Houses On Water

Underwater Eruptions / فوران زیر آب
Part 4: Houses on Water / چهار : خانه‌های روی آب

Room For Doubt in collaboration with Apartment Project e.V. – Berlin
With Azade Shahmiri, Mahshid Afzali / Mahoor Mirshakkak, Bahar Aslani, Samaneh Mohseni and Farokh Falsafi

Location: Apartment Project e.V., Hertzbergstr. 13, 12055 Neukölln, Berlin

Opening: Thursday, May 21, 2026, 17:00 – 22:00
Friday & Saturday: May 22 & 23, 2026, 16:00 – 19:00 

The fourth and final part of Underwater Eruptions, titled Houses on Water, touches upon the subject of displacement. Following the past few months of tension and war, we look back at interruptions and disconnections recorded through lenses and audio recorders, acknowledging their limits in capturing fleeting moments and feelings while searching for a place to call home. It explores the duality between the realities of our current locations and the places where our roots lie. These poetic yet often direct approaches leave marks on memory, highlighting the fragility of the collectible amid what is felt and lived.

 

 

Cracks are about time, space, weight, and climate. They are performative means that cause and are caused by changes, movements, and acts. They signify damage, defects, erosion, fragility. But a crack is also a sign of resistance and strength. Like our scars, cracks tell stories about wounds—like the cracks in this personal archive.

Link:
https://vimeo.com/798632221/76d6776149?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

 

 

A collaborative experimental documentary in which the camera, as an attentive observer, shows its own memories and associations related to the multimedia art installation Safe & Sound by Mahoor Mirshakkak, creating a sensual and visual connection between artifacts in the exhibition and the artist’s memories and lived moments outside of the exhibition. The film follows the process of preparing, presenting, and dismantling the exhibition while seeking its visual and sensual origins in the real world.

Mahshid Afzali & Mahoor Mirshakkak, Iran, English with hardcoded English subtitles

Link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QIxTlMFG4R9fHf5waG64PsJ5q-hji83K/view?usp=sharing

 

 

 

 

 

A three-channel sound installation follows sound traces as it moves across contrasting sonic terrains. Drawn from birdsong, the sound shifts in meaning as it travels, echoing through tones that feel at once distant and intimately connected.
It listens to how zones of apparent calm can reverberate elsewhere as unrest and how the quiet of one geography may be sustained by the turbulence of another. Without naming places, the work reflects on how political power circulates through the air as frequency, shaping what is heard and what is silenced.

 

The sound work was originally a sculpturally situated piece taking space in a neighborhood in Stockholm: visually, physically, and aurally, whispering a determined, introspective, and at times humorous inner monologue to passersby.

The sound plays with the familiarity of the metro to guide the audience into the state of mind of the fellow traveler, or enter the inner train of thought offered by the narrator. It invites the listeners to be and move with the sound in a tempo of being attentive and inattentive, present in the new place or lost in the place that has been. 

 

Teaser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XME1UB4pTiI

Sound: https://soundcloud.com/samaneh-mohseni-717600481/i-was-an-expat-myself/s-AJpYqISJi1m?si=2b0d13028d6d4df0aed0a9e90164ebd1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing