#materialsammlung

Fabian Knecht - Isolation Series

© chriskenny.art

© Victoria Tomaschko

Floating University Berlin

“Students and their teachers from Berlin, Europe and elsewhere collaborated on building the campus: learning spaces, workshops, an auditorium, a laboratory tower for experimental water filtration systems, a kitchen, a bar and of course the toilets. They created a space for exchanging knowledge within experimental, educational formats. A place where transdisciplinary research teams and various positions came together to grapple the complex questions of urban practices: How can cities cope with the risks, strains and chances of global warming, the shortage of resources, superdiversity and hyper-accelerated development- nowadays? Which tools do we need to live and work well and in a resource-efficient manner in the future?”

Canto de las abuelas

Leonel Vásquez, 2021

Three-channel audio-visual installation

“Rocks, for many indigenous communities, are the grandmothers, since they preserve in their harsh silences the prudent voice of the times; the song of these geophonic beings allows us in this space to purify our own waters. By accelerating the rock, making it turn on its own axis and amplifying its sounds, millions of years of geological actions give off the creative vibrations of a universal harmonic mineral composition, music softens the rock, while rotating the rock wears out, that’s the same that the river has been making before we emerged into this world, a boulder.” This is how sound artist Leonel Vásquez describes his collaboration with stones picked from healthy and ailing rivers across Colombia. For his audiovisual installation, these stones (fragments of deep geological time) are cleansed, cared for then set to spin on gramaphones-of-sorts that the artist builds to liberate the grandmothers’ songs in high-pitched tones. The sound installation projection invites the public to immerse themselves in this river of sound.”

AI generated images using the prompts “museum” and “hybrid”

Nicholas Galanin Never Forget, 2021

https://www.peterblumgallery.com/viewing-room/nicholas-galanin2

Velo de luto (Mourning veil)” (2020), magicicada wings, sewn with hair, 32 x 47 x 2 inches. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman. All images © Selva Aparicio

Genius Loci: An Immersive Exhibition of Art & Design Revives the Spirit of Gio Ponti’s L’Ange Volant Villa

Mathias Kiss, Sans 90 degrés Sky Mirror, 2021