Evolutionary Gardens and Performative Habitats
(2021)
author(s): Egle Oddo
published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
My interest for plant seeds dates back to my early experiments during the '80, when I collected seeds in urban and rural contexts and translocated them in new habitats. Since then my work has taken different directions. At present I create public art works by installing living sculptures which I denominate as evolutionary gardens. The process behind this practice went through a long transformation recently enriched by the contribution of art curators with whom I engage in long term dialogue. This article explores the process of research between 2007-2017, it describes how I become reflective about my viewing and doing, how I progressively opened the work to multiple influences, and how this has generated a better integrative approach leaning towards the complexity of cognitive structures. Finally I asked a set of questions to the curators who worked with me, with the aim to offer the reader a direct view on the diverse approaches intertwined with my practice.
Study of/as Commoning
(2019)
author(s): Anette Baldauf, Vladimir Miller, Annette Krauss, Mara Verlic, Moira Hille, Hong-Kai Wang, Mihret Kebede Alwabie, Julia Wieger, Tesfaye Beri Bekele, Stefan Gruber
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
’Study of/as Commoning’ is one of the outcomes of a research project realized by a group of artists, architects and social theorists at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2014–16). In times of ongoing environmental crisis, violent land grabbing and the aggressive financialisation of space, time and subjectivities, combined with global migration flows, the research group explored the debates on the commons and the different practices of commoning as potentially providing new entry points for a radical repudiation of neoliberalism. To date, the labor and conflicts involved in the process of commoning have chafed against a Western utopian understanding of the commons as a coming together free of friction. We explored commoning as a process, simultaneously made against and within, existing fields of power. As such, ‘Study as/of Commoning’ is part of a much wider endeavour to rethink and undo the methodological premises of Western sciences, arts and architecture, raising unsettling questions on (artistic) research ethics, accountability, and the entanglement of power and knowledge. In this context, ‘Study of/as Commoning’ considers commoning as a possible methodology, a modality of social relations, and the collective state of mind that framed the research group’s work together. Our research continuously encountered the limitations of Western concepts of the commons, framed as an enclosure that neglects conditions of coloniality and colonial dispossession. Is it possible to hold on to the empowering notions of commoning while acknowledging the significant absences within Western accounts on the commons and the many connections between the commons and the history of empire?
The Sense of Common Self
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Alex Arteaga
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This exposition present the artistic research project "How to Live Together in Sound. Towards Sonic Democracy" by Alex Arteaga, Jaana Erkkilä-Hill, Petri Kuljuntausta, Jari Rinne and Jan Schacher.
HALL09 - Vilnius
(last edited: 2022)
author(s): Breg Horemans, Siebren Nachtergaele, Gert-Jan Stam
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This page is part of TAAT's Live Archive. It's an attempt to structure the archival material of the project HALL33. We focus on scripting a specific workshop-performance that took place Match 10-11th in Vilnius, Lithuania. For this workshop-performance embedded researcher Siebren Nachtergaele (UGent/HOGent) was part of the team as an inside/outside eye in co-assembling of this script/archive page. This page functions as a residu of an embodied and reflective proces, visually meandering between action and extraction. TAAT is founded in 2012 by Gert-Jan Stam and Breg Horemans.
This page is part of TAAT's Live Archive. It's an attempt to structure the archival material of the project HALL33. We focus on scripting a specific workshop-performance that took place Match 10-11th in Vilnius, Lithuania. For this workshop-performance embedded researcher Siebren Nachtergaele (UGent/HOGent) was part of the team as an inside/outside eye in co-assembling of this script/archive page. This page functions as a residu of an embodied and reflective proces, visually meandering between action and extraction. TAAT is founded in 2012 by Gert-Jan Stam and Breg Horemans.open exposition comments (0)