In Furrious: Underwater, the artists Otto Krause and Milan Loviška delve into the symbolic and literal depths of our relationship with water through their artistic processes of “furrification” and “plushification.” Set against the surreal backdrop of the ocean floor, the work reimagines scuba diving as a speculative performance practice, staging a plushophilic descent into one of the last truly offline realms of the modern world. This performance for camera embraces a camp, tactile aesthetic—childlike, hybrid, and deliberately excessive—while raising questions about our estranged relationship with the aquatic world. The underwater scenes, characterised by their poetic pacing, soft visual layering, and sound design that foregrounds the immersive acoustics of underwater life—bubbles, currents, muffled gestures—serve as mediated rituals of interspecies contact, shaped by movements of buoyancy, suspension, and unspoken dialogue.

Concept / Direction / Camera / Performance: Milan Loviška, Otto Krause
Video editing: Milan Loviška

Production: Territorium KV
Year: 2018
Country: Austria / Malta
Running time: 33 min

Resolution: 2704 × 1520 (2.7K)
Color: Color
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Sound format: AAC, 48000 Hz
Frame rate: 60 fps

No language barrier

Premiere, talk and solo exhibition Furrious @ Blitz, 01. - 02. November 2018, Valletta

Furrious: Underwater in collaboration with Blitz, Valletta, is supported by the Arts and Culture Division, Federal Chancellery of Austria. Thanks to Dive Systems Malta and Anne Javaloyes.

Video stills: Territorium KV, 2018

Catalogue:
Furrious. Valletta: Blitz, 2018.