Dis-Connected
EXHIBITION 05/2022
Antwerp Art Weekend, Vleeshaak Archipel site, Antwerp, Belgium
“One bird had two long wings and four wheels instead of legs. It could become two or more and when necessary come back as one creature. They could fold and unfold, flip and twist. Now they wander the city in search of places to temporarily build their nests, their form and function remain flexible and change quickly, infiltrating the inner rhythms of the city. They unfold a backpack and fire comes to warm the guests and bring a meal together. At the end of the day, the bird feeds a blue gelatine with their stories. The stories melt and the jelly expands and multiplies.“
Five of the Living Equipment: Cum-Panis, Gelatinografo, Bibliotek, Ruotala, and our Mapping Tool have been staged in the group exhibition “Dis-connected” during the “Antwerp Art Weekend,” in the Vleeshaak, Archipel.
By exhibiting indoors, the habitat of “Living equipment” is transformed giving more attention to their sculptural values. In the exhibition, it was possible to concentrate on how we subvert the logic of usual design objects, such as tables, wheelchairs, or parapending merging their functions and changing their anatomy.
The “living equipment” are shown as objects with personalities, experiences, and stories about the world outside the exhibition, where they create unforeseen circumstances.
The narratives produced were shown through prints about the stories and drawings of experiences lived in public spaces elaborated into new narratives.
