouble.