During liminal periods of all kinds, social hierarchies may be reversed or temporarily dissolved, continuity of tradition may become uncertain, and future outcomes once taken for granted may be thrown into doubt.
Resulting from atrophy and accumulation, mediated through water, the materiality and shape of the work manifests a resting equilibrium of opposing forces of time.
ANSTO is the site of Australia's only nuclear reactor and the center for Australian nuclear science. In this way, Hoffmann connects and recontextualises nuclear histories with local, postcolonial, environmental racism associated trajectores.
...three six sided dice cut from a block of uranium containg stone and a piece of cedar wood from the nuclear exclusion zone in Chernobyl. The work Muted Seeds...
The analog photo negatives have been repeatedly exposed to radioactive soil samples from the nuclear exclusion zone in chernobyl...
Thus, the tinder mushroom is, so to speak, jointly responsible to enable long journeys and explore new areas and thus contributed as a cultural artifact to the settlement of Europe...
Ipomoea seeds are used by indigenous cultures in rituals to get in touch with the wisdom of nature. The seeds are resistant to high doses of radiation, and in commercial production are irradiated to provoke changes in flower colour...
Nuclear heritage designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe´s offsping
Future Fossil combines an autoradiography created with uranium ore samples with a photogram made with sunlight
"One species for a million surrender yourshelf for plurality."
...a miniature stylized post anthropocentric landscape through carefully composed arrangements of rocks, moss, pruned trees and bushes...
Photo negatives of the marine coral forrest of the Bikini Atoll and blank black and white negatives are double exposed to radioactive samples...
Stick charts were made by the ancient Polynesian sailors who navigated the Pacific Ocean, including the Marshall Islands, by canoe. The charts represent major ocean swell patterns and the ways the islands disrupt those patterns, according to the map-maker’s personal experience. Most stick charts are made from the mid-ribs of coconut fronds...
Negatives showing stick charts were exposed to radioactive material from Enewetak Atoll. Additionally,the photographic paper was exposed to uranium ore...
INFINITE CLOCK
2018
BENT TO INFINITY
2018
BITS OF PARADISE
2018
Totem Habitat is a constantly changingliving sculpture, an artificial neolandscape inhabitated by a colony of firebugs. Discourses such as the nuclear legacy and the responsible handling of the planet and other species inthe age of the Anthropocene are areas of focus in in the work.The Firebugs are known for the visible mutations...
Time Containment I, consists of different sized tubes made from prints on photographic paper and several 3D PLA prints in combination with natural materials such as halves of coconuts. For the tube-like sculptures, analog middle format camera negatives were exposed to radioactive samples...
SHELL OF SEDIMENTED TIME
2018
Photo negatives of the marine coral forrest of the Bikini Atoll are double exposed to radioactive samples. The exposure to the radioactivity leaves white traces on the negative. Thus the invisible radioactivity present at the place gets visible...
2015
60 min 24 h 200 000 years Thanksgiving somewhere near Turkeypoint - A analog lontime exposure showing the view from to the nuclear power plant Turkey Point in the direction of the open sea is overexposed with radioactive...
DARK FOSSILE ABAKUS
2017
SELTENE ERDEN
2016
ATLAS
2017
FOSSIL FUEL
2017
MORIBA ILLUMINE
2017
GREENSEDIMENT
2017
SHELL GAME
2017
NUCIFERA METAMORPHOSIS
2016
BIKINI ATOLL CONTAINMENT II
2016
MATTER
2016
MIRROR EMOTION
2015
BIKINI ATOLL CONTAINMENT I
2015
INVISIBLE IMPRINT DOMARRING
2016
In the work Zwischenwelt, an analogue photograph of a piece of forest before its development was irradiated with radioactive material. Through the irradiation process...
CONTAINMENT
2016
CHRONOS UND AEON
2015
FISSION
2015
ZIRKON KOMPASS
2015
INVISIBLE IMPRINT
2015
FOLIE A PLUSIEUS EDITION
2015
TINDER
2015
UMKEHR
2014
MEMORY
2014
FOLIE A PLUSIEURS
2014
ENCOUNTER
2014
HEILMITTEL
2014
ERZFELD
2014
NUCLEARSOLUTION
2014
TRANSLOCATINGCLOUDS
2014
TIMEPIECEONE
2013
KOINZIDENZ
2013
LEVELUP
2013
MIRRORCLOUD
2013
LR
2013
PARALLEL
2013
AGGREGAT
2013
SETONE
2013
ACIDRAIN
2013
ERTAALE
2012
CAPTURETHEFLAG
2012
SPEKTRAL
2012
FUME
2013
PULSE
2012
DREI
2012
TREE
2012
HELP
2012
DAS NUMEN SONOR
2012
DAS NUMEN MOMENTUM
2012
MADEINCHINA
2012
HEXAEDER
2011
CONDUCTOR
2011
COLORS
2011
ROOMPIANO
2011
HZ
2011
CHRONS UND AEON
2011
FRAGMENTS
2011
DEEPDUETT
2011
DENSITY
2011
JETSTREAM
2011
MONUMENT
2011
PEGSIX
2011
DIGESTINGSCIENCE
2011
MOMENT
2011
DAS NUMEN H2O
2011
DAS NUMEN TRANSFORMATION
2011
ALOOP
2010
DAS NUMEN DAYLIGHT
2010
SPIELUHR
2010
MINUTES
2009
ECHO
2009
PITCHBLENDED
2009