In a site-responsive, cyclical project, I bring stones of the Isar river into the residency castle, where I create shared rituals and spaces between my human and their lithic bodies as a breeding ground for reciprocal bodily inscriptions. After this period of intimacy, the stones are returned to the river, allowing the more-than-human world to reinterpret and overwrite the traces of our encounter.
Egon Schiele Art Centrum, guest studio, Český Krumlov (CZ) - June 2023
This residency marked the beginning of my work with the Bohemian Massif as the stone layer I share a kinship with, having grown up in Upper Austria. I approached the Czech region, which is close to my home town in Austria, through this shared stone layer. Starting out with a trip along the border, I collected stones and their traces before immersing myself in their corporeality in the guest studio of the State Upper Austria (Land OÖ) in the Egon Schiele Art Centrum in Cesky Krumlov. This process led to the development of installative works and an artist book, combining poems and graphic works.
Kunstfestival Begehungen, Thalheim - July - August 2022
During this residency, the site-specific installation titled Stagnant Waters was realized for the art festival Plansch in an abandoned swimming pool in a small town near Chemnitz. It incorporates the mingled atmosphere of play that had once taken place here and the desolation that is becoming more and more prevalent. I filled two indoor-pools with inky black bitumen-based liquid that congealed into large puddles with glossy surfaces, both swallowing and reflecting the colorful architecture.
