"Remain Calm" was first shown at the Kunstverein in Göttingen in March 2019. In this project, Nile Koetting imagines the time after the flood, after the rising waters have gently infiltrated the museum, leaving the role of caring for works and people to the technologies of "smart homes". The community comes together, facing the singularities that constitute it and the capacity for unity that is thus made possible. During the course of routine exercises for an emergency situation, time is suspended and a sense of rite resurfaces.
The art of Nile Koetting (born in 1989 in Kanagawa, Japan) is an art of fluid landscapes, resonating here with the master painters of water, air and wind in twelfth and thirteenth-century China. It gives form to atmospheres permeated by images in constant transformation. A subtle dramaturgy weaves intricate links, welcoming the collaboration of other artists and the presence of visitors. Miriam Stoney's writing provides narrative for the work, which Nozomu Matsumoto's soundtrack activates in real time. Coming forth from different horizons, the performers each in turn introduce the languages of gestures that they embody.
—— Marcella Lista, Curator