teaching
Gordon Matta Clark- Drill Core Sample
3-D Foundations
School of Art and Art History
University of Denver
2020
While following the shelter in place order during spring 2020, students closely investigated and reflected on their immediate domestic environments. In conversation with works by Gordon-Matta-Clark, they imagined their homes perforated and created exact imitations of drill-core-samples through their walls. These duplicates where casted in plaster and with the help of materials found in everybody’s household, such as toilet paper cores, toothpaste and potatoes.
exhibition:
Student exhibition at Vicky Myhren Gallery on view
article by College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Denver
Vicki Myhren Gallery
2121 E. Ashbury Ave.
Denver, CO 80210
Building with Adaptive Design, NY
3-D Foundations
School of Art and Art History
University of Denver
2020
In collaboration with Adaptive Design New York, and their methods of cardboard carpentry, we take a closer look at the individual human body in conversation with in a mostly norm-shaped environment. In a virtual class-visit by Adam Al-Sawaf, students got the chance to tour the ADA studios in Manhattan and learn from his expansive practical knowledge to refine their own tri-wall-cardboard sculptures.
This project aims to sharpen awareness of the delicate interplay between human and material in a design practice.
The student's individual design processes bundled-up findings based in Choreography, Fashion- and Furniture Design, Architecture, Sculpture, Photography and observations made in personal daily lives. The results can be at home in either of those fields as applied solutions or as autonomous artistic expressions.
more about the project on adaptivedesign.org
and twitter
Students interview on DU´s College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences class spotlight series
Adaptive Design Association
313 West 36th Street
New York, NY 10018
Digital to Material
- Instagram to Sculpture
Digestion of an Image
Graduate Seminar at Künstlerisches Gestalten, Fachbereich Architektur, TU Kaiserslautern
and
Foundations, SAAH, University of Denver
2019-ongoing
Metabolism puts substances into constantly new states through a series of consecutive transformations.
We digest an image and transfer a square digital find from instagram into a series of visually abstracted variations of one and the same thing. The conversional steps lead from the digital to the analog and from flat surfaces to spatial expressions. We move from image to object into the environment and bring the created forms and our personal physicality into a relationship. While the triggered movements of transformations seem to increases the distance from the original, they simultaneously allow a closer comprehension: every step demands new decision making, additional aspects are to be observed, analyses and carried on to be approached with a different focus.
This dialog of concrete object and abstracted representation and the interplay of image reception and image creation provides the baseline to develop series, that evade a clear linear logic. The outcomes swap their roles throughout this process. They frequently switch from tool or expedient support to result and vice versa.
The mainly practical studio based approach is supported by an intellectual exchange tackling observations grounded in the everyday or made in historic and contemporary examples from pop culture to high art.
How do we unscramble reality?
Formation
seminar and exhibition, Fachbereich Architektur TU Kaiserslautern
2017/18
Throughout this seminar we acquire strategies to analyse and read the world.
We persue two contrasting, parallel tracks to approach varying processes of decision-making in terms of forms and the inbetween-spaces they generate. Exchange of content, sensitive observation and practical exercises affect each other and merge into an ongoing process of handling an individual formal problem. The independent but accompanied studio-practice is central to this class and allows an individual and enduring immersion into the own topic. We take the resulting questions seriously and let them determine over the directions these projects are taking.
exhibition:
Student´s projects were exhibited at Unionkino, independent movie theatre and studio for film-art in spring 2018.
Press
"An explosion is not destruction but transformation.”
Roman Signer
Devastation Sounds
seminar and subsequent publication,
Fachbereich Architektur TU Kaiserslautern
2017
The sensation of destruction is central to this sensitive observation and research. Physical and mental experiences will be linked and the possibilities to read them accessed in an open and unfiltered approach. A discursive exchange about experimental material-processes, destructive and constructive aesthetic strategies and international positions will be resumed by the conception and execution of an individual artistic problem.
publication:
The sixth volume of an academic series by Künstlerisches Gestalten (Section Artistic Design) in the architecture department at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern will be published with TU KL.
Image: gallery shot, Tom Sachs: Space Program Europa,
YBCA, San Francisco. 2016 Judith Leinen
Our questions and research ideas consider the immediate daily environment.
Subtext Metatext Kontext
seminar and subsequent publication
Fachbereich Architektur TU Kaiserslautern, 2015/16
Formal explorations extended to personal and autonomous research- fields. These investigations where accompanied by positions of visual arts, literature, architecture and choreography.
publication:
This is the fourth volume of an academic series published by Künstlerisches Gestalten (Section Artistic Design) in the architecture department at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern. It contains reflections on the implemented projects and a commonly shared and developed discourse.
find online version: SubtextMetatextKontext
or hard copy: ISBN 3-935627-17-3 order here
