How do likes, shares, and hashtags shape our relationship with nature?
The interactive exhibition series #meinfluss examines digital image cultures – and asks how our online interactions influence collective perceptions of landscape, climate, and environmental policy.
With his work Innkiesel (Erratic Block #6), conceptual artist Alexander Steig brings this reflection into physical space. In a single-channel closed-circuit video installation, a modest pebble from the banks of the Inn becomes a meditative image: over the course of 24 hours, the "Erratic Block" slowly rotates on its axis – almost imperceptibly, yet continuously. The live transmission onto a black screen generates a subtle tension between stillness and movement, surface and depth.
Steig’s work explores temporality, identity, and transformation: the river stone becomes a vessel of geological history and cultural attribution – an object that resists quick readability. Inspired by Heraclitus’ notion that “everything flows,” the piece reflects on the fragile balance between singularity and interchangeability, between permanence and dissolution.
Innkiesel is part of an ongoing artistic engagement with river landscapes – beginning at the Isar in Munich, continuing at the Leine in Hanover, and further expanded at the fjord in Akureyri, Iceland. In Wasserburg, the pebble enters a new dialogue: with the Inn, the exhibition space, and the digital realm of platform culture.