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  • 06.11.2026 Tutorial

    By

    Clark Philips

    ,

    Vinzenz Grausam

    ,

    Suresh K P

    and

    Mikuláš Tycar

    TEAM V

    ‘[We must] open our eyes and ears each day [to] seeing life as excellent as it is… To accept whatever comes regardless of the consequences is to be unafraid or to be full of that love which comes from a sense of at-oneness with whatever.’ – John Cage

    Embracing the difference in our ways of working with ideas, both of one’s own ideas and the ideas of others, gave birth to great artistic power, expansion and freedom. (field of possibilities) ‘Fluxus is a way of life’

    FLUXUS instructions activation

    Research & Inspirational discussions – life and experience – performance and interpretations

    Images from left to right : Milan Knížák-playing bass laying down, Diogenes-living in a barrel, Jan Mlčoch-great sleep, Joseph Beuys-living with wolves

    Prompts: –hug a tree –climb a rock –go to a record shop or music store –go for a walk, collect things

    m a k I n g w I t h o u t t h I n k I n g

    building & passing it along to be added onto, repaired, changed or altered

    screw painting to capture music

    living object

  • 23.10.2026 Tutorial

    By

    Clark Philips

    ,

    Mikuláš Tycar

    ,

    Vinzenz Grausam

    and

    Suresh K P

    TEAM V – Object // Remnant // Label // Identify Exercise

    Random Terms/Words/Prompts

    Clark

    Suresh

    Vinzenz

    Miki

    Camera Obscura prototype

    Interpretation Exercise 1 (Craft) –above

    Interpretation Exercise 2 (Electricity)

    Is it HOW objects displayed or labeled what gives them meaning?

    Can we preserve the essence of something without turning it into a fixed moment (‘capturing the soul’), an identifiable object, or a defined concept?

    NEXT STEPS

    -Exploring how to display object prototypes and vitrines.

    -More remnants exercises i.e personal items, interests.

    -Stories as objects?

  • Group V

    By

    Mikuláš Tycar

    ,

    Vinzenz Grausam

    ,

    Clark Philips

    and

    Suresh K P

    ideas, research and where we started

    HOW everyday OBJECTS CAN CONNECT TO EACH OTHER

    We (re)imagine the vitrine as a place of action, a playground.
    Fire, kinetic objects, natural decay, processes both of LIFE and DEATH.


    Processes that sooner or later will come to an end.
    The vitrine will remain empty, with the imprints of that life.

    Exhibiting a vitrine marks the end of starring at neither dead nor alive objects. A new museum is established.

    The marks of a lived life seem more interesting to us.

    The ashes, leaving space to imagine and remember.

    What is the role of the vitrine within the context of an ethnographic museum in the future? How do we interact with objects displayed inside these vitrines? What is the role of the museum as a container of culture, thus a vitrine itself?

    MEMORIES of labels

    RETHINKING THE ‘BOX’

    OBJECT EXAMPLES

    “living” objects have the ability to make these moulds.

    The mould is caught in the vitrine.

    When the object dies, it is removed, buried, no longer needed.

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    NEXT STEPS=objects//sounds//light//dead or unused//physical or analogue slop

    // Kinetic sculptures, tools and instruments //

    Can photographs die? What purposes and functions of a photograph have outside memory and story?

    The mould – steps in dirt leave an impression of our shoes behind.

    objects that capture sound and smell

    QUESTIONS: Is it about the Vitrine? Most objects within vitrines are decontextualized and can be therefore distorted. We are looking to show what imprints, marks, distortion/disruption within this context.

    Memory of labels? Embracing contradictions

    Can objects hold feelings? a more than human way of re-storytelling?

    RADICAL IMAGINATION

    FEEDBACK AND YOUR INPUT WELCOME

    THANK YOU

  • Team 8 // 09.06.2026

    By

    Clark Philips

    ,

    Jonathan Wasmer

    and

    Stephanie Rentschler

    ‘Echoes of Structure’

  • Team 8 // 05.06.2026

    By

    Clark Philips

    ,

    Jonathan Wasmer

    and

    Stephanie Rentschler

    Secession ‘Echoes of Structure’

  • 22.05.2026 Team 8

    By

    Clark Philips

    (un)sittable

    NEXT STEPS

    // Plaster Collection visit //

    technique approaches

    DECIDE ON LOCATION OR LOCATIONS

    -Secession

    -Arsenal Military Museum

    -Pötzleindorfer Schloss Park

    -all of the above – collage into a sculptural miscellany chair object

    PROJECT PLAN

  • 24.04.2026 Tutorials

    By

    Clark Philips

    Objects and Spaces communicate unspoken rules

    HOW CAN WE WORK WITH UNSPOKEN RULES?

    • A chair is not neutral
    • Sitting is not passive
    • Space is not open—it’s structured

    “We don’t just use objects – we interpret them.”

    “A space can be physically accessible but socially restrictive.”

    Inspiration

    Peer feedback session 22.04.2026:


    -Just sitting is not enough to occupy space.

    -Unspoken rules of sitting is most interesting.

    -Documenting the process.

    ‘While making the mold of the stairs from the Strauss monument. I was using clay to make the imprint and it was reminded that an action is required in a way to be in space you don’t typically sit on.’

    NEXT STEPS

    -Site Specific documenting and investigation

    -Material testing and development of aesthetics and visual language

    -How much of the process or the moods should be included in the project?