Method

The current practice

The work begins with organic materials — leaves, flowers, stones. They are selected for their physical properties: weight, fragility, tension, flexibility. Each composition is assembled in real space. It exists briefly. Then disappears.

These temporary constellations are not preserved. They are translated into image. The image does not document the moment. It extends it. What existed briefly becomes a new state.

Each work carries a trace of movement. Balance, rhythm, and suspension pass from the body into still form.

The image enters matter. Aluminium, wood, and silk are not supports, but conditions of perception.

Metal establishes distance.

Wood introduces weight and decision.

Silk allows continuity and breath.

The image adapts to the material. The material reshapes the image.

At a certain point, the process gathers. Time, having unfolded through multiple states, condenses into clear crystal form. Each work is paired with a crystalline structure — a point of precision within transformation.

The work moves in a cycle:

from living matter -

to composition -  

to image -

to material -

to condensation.

It does not end.

Bali Ku is a method of extending and condensing time through material transformation.


Fragments of composition. Before the image. Bali Ku method by Konstantin Grouss
Fragments of composition. Before the image.

The Practice

The Artistic Inquiry

The practice has never belonged to a single medium.

Over more than twenty years, it has unfolded through choreography, performance, sculpture, video, curatorial projects, and material processes.

The medium changed. The inquiry remained.

How does potential become available without losing its freedom?

Early works such as Intuition of Form and Philosophy of Walls explored the relationship between movement, image, and the emergence of form. Later projects, including Phases of the Moon, Cage for Air, No Translations, @BODY.MOVE, Inappropriate Texts, and Kod Epohi, shifted this investigation toward transitions between states and the movement of information across different media and contexts.

Over time, my attention moved away from movement itself and toward the conditions that allow forms to appear, transform, and disappear. I became interested not in movement itself, but in what happens between forms.

Aristotle’s concept of entelechy — the movement from potential toward actuality — accompanied my early work and remains relevant to the current practice. The work no longer seeks to represent movement, but to observe how one state becomes another.

Developed in Bali, Extended Moment and Bali Ku continue this trajectory through material processes. Temporary arrangements of organic matter undergo successive translations and assume new forms across image and surface.

Rather than treating media as separate disciplines, I approach them as different conditions through which the same questions continue to unfold.

The work does not seek fixed meanings or conclusions. Instead, it remains attentive to transformation itself — to intervals, translations, and the emergence of form.


Konstantin Grouss, personal logo
Konstantin Grouss. Personal sign

The Practice

The Practice development

The current work grows from more than two decades of interdisciplinary artistic practice moved through the body and spanning
choreography, performance, kinetic sculpture.

Today the same inquiry continues through materials.

Movement once revealed time.
Stillness now reveals duration.


Konstantin Grouss, Phases of the Moon, Contemporary dance piece,2008
Konstantin Grouss. "Phases of the Moon". Contemporary dance piece. 2008

Dance

Extended Moment

The body discovered this language first.

The material remembers it now.


Shaman In the Garden, 2025, UV print on aluminium Dibond, crystal, 75 × 150 cm by Konstantin Grouss
"Shaman In the Garden, 2025

The Practice development
Konstantin Grouss. Poem at War / Dandelion Time. Video. 2020

Konstantin Grouss. "Poem at War / Dandelion Time". Video. 2020

Video

Extended Moment

Movement once revealed time.

Stillness now reveals duration.


This Is the Right Side, 2024, Digital print on Mulberry silk mounted on teak wood panel with crystal, 75 × 100 cm by Konstantin Grouss
"This Is the Right Side", 2024

The Practice development
Konstantin Grouss. Absolute synchronicity. Sculpture, 2015

"Konstantin Grouss. Absolute synchronicity. Sculpture", 2015

Sculpture

Extended Moment

Sculpture gave movement weight.
Materials gave duration form.

Come Together, 2025, UV print on aluminium Dibond, crystal, 150 × 67 cm by Konstantin Grouss

"Come Together", 2025

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