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Over the months of April and May 2021 a group of nine artists met at Ruruhaus, Kassel and engaged in a conversation on the topic of paradise as a metaphor for a yet unachieved common good.

The attempt of the group is to find a state of common good while being and performing together, translating a poetic travel to paradise into a working method, disestablishing the “roles” (the directional role is vacant) to promote a flat hierarchy.

A common ground on which to find an expression of this vision throughout the performative act.

With

Text by Giulia Ross

Performed by
Lauren Pringle
Alwine Klooz
Angela Reimuth
Franziska Ullrich
Aly Landwehr

Music by
Rijk Kruijer

Voice-Instrumental improvisation by
Giulia Ross

Sound interpreted by
Rebecca Solari

Cinematography by
Massimiliano Rossetto

Technical supervisor
Christoph Huntzinger

Edited by
Giulia Ross
Massimiliano Rossetto

Hosted at RuruhAus, d15 Kassel

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Video Installation 
Participative project making 


Text by Giulia Ross

Performed by
Lauren Pringle
Alwine Klooz 
Angela Reimuth
Franziska Ullrich
Aly Landwehr

Music composed by 
Rijk Kruijer

Voice-Instrumental improvisation by
Giulia Ross


Sound interpreted by 
Rebecca Solari 


Cinematography by 
Massimiliano Rossetto


Technical supervisor 
Christoph Huntzinger


Edited by 
Giulia Ross
Massimiliano Rossetto


Hosted by RuruhAus, d15 Kassel

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the skin of the building.
the inner and the outer skin.
66 unfinished films.
gold skin.
shot in sunny Lebanon.
the events.
a very delicate and sensitive process.
homeless archive.
a living body.
what is the taste of nothing?

archive of the unknown – baalbeck studios beirut

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race against time.
hunting us like a cloud.
sieving the leftovers.
what does it mean to be
the guardian?
crystal becomes dust.
is dust nothing?
composting the ghost.
composting the past.
reality shapes how we look at archives.
who is acting? who is interacting and in which context?
what does it mean to act within doc 15?
feel, it‘s solid.

archive of the unknown – baalbeck studios beirut

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what does it mean if a building is empty?
who steals? who guards?
it‘s nothing. it‘s trash. archive trash.
staging the archive.
archive as power?
power as archive?
dig deeper.
we know nothing.
what we have are the left-overs.
there is no end product.
what is kept as memory and what isn’t?
it’s a piece of nothing. solid. done.

archive of the unknown – baalbeck studios beirut

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how to access knowledge?
will there ever be full access?
our human senses are limited.
we are unable to identify the components of everything.
could the void be measured through archives?
put it in the freezer to stop erosion.
contamination and transformation.
erosion of the material. erosion of the memory.
the unfinished dream.
collective amnesia.
the work of today is the archive of tomorrow.
remember the future.

archive of the unknown – baalbeck studios beirut

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what is the method of taking care of the material? the steps not to damage it?
we need to dig really deep and ask a lot before.
an archive cannot include everything. it is a selection.
inaccessibility to the public = erasing the collective memory.
power over knowledge.
who takes care of the archive and who curates it?
erosion of the collective memory. is it a political strategy?
how can people access archives?
accessibility to the public keeps the memory alive.

archive of the unknown – baalbeck studios beirut

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meydan gap

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This is something from the past that may have baring on the present - please, see and say! Lu :)

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our exchange of bacteria with each other builds upon our existing biomes while leading us to delicious gatherings now and for many years to come based on all that we learn while composting knowledge together. jj x dmac

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our exchange of bacteria with each other builds upon our existing biomes while leading us to delicious gatherings now and for many years to come based on all that we learn while composting knowledge together. jj x dmac

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inviting light, air, water and soil into this space

-Qiutong

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to host a generative environment for things to grow --> to be nourished by these new forms (physcially, creatively, spiritually)
e.g. in the form of garden, human bodies and all other elements belong to the same ecosystem

-Qiutong

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Hi all Composters, attach a pdf with some ideas. These are developed from the last meeting with you.

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Compost may be an unexpected gift given by microorganisms.

Microorganisms and humans live our daily lives without ever seeing each other directly.

However, there is a very strange exchange relationship in which they coexist by giving something to each other without being aware of it.

What if we consider this as an unexpected gift?

Our society is also full of unexpected gifts.

Our current activities may meet someone somewhere and reach them in an unexpected way.

Just as bees fly to the flowers and plants that you have nurtured.

It will return to us as a new encounter.

I would like to visit Kassel, observe and discover the countless "unexpected gifts" flying around the city, and publish a record of these encounters.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UO4rsmxJgGzcSxZvGAL0Xcdi5ZH5mteEBOobFPflknk/edit?usp=sharing

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sample for a container - in such containers people in BG prepare pickled food for the winter, and what not. That's what we might use, or something from IKEA, if it fits better to the "transparency" objective. Searching for suitable composting bin as a physical object :)

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sample for a container - in such containers people in BG prepare pickled food for the winter, and what not. That's what we might use, or something from IKEA, if it fits better to the "transparency" objective. Searching for suitable composting bin as a physical object :)

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Luchezar for ICA-Sofia

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We will have 4 such conteiners (maybe transparent, whitish positioned in 4 locations around Bulgaria - in Sofia, Plovdiv, Turnovo, a village in the middle of nowhere. We will move them around a bit for 1 month, let's say, after the initial open call. In these containers we would invite artists, writers, etc. to contribute items - drawings, text, smaller objects, memory sticks with archives - anything physically fitting. Those would be "pieces" that one does not feel like they are finished and fit to show in public, but feels are not worth to be destroyed or discarded altogether... Ideally, we would like to have transparent containers for "compostable art" that each contributor will sign with name and date on the outside and document to "piece" which will go into the ica-bin-d15. At the end, depending on the input, we would transport all the containers to Kassel with the option of people going through the "art refuse" collected in BG for about a month, or maybe longer as in an ongoing process of accumulating compostable art. :)     

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We will have 4 such conteiners (maybe transparent, whitish positioned in 4 locations around Bulgaria - in Sofia, Plovdiv, Turnovo, a village in the middle of nowhere. We will move them around a bit for 1 month, let's say, after the initial open call. In these containers we would invite artists, writers, etc. to contribute items - drawings, text, smaller objects, memory sticks with archives - anything physically fitting. Those would be "pieces" that one does not feel like they are finished and fit to show in public, but feels are not worth to be destroyed or discarded altogether... Ideally, we would like to have transparent containers for "compostable art" that each contributor will sign with name and date on the outside and document to "piece" which will go into the ica-bin-d15. At the end, depending on the input, we would transport all the containers to Kassel with the option of people going through the "art refuse" collected in BG for about a month, or maybe longer as in an ongoing process of accumulating compostable art. :)     

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sketch 1
Luchezar for ICA-Sofia

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drawing from rural mindset drawing session 

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drawing from rural mindset drawing session 

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https://oncurating-space.org/compost-opening/

For the opening event, a new experimental installation by Bern-based artist Lara Caluori will be unveiled at the OnCurating Project Space. The research sculpture consists of an aquarium filled with water and waste, on which floats a mushroom sack. This fungus, or mycelium, holds the potential for “mycoremediation” and degrade into various substances. The changing process of the fungus will be filmed and observed for several weeks.

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https://oncurating-space.org/compost-teti-group/

Dinner and book presentation by Gabriel N.Gee / TETI Group – TETI Press

As part of the On Curating series COMPOST, Gabriel Gee from TETI Group proposes a dinner event revisiting the TETI Press publication „Mobile Soils“ (2021), which brings together eighteen texts reflecting on the changing grounds beneath our feet. Entitled ‘Sols brouillés et remontés’, the dinner will be composed with ingredients indicated by the authors, as representative of their contributions to the volume. The contents of the book and the dinner are thus in the first stage scrambled, before being whipped together for edible purposes.

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https://oncurating-space.org/compost-humus-sapiens/

Panel and Discussion on Humus Sapiens with artist Malte Larsen, Maya Minder, Linda Mary Montano, Andreas Siagian, Adam Zaretsky

Maya Minder (Hackteria.org) initiated a panel discussion on the subject of composting. Artists, scientists, hackers from various projects previously in collaboration with Hackteria were invited to participate; Andreas Siagian (Yogyakarta, ID), Humus Sapiens (Munich, DE) Biopunk Kitchen (Berlin, DE) and pioneer bio artist Adam Zaretsky (US) will show videos related to soil and compost followed by on site activities during the day on creating composts inside the exhibition space made with various ingredients so far secret…

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COMPOST BIN: Karaoke Readings by and with Paloma Ayala

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COMPOST BIN: Karaoke Readings by and with Paloma Ayala

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https://oncurating-space.org/karaoke-readings/

“Karaoke Readings” series on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnrbJwbHCsi1m168AitOljycc306Dyd-h

Paloma Ayala’s video work series created in collaboration with musician Luna León, which esplores new ways to reframe poems by Gloria Anzaldúa in a format that invites to sing together, listen and participate.

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COMPOST BIN: display installation by artist duo Stirnimann-Stojanovic, 

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COMPOST BIN: display installation by artist duo Stirnimann-Stojanovic, 

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https://oncurating-space.org/compost-opening/

A new version of Stirninmann-Stojanovic’s MODULAR STRUCTURE, first presented at WallStreet in Fribourg in 2020, will become the founding structure of the whole COMPOST programme. Modular, the installation aims to be moved around, to be sat on, to be composed and decomposed according to collective and individual needs. In other words, it manifests itself by its transitionarity, cyclic living and usage. …

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Dear All, I place this here. This is the questionaire Dorothee posted via email. In the google document we might have it easier to collect and relate to all of our answers.

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Modular intervention at Oncurating Compost in Zürich from artist Stirnimann-Stojanovic

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Modular intervention at Oncurating Compost in Zürich from artist Stirnimann-Stojanovic

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In the bin of today 03 Mai 22 we discussed on the possibility of this structure being transported in the Composting space at Hafnerstrasse in Kassel.

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ex. taru/bins for making sake steeped with bacteria for yummy fermentation, consider including bins in the space for us to activate together? 

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ex. taru/bins for making sake steeped with bacteria for yummy fermentation, consider including bins in the space for us to activate together? 

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"wet bonds that bind us together" jj x dmac x karin oen 

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"wet bonds that bind us together" jj x dmac x karin oen 

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The children in the picture created this building together with architects and carpenters from Yangon

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meeting on August 12 and September

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Tender, Dyeing with Compost, by Liz Elton

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Tender, Dyeing with Compost, by Liz Elton

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"sharing in a wet composting taru" jj x dmac ++

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"sharing in a wet composting taru" jj x dmac ++

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Making MISO
process of fermentation. I love to make MISO together in Kassel!! Any fermentation is fine. Yorgurt? Cheese? Lebanese Cheese?

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gold arena jagua mercury sand chaquira glass beads

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gold arena jagua mercury sand chaquira glass beads

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co-habitation — 共に在るということ。hauntology — 共に在るということ。systemのそとに — 共に在るということ　今村宙幹

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Compost challenge, a stable and perpetual structure

The identity, No structure no leadership

We are used to having an identity to identify ourselves into a group or community

Everyone has their own pace – towards realization in a sense moving a large group of people

Making information and knowledge sharable.