In August 2019, Mohamed Sleiman Labat and Pekka Niskanen took part in the Imagining Godzilla project during Sleiman Labat’s residency period at the Kone Foundation’s Lauttasaari Manor. They went sailing for two days with a floating research platform, looking for evidence of the algae in the Baltic Sea. As it was late August, the blue-green algal blooms had almost disappeared and there was hardly a visible trace left of them. The micro-residency functioned as an opportunity for the PhosFATE-project to film and record above and under water. This was a unique opportunity to gather material for Sleiman Labat’s and Niskanen’s future video installation and a film.
