Joey Bania
Joey's installation for unda depicts a journey of dissolution and reassemblage in the undulating terrain of Estonia’s bogs. It parallels the club space amidst shifting dimensions, friable reflections, and dilated time scales
Joey Bania is a New Zealand-born, Berlin-based filmmaker and visual artist. With a background in science communication, his film journey began as a cameraperson for natural history and science documentaries for the likes of the BBC, National Geographic, Vice, and The Guardian. His work as a director encompasses documentaries, short films, music videos, installations, and expanded cinema. In 2021, he participated in CPH: LAB and produced the VR short "Oceanic Feeling", which premiered at CPH: DOX 2022 and was screened in Hamburg, London, Montreal, and Venice. His recent cinematography for artist Juliet Carpenter contributed to her 2024 Walters-prize nomination.
Joey’s fascination with the sunken and subterranean – beings, landscapes, and ecologies hidden out of sight and on the fringes finds a perfect subject in Estonia’s unique bog ecosystems. His installation at unda, made in collaboration with Baly Gaudin, traverses the vast moss blankets of the Soomaa bog in the country’s south and charts a dissolution of self, a psychic and physical untethering into an illusory zone of undulating ground, friable reflections, shifting dimensions, and dilated time scales – landscapes familiar to the seasoned raver.
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