Vi | Vi(vien) Reichel

Another market stand will be hosted by Vi Reichel (@vi.visualarts ) with her project 𝗚𝗶𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗽. Vi sells A2 prints and A3 posters exploring the relation between birds, digital networks, and internet culture. Birds are fascinating creatures that coexist with us in our everyday lives and constantly inter-act with us. One of the oldest scientific practices that interprets the nature, movements, and behavior of birds as predictive factors is Ornithomanteia. Birds were the messengers of the gods. Today, research is being conducted on the Internet of Animals, on their sixth sense, to help us predict possible future events on Earth. But what significance do birds have today, and how do technologies influence birds and vice versa? The work-in-progress project 𝗚𝗶𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗽 explores the relation between birds, digital networks, and Internet culture. Birds form flocks, share a collective motion and can migrate across the globe like online mobs. They share the sky with us and position themselves between us, our devices, and the satellite from which we receive the internet signal. Their bodies cary our information. The project will result in a film in collaboration with the composer Baz Laarakkers (@bazlaarakkers ) in the future and is currently being presented in the form of posters with still images from the first recordings. The posters show birds in their relation und connection to information transfer, signals and us. You can buy the posters on the 19th of December 2025 between 15-20 o’clock at @focusarnhem ! #yamiichi #poster #fleamarketstyle #posterdesigns #graphicdesign #internetofanimals

Something very special happened last weekend! I became one of the winners of the @plonsfilmfestival DOK Academy 2025 with my experimental documentary concept about the Dutch culture of ice skating to develop my idea further. It has been an emotional journey and I am so grateful that I can continue it! My heart and soul are in this film! 🖤 Many people have already accompanied me on this journey this year, and I would like to thank them for that! Thank you for always believing in me and my idea, supporting me and helping me to move it forward! Thank you, Wytzia Soetenhorst, for saying to me after the workshop at the DOK Academy: „I believe in you!“ Many thanks to all DOK Academy participants for this inspiring time we spent together and for your questions, given assignments and feedback! Many thanks to all the skaters I’ve been in contact with, interviewed and filmed already! Thank you @luuk_productions for your support and your boat in Fryslân! Thank you @bazlaarakkers for all your love, help, support and encouragement for the project! Thank you to @plonsfilmfestival and @omropfryslan for your support next year! 📸 @gerben_v Thank you for capturing this special moment! @dat.artez.nl @artezuniversityofthearts @aki_art_and_design #documentaryfilm #filmfestivals #filmproduction #fryslân #documentary #documentaryfilmmaking

We are alive within a big soup of ongoing processes weaving into one another. Some of these processes, like the budding leaves in spring, are visible, local and are quite easily understandable by the human mind. Some other processes are more challenging to our mind, like imagining the currents flowing in a large body of water. Whilst imaging the currents is already a bit more tasking on the imagination, it is still quite possible to imagine the currents and at the very least you can take a look at the water and put your hand in to see if you can feel the currents moving. This makes these smaller processes imaginable and in this way accessible. All these smaller processes are part of the bigger picture: the unimaginably large, non-local and ancient or destined to be ancient processes, like tectonic plate movement, the solar system or all the plastic ever produced. Because of the deeply opaque nature of these processes, “Everything Shimmers Along it’s Fault Lines” aimed to develop a methodology of mapping the fault lines, ghost waves and phases through image and sound in order to connect the dots and learn how to navigate and invoke empathy for hyper-objects in increasingly complex times. Our special thanks are going to @simresidency , @culturemoveseurope , @artezuniversityofthearts and @aki_art_and_design , The Faculty of Earth Science of the University of Iceland, @mathis_blache , Pall Einarsson, Marcel Laarakkers, Gabriela Bunge, Petra Van de Schepop, Mario Bunge, Kimbo & Thomas, Prismo and all artist sharing a living space with us during our time in Iceland. ~ Open Space at @simresidency , March 2024 #artinstallation #audiovisualart #artistinresidence #simresidency #icelandscape #reykjavik #artscience #scienceart #research #fieldrecording #multiscreen

A small glimpse into the piece 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙮 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙤 𝙄 𝙚𝙣𝙙? which premiered at @uitnachtarnhem 2026. Dance and Choreography @vi_reichel_ Composition @luan_conzett Projection @vi.visualarts Makeup @ghalandarinazanin Hair and tape art @stan.slav.v , @polligraff Interface @_____bram Location @rozetarnhem Documentation Sophie Programmed by @rozetarnhem and @uitnachtarnhem Arnhem, The Netherlands 2026 #uitnachtarnhem #interactive #skatinginthearts #dancetechnology #artisticrollerskating

On Friday, 30th of January 2026, the dance piece 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙮 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙤 𝙄 𝙚𝙣𝙙? will premiere at @rozetarnhem as part of @uitnachtarnhem . The performance 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙮 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙤 𝙄 𝙚𝙣𝙙? explores the fluid conceptual boundaries of the body through artistic roller skating. Using an EMG (Electromyography) interface, the dancer records the electric activity of her muscles during the performance. These electric signals are sent to other muscles in her body, triggering new contractions and causing an alienating sensation and involuntary muscle movements. This alternating conversation of electric impuses raises the questions of what it might mean to be in control of your own body. The dancer’s movements are determined by the roller skates, putting her in a floating state that redefines her body awarness. Behind her is an interactive audio-visual projection that responds to her movements and sounds, allowing her body to drift between physical and digital space. She begins to embody the conditions of a cyborg by merging body, technology, and perception. The performance invites the audience to rethink human materiality, the echo of agency, and the concept of the human self. Premiere on 30-01-2026 21:50 and 22:30 o’clock at @rozetarnhem as part of @uitnachtarnhem Soundtrack by @luan_conzett Film stills by @van_battum #techart #rollerskating #projection #dance #interactive

WEBBED FEET | The Meinerswijk nature reservate in the Netherlands is an area of coming and going, of space appearing and disappearing in time, which never completely vanishes.How can we as short-term-living beings relate to a space which is always moving in different scales? In order to emerge to this very dynamic space, we created a speculative sonic world based on field-recordings of this particular area close to Arnhem, the Netherlands. Listen with us and immerse yourself into your imagination. Explore your attention and curiosity freely during listening! Meinerswijk Nature Reservate, The Netherlands 2025 Speculative Sonic World 15 min Podcast Cooperation with @jurre.98 and @soo.tudio_ Mixing and Field Recording Support @bazlaarakkers ArtEZ University of Arts Full length: /Webbed-Feet #speculativefiction #podcast #sonicart #fieldrecording #darkecology #speculativeecology #deeplistening #listening #environmentalphilosophy

Bursting Clouds is an invitation to look further than the outside layer of storm to embrace all the chaos, vulnerability and playfulness. An interdisciplinary performance in which I hope to bring the audience closer to nature and let them reflect on their own perspective of humanity and storm. Created by @lolavanrumpt Videography by @vi.visualarts Composition by @bazlaarakkers Danced by @joeydekoning @lolavanrumpt Supported by the Janivo Stichting and @delftfringefestival

O M I T ▪️ A selection of stills from the short film OMIT - the story of a human seeking for the feeling of being alive, immersed in noise and stimuli within a forest where organic and simulated vibrations merge in a contained space. Directed and written @vi.visualarts Actor @lucius_0504 DOP @willemhnn Music and Sound @bazlaarakkers AD @timmeyart Assistance June And thanks a lot for your help Mars! #shortfilm #sciencefiction #experimentalfilm #filmmaking #cinematography #benorki #dark #shortfilmmaking #filmmaker #filmphotography

Understanding the different temporalities contained in the world has the potential to create an awareness 🖤 Thank you for this wonderful cooperation and these images @van_battum ! #largeformat #portrait #portraitphotography #portraitmood #victorianfashion #victorianstyle #1920sfashion #history #analogphotography #analogfilm #filmphotography #largeformatphotography #largeformatcamera #analog

My path to becoming an artist? After 12 years of professional figure skating, 6 years of contemporary skating and 6 years of studying geosciences, I am now on my long and intensive journey to become an artist. Sometimes when people ask me what exactly I do, I find it hard to explain because it’s not so easy and simple to answer this question for them and also for myself. Who am I? My interests are wide-ranging, my experiences are varied and my artistic practice is still growing. I am Vivien Reichel (she/her), but everyone calls me Vi now! I’m a performative and visual (science-)artist, choreographer and researcher currently based in the Netherlands. After completing my Bachelor of Science in Physical Geography at the University of Leipzig, where I specialized in Earth System Data Science, I began my studies in Moving Image at @aki_art_and_design | @artezuniversityofthearts in Enschede 2024. My praxis fuses scientific fascination with artistic research, utilizing my background in contemporary ice dance and multimedia in an attempt to blur the boundaries between art and (geo)science. Within my praxis I approach my artistic research through a transdisciplinary lens creating a personal entrance point. In my near future, I aim to delve into more personal topics, exploring my background, interests, and identity through my films. By addressing these themes, I seek to answer questions both for myself and for my audience, whether from a deeply personal perspective or through the stories of other characters and individuals portrayed. In the end, it’s not about who I am to you, but who I am to me. Maybe I don’t fit into categories, but maybe that’s my way of exploring, understanding and creating. I’m not a scientist, I’m not a dancer, I’m not a figure skater, I’m not a filmmaker, but I am an artist. Photo by @andreavanbattum #artist #artistoninstagramm #becominganartist #becomeanartist #artschool #filmmakers #artisticresearch #choreographer #figureskating #contemporaryskating #contemporarydance #transdisciplinary #identity

The north-east wind stretches the land of vastness in its infinity of the visible horizon. Part 3/3. Somewhere in Iceland, 2024 #wideangle #wideanglephotography #icelandnature #icelandadventure #landscapephotography #icelandphotography #vast #ecologyart #ecology #nonhuman #explorer #vastnessofnature #bigformat

The north-east wind stretches the land of vastness in its infinity of the visible horizon. Part 2/3. Somewhere in Iceland, 2024 #icelandnature #icelandphotography #icelandscape #outdoorphotography #landscape #landscapephoto #icelandtrip #artistinresidency #simresidency #outdoorart #outdoorartist