SOFT WATERS

Xenoangel

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Installations
Electronic Language International Festival

Soft waters – France / England / Serbia

Soft Waters is a real-time interactive artwork that uses the accessible language of videogames alongside eco-feminist writings in an experimental and playful way. The artwork follows the story of a water goddess on a lake in the mouth of an ancient volcano. The story is set between the moment the volcano went dormant and the afterparty of a solar punk eco-rave, sometime in the near future. The project is an exploration of non-linear time through the circulation of watery bodies.

BIO

As an artist duo Xenoangel, Marija and Sam explore new relationships between humans and non-humans. Their practice is based on world building and their work intersects disciplines such as real-time generative animation, videogames, painting, physical installation, writing, and music. 

Camphor Flame on Pedestal
Michael Bühler-Rose’s practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as “theatrical cultural realities” and “feats of representation through place and displacement.” Bühler-Rose uses western painting styles: still lifes, landscapes, portraits, to play with previous political notions of Hindu and Indic aesthetics: representations of gods and goddesses, incense, flowers, or the saris or bharatnaytam outfits worn by young women of European descent who live in a Hindu community in Florida.

Tannhäuser
“Tannhäuser, a minnesinger from the court of Hermann, Landgrave of Thuringia, has been at the Venusberg for some time now and is the lover of the goddess of love. In the midst of a bacchanal, the singer recalls his earlier life among humanity. He decides to leave Venus and her heavenly kingdom to return to earth. Venus tries to hold him back. But only when he calls to the Virgin Mary does the Venusberg let him go.[…]”