The Hungarian symbol of the 1848 revolution against the Habsburgs, as well as the 1956 revolution against the ussr-subordinate Hungarian government
A ribbon rosette worn above the heart traditionally on the 15th of march
it is a very small object comprising several topics I am interested in, such as
national and cultural identity
emotional attachment to history and community
nationalism, and the monopolization of national symbols by the right-wing
traditional crafts and their role in shaping this symbol
the reason I chose it:
it is a fairly young
very recognizable in Hungary, but not so well-known in other countries
Investigating form and materiality
If we detach the form from fabric and its small size, the core geometry of a cockade (kokรกrda) is a concentric, rippled disc radiating outward from a central point. It appears across industry, architecture, and nature.
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.
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.
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 museumas 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.
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?
Alice Abela, Weronika Bojkowska, Parnian Farmani, Emilia Gruber
Common ground
Hormonal cycle
Food culture
Contraception and fertility
Fictional history
Rituals
Object Studies
Thinking about the future
We took already existing hidden ritual that is part of hormonal cycle and menstruation and translated it into the future, making it a visible and important part of the belief system of a specific community
Narration and Worldbuilding
creating a fictional religious community in the future centered around the hormonal cycle
Connection to nature is the highest force
Biological calender, measurement of time based on cycle/bodily processes
Bleeding as a service for the community
Burial ritual to become a fertilizer to the plants you have tended to throughout your life
Symbol: immortal jellyfish(Medusa)
The species “Turritopsis dohrnii”: reverts if stressed and is “reborn”
Symbol of protecting and practicing rest in contrast to current capitalist culture, and honoring the cyclicality of life and nature
Possible story-telling
A form of documentation of this community and their rituals and habits, recorded by one or two members of the community
Screenshot
Next steps
Creating the future world regardless of the religion
future of fertility, reproduction and natural resources
Thinking what kinds of rituals could we be interpreted to have today from the perspective of that future
Starting the journal
Sketching more vessels
Specifying the gardening, food practices, and rituals
Visit the contraception and abortion museum in Vienna
I want to look into topics/behaviors/aesthetics/meanings of things like Speed up growth with fertilizers, cutting plants to shape, letting the garden grow wild, combine non organic and organic objects, adjust the landscape to fit a certian look, what decoration elements get used, what food crops are preferred, how do people use a garden, what feeling do people miss if they donโt have a garden or maybe donโt miss because they never lived with oneโฆ
wardiancase, Green guerillas, hironmus bosch, lawn/lawnmower
Feedback: narrow down topic, Kolunale Sommerfrische, Quinta da regaleira, Waldbaden Shinrin-Yoku, Pexton Glasshouse, Barbwire oder Zaun allgemein, Ungeziefermittel
Colonial summer resorts, similar to Tyrolean summer resorts, but in colonies such as Sapa in Vietnam Quinta da Regaleira: the park is orderly at the bottom and open at the top, with elaborately carved benches; the well shafts are not intended as wells but for ceremonial walks (connected to tunnels and grottoes) โ in other words, lake fountains Waldbaden Shinrin-Yoku โ Tyrolean common sense: the forest is good for you and restores peopleโs health pysical and mental
Pexton Glasshouse โ the first large-scale greenhouse, designed for tropical plants, was heated underground using roaring coal stoves, featured a gravity-fed fountain, and had a transparent partition separating it from the outside, Emperior Fountain (Pexton) water pressure via elevation and gravity,
Library Research:
Kitchen garden and pleasure garden; water is fundamental; obtaining water and retaining it there,
Egyptian gardens โ luxury, and closely linked to life and death. The pharaohs wanted their tombs to be in gardens; rich gardens were carved into their tombstones; the tree goddess was a very important symbol. There were almost no ladders โ people (slaves referred to as โmonkeysโ) would climb the tree trunks, or real monkeys were tamed.
Oriental gardens โ palm gardens, shade, open to all, 1/3 city, 1/3 river, 1/3 garden; gardeners received 1/3 of the harvest; palm trees were pollinated by hand; the only place to find shade outside the garden; dates were harvested too early and then artificially scored to control their ripening process
Books:
Gartenkunst: Bilder und Texte von Gรคrten und Parks (Ursula Storch) Garten Eden: der Garten in der Kunst seit 1990 Der Familien-Garten: phantasievolle Ideen, praktische Bauanleitungen, einfache Pflanzentips Der Garten von der Antike bis zum Mittelalter Gรคrten der Welt: Orte der Sehensucht und Inspiration Warum ein Apfel, Eva? die Bildsprache von Baum, Frucht Blume
hironimus bosch – der Garten der Lรผste
A locked garden, a sealed spring; The Romance of the Rose novel: โHere, the garden is a secret place beyond the orderly world of everyday life, where sexual fantasies can be acted out. The sacred/forbidden behind the hedge In the geometric Baroque gardens there were also mazes and dark grottoesโ
Der Garten ist der letzte Luxus unserer Tage, denn er fordert das, was in unserer Gesellschaft am seltesten und kostbarsten geworden ist: Zeit, Zuwendung und Raum –
Dieter Kienast A garden is the ultimate luxury of our times, for it demands what has become the rarest and most precious commodity in our society: time, attention and space
It looks like that the meaning of Gardens changes a lot with where you are, they are very local. When i say Garden i mean something like back garden, yard, Hausgarten, residental garden, private gardens (not communal like Dutch hofje)
Hard-edge painting movement
baby is three – Robyn Denny (other similar stuff Josef Albers)
Prisions Prisions are integral to society and to capitalist economic systemy by stabilizing and maintaining deviant populations at the same time that their lack of public visibility and public access relegates them to the margins of socity.
My Garden history (gardens that felt like an outddor extension of my home) and comparing them to where i live now. In the city is no space to have a garden
Scale Comparision of Gardens in which i grew up (red is Angewandte OKP Courtyard,yellow my appartement)
Experiments: How could a garden be felt beyond its borders?
Make clothing feel/look like you would have been in a garden, Bring the garden close to your body;
Idea: move textiles or shirts/pants through flower fields, grass, earth, rose thorns, bushes with berrys, trees… to stain the fabric.
indoor flower garden element
wooden beam of a garden shed with cow bell fringes
if you look at it, it makes you want to pull out the strings (one color segment)
i came to the conclusion city and garden dont work, at least none that i would long for.
elements of my dream garden written on paper with city garden sounds
I was walking through Prater and Prater woods, Wednesday 16:00-17:45. grey weather 15*C Maximum duration without passing another person 1:03sec Maximum duration without crossing a dog 1:28sec Maximum distance without crossing a footpath 25m Maximum duration without hearing a dog, person, traffic 0sec
experiment with recoil starter(Seilzugstarter) mechanism [abstract]
when mowing the lawn you see the trace where you had been already
negotiate the borders via drawing of a clay model of a watering can
rust experiments with wood chips (oak and other), vinegar, loam, water. + 1 image planting an Apple Tree in 1.District Vienna
Feedback: what kind of feedback do i want? selma did a project with a “original” forest in austria, the forests in tirol are also not natural, stonegardens
read Books
The One Straw Revolution Mein Garten(buch) -Jamaica Kincaid Die gegenstandslose Welt (Kasimi Malewitsch) Books about Bruce Nauman
SB Mowing Youtube channel – mows abdoned gardens while filming about 600k Views in 10 days, videos 1-2mio views
Experiements with growing microgreen extrusions
maybe use bread as substrate (so much thrown out)
Can we construct rewilding?
How would a rewilded face look like?
What does a rewilded appartment feel like?
What would a rewilded (post-colonial) wardrobe look like?
