Solo 1

https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/cloud/index.php/s/66NkYZikcrJNfLR

an object that sparks my interest, an object close to home

menstrual cup/my grandmothers’ jewlery

where do i start?

feeling a bit lost
BUT
feeling lost is a great point to start

…with conversations!

https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/cloud/index.php/s/tMwMSZAcBDPQaMs

research about menstruation

where i am at right now:

a lot of thoughts and ideas i have to untangle, verbalize and materialize, stay tuned xx

next steps:

• free-writing(/-sketching/-building)
• more research: finding my place in these huge topics

whips and lashes

by lili, emilia, alice, annalisa, franzi

four horsemen of apocalypse – four whips of apocalypse

(plastic) plague

a plastic whip symbolizing microplastics and plastic pollution

war (against cars)

a whip to slash tires

death (of the glaciers)

an ice whip that’s slowly melting and that hurts the person holding it because of the frozen handle

famine

a whip asking whether food is a treat, a punishment, a basic need or a weapon.

october 2nd 2026

from bottlecap to “sechsteiliger spangenhelm”, because it is both made from metal and it both is a form of protection.

from the helmet to the tripod, because a helmet turned upside down also functions as a vessel, as the tripod does.

from the tripod to the “Dechsel”, because ceramics come from earth and stone, and the stone is the part of the Dechsel that makes it functional.

from “Dechsel” to the necklace, because for both of these objects, thread is the connecting part, holding everything together and preventing it to fall apart.

october 1st 2026

both of my grandmas do not have a uterus anymore – so i brought a menstrual cup, as a symbol for menstruation and the menstrual cycle.
menstrual products, are part of every situation but always remain hidden – the same goes for menstruation itself, which is still handled with disgust and as a tabu.
i want to take this disgust and turn it into something beautiful and powerful, shown openly rather than remaining hidden.
after all, menstruation and the menstrual cycle is what makes life possible, it is very powerful.
i hope for a future, where it is no longer seen as something to be ashamed of an to be hidden, and that this disgust and shame menstruating people are confronted with today, will be the hardest part to explain.