We are waiting for the host to start the meeting. Sitting in our own individual spaces, we each hold our breaths before the front camera of our laptop blinks green. We’re on. Icons spread out on our desktops, and suddenly all our separate rooms have become one. We’re gathered in this abstract space, communicating online and across international waters. Here, we are merging our minds and ideas beyond temporal and spatial borders. Each of our individual journeys have led us to this point; our paths crossing, in what feels like a destined encounter between artistic minds from different corners of the world.

Encounter serves as a glimpse into this international initiative and collaboration between kindred spirits gathering from Austria, Norway and Turkey - who regardless of their physical limits, unite as one in a boundless celebration of cocreation.