Common Matter. A collaborative work. Photo: Fabian Thüroff.
The workshop “Common Matter – Researching Together, Designing Speculatively”
This exhibition shows objects from a future that we are only beginning to imagine. They are made of GEOBRIS – a material consisting of mealworm excrement and bio-based plastic. Raw and earthy, malleable for a short time, then hard and yet vulnerable.
What we see here is the culmination of a week of collaborative work in which artists, researchers, machines and materials interacted with one another. A process of sensing, testing and questioning – about new forms of working, interacting and about the material as a partner.
Working with GEOBRIS, technical and physical experiences were gathered, disciplinary boundaries blurred and new approaches to design and manufacturing tested. The space was transformed into a platform for collective transformation – between past and future, nature and industry, action and consequence.
Common Matter is a collaborative work by the following individuals:
Yana Zschiedrich, artist and researcher, inventor of GEOBRIS.
Artists:
Olena Melnyk, Brigita Kasperaitė, Taisiia Kravchenko, Corinna Marie Wolff
Dr Camilo Zopp, Frank Schubert, Katharina Götz, Philipp Zehrtner, Henry Korb, Dr Barbara Meier, Dr Susann Anders, Katja Böttcher, Knut Morgenstern.
Presentation of the artworks
Photographs by Fabian Thüroff.
The works present the artistic experiments and results that emerged from the workshops, which are based on the high-tech laboratories, materials and core competencies of the three research centres at Chemnitz University of Technology – TU MAIN, TU MERGE and TU MeTech. FUNKEN Academy would like to thank Chemnitz University of Technology for its cooperation.
