Statement

Through radical listening, I work with forces such as time, material, and atmosphere as they shape experience and relations within specific environments. I place my body within situations where these conditions come under pressure, using intuition, duration, and embodied attention as primary tools.

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My practice unfolds through sustained, research-driven, and site-responsive engagement with particular conditions, often grounded in ecological and social contexts. Across landscapes, materials, and language,
I remain with tension rather than resolve it, allowing situations to emerge through attention and restraint.

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Working across time-based media, I approach the body as both instrument and site — attuned to shifts in rhythm, stillness, and instability. Silence and duration operate as active conditions through which perception shifts.

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Rather than producing fixed outcomes, I am interested in how something latent surfaces over time — how memory, material, and environment operate in relation. The work holds open states of uncertainty, inviting an attention that does not turn away, but remains with complexity and change.

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In this way, the work offers situations in which perception recalibrates, and where relations between human and non-human worlds are experienced as entangled and continuously forming.

 

Bigraphy

Ina Otzko (b. 1972, Norway) is a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, moving image, photography, sound, sculpture, installation, and text.

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Her practice is grounded in sustained attention, intuitive processes, and site-responsive research, exploring how forces move through and shape space, and how underlying structures become perceptible through embodied attention. She works within specific environments — from exposed landscapes to constructed systems — where subtle gestures and stillness render perceptible dynamics such as gravity, weather, infrastructure, memory, and atmospheric change.

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Time in her work is layered rather than linear. Geological and climatic processes intersect with language, materials, and the body, creating situations where vulnerability, belonging, and relation emerge as shifting conditions. Rather than resolving tension, the work remains open, allowing uncertainty and interdependence to unfold across human and more-than-human worlds.

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She holds an MA in Image & Communication and an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an MA in Sound Studies from Universität der Künste Berlin.

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Ina Otzko is co-founder of Arctic Pavilion and ArtBase Helgeland 66N