Welcome to the Eco Archive


The personal sources I've used to build the archive could be considered as recycled material. This made me wonder how I could create an Eco Archive, where I store materials, locality, community, etc. An archive of materials and resources I have 'in stock' both literally and metaphorically that I can re-use on future projects. 



Eco memory

From the topic of memory I thought of an interview with Per Bak Jansen: 'Art is not about creating something new, but reminds us of things we've forgotten. With the goal to capture the hidden things.' This opened up the idea of an Eco memory - not creating a new experience but creating a collective memory by remembering.

(He told the story of a rock that travelled from Norway all the way to the German coast. No one noticed since the pace in which this rock travelled was so slow, to witness the movement of the rock we should adjust our speed). 

 

Presence / absence

Sustainable ephemerality - the idea for Oerol to create an biodegraded installation that would dissapear after a few days and becomes part of the natural landscape. Making matter circulate.

 

The Eco Archive

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Co-creation


Place-based: being open to local and serendipitous opportunities and resources that are around you


Relational: allowing what is available (e.g. spatial features, found objects and materials) to guide the process, rather than imposing an separate idea on a production


Community-integrated: Not working in isolation; borrowing and sharing resources; engaging audiences in the making of the work

 

Celebration

Performance season is not an end-point, but a vibrant and highly visible mid-point


The stage is seen as a vital platform (both literally and metaphorically) for the meaningful communion, connection and cross-pollination of culture and ideas

Using the stage as a platform to showcase ‘sustainability’ and test out new ideas 

 

Mi-Hive is a reinterpretation of cultivation to promote biodiversity in urban landscapes, resulting in a man-made habitat for micro-organisms.

 

Mimicking the seed-bulb of a poppy plant, the hand-crafted object combines local Latvian materials and ancient techniques with scientific knowledge and 3d printing. The Mi-Hive consists of three parts: a porous ceramic corpus, a biodegradable 3d printed core and an arrangement of bended petals made from the bark of birch-trees.

 

Returning to the original question of more sustainable cultivation methods, the aim of this group work is to shape environmental empathy and promote an attitude of care for all living creatures, big and small. 

 

While problem-solving is a good method for short term success, on a long term scale it is the human idea of cultivation which has to be tackled. Humans have to acknowledge the importance of nature as a whole system and not only the parts that we have discovered as useful.

Circulation

Taking the ‘afterlife’ of theatre materials into consideration in the design & construction process (e.g. design for disassembly)


Rethinking the potential of our refuse as a valuable resource (how might what we make be valuable elsewhere?)

Advocating for a sharing culture (ideas, tools, networks as well as artefacts)