The Replicator 3-7.4 & 27-28.5
Replication is the basic motor of biological and social life. The Latin root of Replication is Plico, meaning to fold up or double up. Like folding a piece of paper on itself, a multiplicity is created from a whole and like the folded paper; opposites meet and literally confront one another. In what ways can a historical replica confront and question the present for the future? Can a replica allow us to experience something remote in geographic space? Moreover what constitutes a replica in terms of material, scale, and visual similarity?
Writing is an important part of this course. “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.” This sentence in Oscar Wilde’s essay The Decay of Lying (1889) is license for literature to shape reality. We will explore how writing can be used to turn something into its own representation and how this representation can take primacy over the original.
Students are also introduced to material techniques as well such of mold making and casting, 3D scanning and printing through experiments. Each day will consist of readings, lectures, and discussions that question the conventions of linear history, authorship, originality, and mechanical reproduction.
Highlights of the week 3-7.4
27&28.5 The Replicator Exhibition at the Nordflügel of the Gessnerallee
Installations:
No love needed
Melinda Bieri
performative installation
Asexual reproduction – all we need
to grow is sweetness.
Baby mushrooms given for adoption
X Stück Mensch
Dorothea Mildenberger
a.k.a. mc-swaghetti
video installation
A piece of a human.
or two humans.
or is it many pieces of one human?
in any case: they meet.
ein stück Mensch.
oder zwei Menschen.
oder sind es viele stücke
eines Menschen?
jedenfalls: sie treffen sich.
fuga económica
Simone Mutti
video
Fugue [fyg] nom féminin
(latin fuga « fuite », de fugere → fuir)
- Action, fait de s’enfuir momentanément
du lieu où l’on vit habituellement.
➙ escapade, fuite. Faire une fugue.
- Composition musicale écrite
dans le style du contrepoint
et dans laquelle un thème et
ses imitations successives forment
plusieurs parties. Fugue à deux, trois voix.
Dancing With Myself
Simone Mutti
Simulator
Come and have a dance with yourself.
Two persons needed.
Sobject
Kathrin Doppler
Auszüge aus live Experimenten
Performance: Rosie Terry Toogood
Subjekt und Objekt treten
gemeinsam auf: Der menschliche
Körper als Material und das
Objekt als
lebendiger Akteur.
Wer versteht die Welt noch?
Meatme
Kathrin Doppler
Video, Schokolade
Performance: Rosie Terry Toogood
Wir verschmelzen,
gehen ineinander auf,
werden eins.
Perfromances:
The Original
Melinda Bieri
print-on-demand installation
Live signed prints.
„I am the original“,
says the first born.
„I am the original“
answers the second born.
So do the following ones.
Is time the indicator for originality?
Danger-new collectors!
Diana Lira
auction / performance
An one-work exhibition
about the art market report of 2016.
Participate and get your own Warhol.
Y M M Y G M Y
u a
Peter Tränkle
Live-production and sale
of post-soviet-train-coaches
out of chocolate from
Switzerland and Kazakhstan.
Buy it! Eat it! Be it!
in progress
Simone Mutti
Live bar-intervention
