Water - Vocal, Endangered by Ruri (2007): The work is an interactive multimedia installation with multiple video projections and audio. The installation was shown exhibited for the first time at the exhibition Falling Water at Reykjavik Art Museum, Kjarvalsstadir. Several video images of three waterfalls are projected onto an installation of transparent canvases, while the recorded “voices” of the waterfalls is playing. The visitor influences the audio when moving around in the installation. One of these waterfalls has now disappeared under the surface of a huge water reservoir for a new power plant.

Flooding is an installation based on the waterfall Toefrafoss which is at present disappearing under the rising waters of an enormous reservoir that has been created by a colossal dam for a hydro electrical power plant, built to power an aluminum smelter. This waterfall is just one of many that have disappeared or are affected by this single demonstration of technological power.

Flooding is Ruri’s latest work of the series Endangered Waters, and was created for Ars Electronica (2oo7). In this work she documents using video and audio, and presents in an installation how industrial interests are bringing about the flooding of an unique highland ecosystem in her country and causing its unalterable destruction. Even though the artist focuses the camera on waterfalls in her own country, Iceland, the Endangered Waters works are simultaneously local and global in concept.

Flooding is a two faceted video installation starting with a powerful expression of the waterfall Toefrafoss on one screen accompanied with the true recordings of its sound, that is followed by a collage of small frame videos that appear temporarily, allowing the viewer a peek into the lives of birds whose nests are being submerged into the rising waters of the reservoir, as well as watching the previous waterfall disappear under the surface. Parallel with the collage appears a rolling text on a second screen, - precise and conceptual. [via Cultures of Climate Change]