The Mediterranean Sea as a border, as a place, as a space - for wind, waves and ground, for journeys, for escape, for sea dwellers, cargo ships and narratives, for longing, for memories, for stagnation, for movement and currents.
Overview
in this seminar we took time to reflect, to remember, to read and write, draw and film, experiment on analogue and digital moving image — on a personal level then abstracted and connected to global issues, dealt with the possibilities to pinpoint a topic for individual or a collective work as well as a presentation method through projections on different materials with the aim to visualize in time and space.
We read texts from ‚Undrowned‘, Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, listened to ‚Saying Water‘, a monologue by Roni Horn, followed investigations of Forensic Architecture and Migrant Journal, browsed through geographic maps, charts and data sources. — and then we went to the beach. I mean, we had to. We travelled to southern france work in Marseille and to visit Les Rencontres d’Arles.
Scenography by Joanne, Jessica, Marc and Lena
Seminar Documentation by Xenia, Charlotte, Maty , Eunchae and Rahel
„If you happen to be in the ocean and you see someone breathing, what do you do? If you see someone like you, a mammal, but unlike you—not bound by boats and masks and land—you might wonder who they are, what they are doing, how do they do it. How do they live in salt and depth and motion? You very well might wonder.“ — Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Seminar Content
- drawing, film, typography and layouting, analogue and digital motion sickness
- Visualization of Memories and Assosiations in time and space
- Reading texts, reflecting and listening
- examining and connecting to global issues through maps and data sources
- pinpoint a topic for individual or a collective work
- Excursion, ocean workshop, Les Rencontres d’Arles
- presentation, installation, projection on materials
Work by Matylda
Work by Marc
Work by Jessica
Work by Jessica
Work by Joanne
Work by Lena
Work by Charlotte & Rahel
Work by Charlotte & Rahel
Works by Paula and Eunchae
Participants
Nico Dasenbrock
Rahel Diederich
Matylda Eaton
Paula Klotzki
Lena Breitmoser
Eunchae Won
Jessica Kiara Kessler
Charlotte Singer
Joanne Dietz
Xenia Borgardt
Paul Boeninger
Marc Bendt
Ressources
- Roni Horn: Saying Water (trigger warning: content on suicide and murder)
- Undrowned - Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Forensic Architecture: Shipwreck at the threshhold of europe (on the topic of migration on the Mediterranean Sea. TW: shipwreck, drowning)
- Listen to the Deep
- Shipfinder
- David Rumsey Map Collection
- Mediterrenean Local musics (Spotify)
- Circle surfaces sun : from somewhere in the Mediterranean