GMU:MfA Masterproject Soil–Humus–Earth

GMU:MfA Project Module SOIL HUMUS EARTH

Projektmodul
Professor: Ursula Damm + Dr. Julian Chollet, Mindaugas Gapsevicius
Credits: 18 ECTS, 16 SWS
Date: Tuesdays, 09:15 - 12:30 h
Place: Marienstraße 7b, Raum 204
First Meeting: 15th of October 2019
Class language: English

Class Description

This module is about the foundations of our day-to-day life. Amongst others, soil is a very basic condition of our urban existance. We walk on it, it nourrishes us, it guides rain to the ground water. But the way we planned the surface of our cities and dwellings is often neglecting our primordial needs as creatures. This is why we need to reconsider our design guidelines and our aesthetics while planning our habitat. In this module we are dealing with soil, but also with humus and its production and the human impact on the natural resources of our survival.

MfA MKG, MAD, Media Architecture, FK, VK, Kunsterziehung

Prerequisites

Participation at Fachmodules in Bioart and/or Electronics

Evaluation

Continuous presence and participation, self-motivation, self-driven artistic practice

Presentations / Talks

• 28.01.2020: Niloofar Ghanavati "Der persische Garten in Schiras"

Literature

• Yvonne Volkart: From Trash to Waste File:YVolkart From Trash to Waste.pdf
• Ecologies of Existence mit Yvonne Volkart
• Alexandra Toland: Field to Palette ISBN 978-1-138-58509-6
• Marcus Maeder Kunst Wissenschaft Natur ISBN 978-3-8394-3692-9
• Peter Fend: Ocean Earth ISBN 978-3927789722
• Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintnance Art ISBN 978-3791355382
• Measuring America ISBN 978-1400130900
• Prinzessinengärten ISBN 978-3832194369
• Jakob von Uexkull: A Stroll Through the Worlds of Animals and Men
• Margulis, Asikainen, Krumbein: Chimeras and Consciousness - Evolution of the Sensory Self ISBN 978-0262515832
• Hugh Raffles: Insectopedia ISBN 978-1400096961 recommended chapters: Generosity (the Happy Times), Heads and How to Use Them, The Sound of Global Warming
• Bruno Latour, Pandora's Hope, 1999
• Bruno Latour, 'Giving Depth to the Surface – An Exercise in the Gaia-graphy of Critical Zones', 2017
• Bruno Latour, 'Is Geo-logy the New Umbrella for All the Sciences? Hints for a Neo-Humboldtian University', 2016
• Charles Foster, Being a Beast, 2016 (fun podcast interview with author here)
• Donna Haraway, 'Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene', 2016
• TJ Demos, Against the Anthropocene, 2017
• The Whole Earth. California and the Disappearance of the Outside, 2013

Media

• The Garden

Artists

• Lois Weinberger
• Agnes Denes
• Mierle Laderman Ukeles
• Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits
• Boredomresearch
• Claire Pentecost
• Robert Smithson
• Andy Goldsworthy
• Peter Fend
• Elli Irons
• Anya Gallacio
• The Harrison Studio
• Martin Howse
• Matthew Ritchie
• Xandra van der Eijk
• Theun Karelse

Students

• /Niloofar Ghanavati
• Elizabeth McTernan