Type of Artwork: Installation
Partnership: A collaboration between <rotor> Centre for Contemporary Art, Reagenz — Room for Artistic Experiments, and Institute of Spatial Design, Faculty of Architecture, TU Graz.
Framework: for the projects Simularr, Forest Encounters, and the exhibition WILD SPOTS — Enforesting Ourselves in the Urban World
Web-pages: https://rotor.mur.at/frameset_aktuell-eng.html
Funding: In the framework of FWF-PEEK Simularr Project / Creative Europe
Exhibition Space: <rotor> centre for contemporary art. Volksgartegasse 6a, Graz, aT
Materials: Historical monoscopes, stereoscopes, other vintage viewing utensils, an unusual pedestal, silkscreened transformation cards, and spells.
The artist often uses vintage objects that she has collected in her work. In this case, she used historical viewing devices, some of which were designed to create three-dimensional image effects. For the wild animals sighted in Graz and adjacent forests, from the chamois to the Aesculapian snake to the spider and the crayfish, a spell is attached to the pedestal, an invocation in poem form that emphasizes the animal’s specific characteristics and abilities. The invocation ritual hopes that these positive qualities will be transferred to the invoking. This piece had a second part that used information about the animals around the city. Silkscreened boards were installed throughout the city of Graz at locations where biologists had observed real animals.
