Dusting. Ecosystems with images and codes
“No matter how desperately you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It accumulates in fuzzy balls or gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things and making the passage of time. In itself, it is also a gathering place, a random community of what has been and what is yet to be, a catalog of traces, an inventory of threats, and a set of promises… “ Michael Marder, “Dust” 2016 In this seminar we will look at different situations with images and codes where dust engages as a medium to understand the complex interrelation between the content of an image and its making, its meta-data and its technological and ecological being in the world. The seminare is practical as well as theoretical. We will dust together, and we will wait for dust to settle: on paper, in space, in our minds, and we will research and engage in dust experiments together: from field trips to laboratory visit to exhibition visits. At the end of the seminar the aim is to have delevoped a presentation, be it an image series, an installation, or/ and a research exhibition. This will be presented during the Rundgang. Prof. Susanne Kriemann organises an excursion to Vienna 24th to 27th of April to see the exhibition “Into the Woods” at KunstHausWien and the first “Klima-Biennale”.
Dusting. Ecosystems with images and codes
“No matter how desperately you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It accumulates in fuzzy balls or gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things and making the passage of time. In itself, it is also a gathering place, a random community of what has been and what is yet to be, a catalog of traces, an inventory of threats, and a set of promises… “ Michael Marder, “Dust” 2016 In this seminar we will look at different situations with images and codes where dust engages as a medium to understand the complex interrelation between the content of an image and its making, its meta-data and its technological and ecological being in the world. The seminare is practical as well as theoretical. We will dust together, and we will wait for dust to settle: on paper, in space, in our minds, and we will research and engage in dust experiments together: from field trips to laboratory visit to exhibition visits. At the end of the seminar the aim is to have delevoped a presentation, be it an image series, an installation, or/ and a research exhibition. This will be presented during the Rundgang. Prof. Susanne Kriemann organises an excursion to Vienna 24th to 27th of April to see the exhibition “Into the Woods” at KunstHausWien and the first “Klima-Biennale”.
Die unterschiedlichen filmische Sequenzen waren als Projektionen im Raum (großes Studio) auf Wänden zu sehen. Sie erzählen von Überlebensstrategien auf engem Raum, von der Subkultur im Gefängnis:
Sucuk aus dem Wasserkocher, Gebetsketten aus Brot,
Apfelbäume aus Joghurtbechern und Duschgel als Raumduft.
Die Sequenzen sind Erzählungen aus dem Interview mit Badaue (Pseudonym). Die zu sehenden Handlungen hat er, während der Zeit der Untersuchungshaft, zum Teil selbst entwickelt, zum Teil von anderen Inhaftierten erfahren.
Beschreibung (en)
The different film sequences were shown as projections in the room (Studio) on walls. They tell of survival strategies in confined spaces, of the subculture in prison:
Sucuk from a kettle, prayer chains made of bread,
apple trees from yogurt pots, and shower gel as a room scent.
The sequences are narrations from the interview with Badaue (pseudonym). He developed the actions to be seen, during the time of pre-trial detention, partly himself, partly experienced from other detainees.