(april 26)
stills from the 2-channel video installation.
here are also some pics from the
exhibition at palazzo litta.
& and some more pics from the naba lab
audio recording
a small report:
the mimeograph that I worked with was a RexRotary M4 [link to manual],
it was after cleaning and repairing a few things in a very good condition.
there was even an old master on the machine - so we saved the data - it was a union letter from '88.
we bought it online second hand from roma - today this machines are very cheap
as there is no real use for them anymore.
a drawing for the idea of the installation - at palazzo litta
very interessting building, that served maybe more as a stage than an exhibition space.
which also makes a bit that the focuse of a work and the installation
is much more on the state or quality of the photo/instagramability
rather than the experience in the space and the beatiful noisy barrock of the architecture.
working at NABA was very interessting - it is more like a campus city
- not far from the romolo station. At NABA there are a lot of workshops, studios and labs.
and some other buildings and a fence around everything.
it was a great experience to have a work residency there in one of the labs and dive into the
everydays life of the workshops and labs. As well as making use of the resources and
knowledge there. I felt often a bit alien - but I guess that s the language.for the extreme environments exhibition the idea was to make a loop from tin foil. very heavy and thick tin foil.
and to have the copied content somehow rain - a bit like the matrix digital code rain effect.
and a pedestal that it also some sort of poetic documentation of the process.
tin foil is the worst material to copy on - so that took some time to figure out a good solution without making it a lot of extra work.
in the end I changed the ink of the mimeograph to silkscreen water based acryl and added a retarder. it somehow worked to
produce an edition of 200+ A5 tin foil cards. A few times I was wondering what the art is of that whole work.
especially with all the students around - and that nearly infinite amount of resources,technology and knowledge.
It was not so much showing a work at a palazzo - I think it was more the presence in the lab - and the limitation and anarchonism of my tools
that somehow made the process a real experiment - and not so much a finished product -
that one can easy design on a computer and than just executes it or uses machines to do so.
the way how one solves problems when working with limitations
and in the space between digital and analogue can become very "creative".
maybe that is something that is sometimes a bit missing when learning about learning or teaching
learning and our relationship to technology.
*manifest by wendell berry
stills from the 2-channel video installation.
here are also some pics from the
exhibition at palazzo litta.
& and some more pics from the naba lab
audio recording
*manifest by wendell berry