Collaboration with Marco Miehling (GER) 2020/2021
This initiative is to investigate methodologies which enable different artists from different locations to work together from one place to another at a simultaneous moment in time and space. It brings together artists to enhance cultural exchange in the context of political fragility and ecological awareness.
Through the use of replicating numerous physical shapes, a digital zoom meeting event, an online performance exchange occurred between Marco Miehling (GER), Luca Bosani (ITA) at Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer (UK) and Jessica Doucha (SA) and Cécile Lassonde (FR) at the NIROX Foundation.
An experimental time-based, site-based occurrence between North and South locations. Together, we explore the possibilities of reducing the ecological footprint of artistic collaboration and of finding alternative ecologically aware modes of working, that allow for the coexistence of human and nonhuman actors.
How do we allocate ourselves and the work we are doing responding to remote places within a different cultural framework? The new circumstances inevitably affect our preconceptions of the local and the global, how we move between the two states, and the artworks we create.
Whereas the local takes place in the territory of a specific place, culture, and time, the global emancipates itself from this specificity, attaining what is described as universal validity. The relationship between the local and the global (and the attraction of moving between the two) is one of the main factors in the discourse of climate change. It therefore becomes our shared responsibility – as the creatives, the artists, designers, and others – to imagine new ecological futures…
How does one move, when we are told that we cannot move? A time of internal conveyance and awareness. We’re forced to stay, hold tight. Held by constructed boundaries, confined by invisible walls, fabricated with our mind made limitations, our parameters of personal, physical, social, spacial and distant. Deluded by old notions of human connection. The ground is my support and gravity my companion. The present moment is my breath. I am seeking equilibrium between active rest while in motion. Oscillating between polarities. Where is the centrifugal force that spirals upwards, outwards, inwards, towards. I cannot see, yet I am seen. Here, I cannot touch, yet I am touched.
Photography & videography by Hankyeol Lee
Simultaneous live stream performance with Luca Bosani (ITA) C0038: “Spooky actions at distance” at Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer (UK).
