Ingrid Vranken: Omen

Omen is a long-term research project by Ingrid Vranken and Nahuel Cano.
Omen is a service to spaces and their ghosts. It is a sensory exploration of poetry, frequencies, and vibrations.

The Western worldview describes time as linear, and as individuals growing up within this worldview, we experience time this way. We understand the dominance of linear time as a (colonial) violence. However, within quantum physics, indigenous worldviews, spiritual practices, and certain branches of philosophy, time is described as thick, layered, circular, or branching off into different timelines. Can our bodies and minds experience these other possibilities of time? And what does that do to our understanding of the world, the other, and the actions we can take in life? Can we hear the possible futures whispering to us, making it possible for everyone to be an oracle?

During the residency at Onassis AiR Ingrid will be working on their own. They’ll be exploring synthesis, capturing frequencies, and writing micro-stories; a procedure that condenses experiences, dreams, and fictions into a few sentences that might operate as an oracular induction.