A-RE (Arti REspiratio)

An interactive luminous underwater creature

at the Copenhagen Light Festival winter 2024

& at Aarhus Festuge in the summer of 2024

Arti Respiratio (A-RE), is an interactive luminous underwater creature, a kind of jellyfish. A-RE is not doing well in the cold Danish waters and needs the audience’s warm breath to get its colors and pulse back. The Gulf Stream has brought it here from its habitat, one of the world’s warm oceans.

A-RE is a tech-trash creature that has created itself by combining and assembling redundant and discarded electronics and technology that have been thrown into the oceans.

See a short instagram movie here

Idé and execution: Arthur Maria Steijn • Creative development: Frederik Lauenborg

Thank you for your support and help in Copenhagen: Christianshavns Lokaludvalg, Copenhagen Light Festival, Poul Andersen, Simon Christensen, Theo Bjerg Steijn

In Aarhus: Micha Schaarup, Ida Lundø and the beautiful people at Aarhus Festuge