Absolumont Collective – absolumont.com / .net / .art
Ásdís Sif (IS) @asdissifstudio
Nico Guerrero (FR) @nic0guerrer0
Réza Kalfane (FR) @rezakalfane
Tristan Zand (CH) @zdrilx
About the Collective
The Absolumont collective brings together long-standing artists working across sound, moving image, performance, and experimental technologies to create environments in which memory, perception, and presence may be experienced as living and unstable processes. Rooted in improvisation and intermedia practice, the collective approaches art not as a fixed object but as a field of relations, where sound, image, gesture, and audience participation remain in continuous dialogue.
Our work explores the threshold between conscious and unconscious experience, combining analog and digital processes, realtime systems, and pre recorded materials. Rather than presenting linear narratives, we develop experimental environments where meaning emerges through resonance, circulation, and shared attention. Images are approached not simply as representations but as active agents capable of carrying emotional, symbolic, and perceptual intensities.
Within Absolumont, technology is not treated as spectacle or instrument alone, but as a sensual and interpretative interface through which human presence may be reconsidered. Feedback systems, interactive camera processes, and evolving audiovisual structures allow the work to remain open, responsive, and continually transforming.
The collective draws from ritual practices, animistic imagination, improvisational music, and contemporary experimental media to create spaces where multiple temporalities coexist. Experimental tarot readings, live activation, and direct encounters with visitors extend the work beyond exhibition into shared experience and informal exchange.
The sound and visual material of installations emerges from either performances or compositions developed in relation to the temporal and experiential framework through which lived memory, environmental resonance, and collective attention are translated into a continuous audiovisual flux.
Through these processes, the Absolumont collective seeks to cultivate spaces of listening, imagination, and encounter, where reality may be explored not as certainty but as an evolving negotiation between bodies, memories, technologies, and the unseen forces that move through them.