Bottled Up is an immersive installation that explores the complex and entangled relationship between plastic and water, revealing how these substances flow through broader systems of capitalism, colonialism, and consumerism. Centered around the apparition of an unexpected messenger that embodies both plastic and water, the installation draws audiences into a layered world that is at once playful and unsettling, blending humor, ritual and visual excess.
Bottled Up invites audiences to confront their own complicity in a culture of overconsumption and disposability, while reflecting on what it means to seek meaning in a world shaped by the synthetic and ephemerality.
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During the House Guest residency at The Grey Space, the artists will develop and prototype Bottled Up, a multi-screen interactive audiovisual installation in which a plastic water bottle comes to life—speaking, singing, and moving. The residency serves as a production phase, bringing together the core collaborators to experiment with the installation’s spatial, sonic, choreographic, and interactive dimensions ahead of its public presentation on September 5.
Nullshima Studio is a creative production studio based in the Netherlands, led by interdisciplinary artists Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy. Working at the intersection of immersive art and contemporary audiovisual storytelling, the studio creates experimental installations that invite critical reflection on today’s most urgent cultural and ecological issues.
Specializing in multimedia experiences – ranging from large-scale video installations to interactive digital works – Nullshima Studio explores themes such as cultural heritage, identity, climate change, artificial intelligence, digital culture, and decolonization.
Their projects have been exhibited in solo shows at Hošek Contemporary (Germany) and Pier-2 Art Center (Taiwan), and featured at leading festivals and institutions like International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands Film Festival, DOK Leipzig, GIFF – Geneva International Film Festival, Viborg Kunsthal, LINZ FMR and Biennale Chroniques.
This program is part of The Grey Space’s residency program House Guests in which we facilitate the interaction between a work, the space and the audience. Each House Guest has a week-long mini-residency, culminating in a public event.
This edition of House Guests is supported by the municipality of The Hague.
