Work Shops
During the Bio-Media Art class, I had the opportunity to participate in 2 workshops, one dictated by Spela Petric and another one by Wolfgang Spahn, here I share a photo, videos and a brief opinion about my experience in these workshops.
Spela Petric At the beginning of this workshop we made 3 exercises with Spela, related to her personal artwork, one of them was measuring the ratio of threes and see how connected they were in the space, we work with the golden ratio with some frames that Spela brought, the idea was to find the most possible spaces with the golden ratio in the Ilm Park. The last exercise was “communicating with trees” basically with ask the permission of the tree with a sensible amulet created by the artist if we can clean them. This was a reflexion about the sensibility of nature. After these 3 experiences, we made our self “exercise”, we should create a device based on a concept, vision or personal idea.
My idea starts with the representation of the woman as the main life creator, and how we are connected to it through nature. I called “ The Mother”. The device was a globe with different textures in the thumb, index, and middle finger, a rope attached in the ring finger and one hole in the little finger. The different textures are used as a symbolism of the artificial interaction of humanity with nature, leaving the little finger as the only “real” communication with nature. The rope tie in the ring finger is the connection with the human heart as know in Latin America as the heart finger. The idea was to tie the rope around the belly making a node exact where the belly button is placed, use the globe and walk around touching and feeling nature, try to realize the diverse emotions and thoughts that she wants to express, also experience the “artificial” interaction with nature via textured materials.
Wolfgang Spahn
Trasnmediale
Project Eco-Human
An approach to the concept of Bio-media through sociology and art.
by Laura Giraldo, Bauhaus University 2019
Eco etymology: Latin "echo", from the Greek "ἠχώ" and means "sound". Greek mythology tells us about the nymph Echo, whose voice repeated others in the forest, after his death. It is also called echo to the footprint, at the conceptual level, which leaves something behind.
First steps:
Photo documentation
please visit Eco-human gallery
Video documentation
Video process: "How I made leaves transparent"
Video Inside the box:
