SELECTED MATERIAL NARRATIVES
- 22/12/2023 New installation and article "Whale Falls, Carbon Sinks" with Carbon Aesthetics Collective (HKW, MPIWG) at CARBON exhibition, Science Gallery, Bengaluru.
- 23/02/2024 book launch "Material Trajectories. Designing with Care?", in "Future Ecologies" track, edited with Léa Perraudin, Claudia Mareis, Matthias Held at Meson Press, at pro-qm, Berlin
- 08/11/2023 Opening of the showroom at MoA Cluster, Humboldt University Berlin called Activarium with a new installation "Nebelschwelle" and "Cloud Apparatus 2023".
- 03/11/2023 Presenting "Empires of Dust" seminar at University of Theatre Arts Ernst Busch Berlinin collaboration with TU Freiberg, Dep. for Geosciences, G. Heide, and Tropospheric Research Leibniz, M. Poehlker, Leipzig.
- 19/10/2023 Opening "Airbound –Sensing Collective Futures" exhibition – co-facilitation, mediation, air expertise, and new performative-investigativee installations "Luftsäule" and "Gutes Wetter", funded by BUA Experimentallabor.
- 19/07/2023 "Future of Life" Summerschool Co-Lead "Aerial Witnessing" at BioLab HfG/ ZKM Karlsruhe
- 28-29/06/2023 Workshop "Intercultural Views on Matter" with Tongji University Shanghai. Talk on "Investigating Sky Rivers and cloud experimentaton in design and art".
- 08-09/06/2023 Bühnenvorstellungen "Hybride Formen – Emission Playgrounds" at BAT Theatre Berlin with CollActive Materials, Klasse Klima UdK and PIK Potsdam
MICROBIAL CLOUDS [COMING SOON]
CLOUD APPARATUS 2.0 [2023]
MATERIAL TRAJECTORIES [2023]
AIRBOUND SCF [2023]
WHALE FALLS CARBON SINKS [2023]
EMPIRES OF DUST [2023]
EMISSION PLAYGROUND [2023]
DEEP MATERIAL FUTURES [2022]
METABOLIC ARCHIVING [2022]
STRETCHING PRACTICES [2022]
PLANETARY EMERGENCIES [2022]
SUSPENDED CARE-IERS [2021]
NUTRITION CLOUDS II [2020]
TAT OUR [2020]
EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATERIALS [2019]
NUTRITION CLOUDS I [2019]
TRANSIENT TECHNOLOGIES [2015]
CLOUD FACTORY [2019]
FICTIONAL MATERIALS II [2019]
PCLOUDS – METAPHOR APPARATUS [2018]
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RE-CONNECT [2015]
MUTABLE PROCESSES [2013-19]
STATE OF MATTER [2014]
MATERIAL AKTIV DENKEN [2013]
DISASTER PLAYGROUND [2013]
FICTIONAL MATERIALS [2013]
METASOLID [2012]
FUTURE OF CARBON [2012]
BLINGCRETE —PATTERN CONDITION [2012]
UNTER STROM [2010]
SENSITIVE SKIN [2008]
STROMREISE [2010]
STATE OF MATTER WORKSHOP SERIES
2015+
» How can I establish a work process, when I am fascinated by a particular material or technology and how can I get started if the process seems rather complex and the aim is still a wicked problem? «
The level at which materials are architectured is gradually reduced towards micro scales. Dimensions have changed from textiles to semiconductors to proteins. At the same time the shrinking of scale implies an increase of complexity where tools become increasingly harder to access. In this sense, for example the split of a stone is primitive compared to the splitting of an atom. In order to gain access to these superior tools a high level of abstraction, the patience to attentively look at things as well as an oscillation between dirty hands and a reflective mind are required.
Participants used flour and water as given materials, that seem known and simple, but offer a complex reactive potential on a chemical basis. A core element of the research is the examination of the given material as »matter« and the variations of inbetween »states« it can be transformed into.
The results were exhibited during the Werkkonferenz at the Hochschule Duesseldorf, Designtransfer of the University of Arts Berlin during »Vorspiel-Transmediale«.
In collaboration with Stefan Schwabe and Jannis Huelsen.
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related media:
Eames, Charles and Ray (1977) 'Powers of Ten'
Boeke, Kees (1957) 'Cosmic View'
Mayo, Elizabeth (1837) 'Lessons on objects'