Flourishing is an artistic research project initiated by Alexandra Reill in the spring of 2026. It focuses on examining recent developments in flourishing research and exploring how flourishing futurity can be built. What is needed to guide futurity toward florurishing? Or: To guide flourishing to futurity?
[THEORETICAL AND SCIENTIFIC] POETRY. Lines
[Theoretical and scientific] poetry. Lines is the chronological development of short, written, and spoken [lyrical] expressions. The author Alexandra Reill regularly documents the lines here. [Theoretical and scientific] poetry. Lines is a module of the artistic research project Flourishing.
Resources for Flourishing Within Self-Image-Shaping Digital Environments
The conceptual paper examines flourishing in light of positions from cognition theory, creativity and happiness research, and algorithmic agency.
2026. From SP19-22. About a Woman Who Is No Longer Recognizable
In an age in which digital images increasingly mediate memory, self-understanding, social recognition, and everyday experience, the central question of this work is not how accurately an image represents a person, but what conditions enable a person to flourish within an image-saturated environment. The experimental video reflects current conditions.
AIR Bormes. Cactuses
The photographic and video series feature impressions of various cactus species. AIR Bormes. Cactuses is part of the artistic research project Flourishing.
AIR Bormes. Blossoms
AIR Bormes. Blossoms consists of photographic and [looping] microfilm series. AIR Bormes. Blossoms is part of the artistic research project Flourishing.
AIR Bormes. Bushes and Trees
AIR Bormes. Bushes and Trees consists of a digital or print arrangement of individual photographs and [looping] microfilms, as well as photo and video series, each of which bears its own title. The series feature green flourishing and are part of the artistic research project Flourishing.
A Glass of Water
The photography A Glass of Water is part of the artistic research project Flourishing (2026–) investigating known and unknown options for creating a future in the here and now which hold potential to enable flourishing in the face of the diverse challenges of global life, which is characterized more by irritating fragmentation than by inventive responsibility for global abundance.