Formed under PARALLAX Lab in 2020, we, Julia Cremers, Lena Kocutar and Daniel V. Herrmannsdoerfer began researching notions of playful disruption.
Moss Grid
Consists of a ritual in which the moss that grows on and in between monuments is cared for, and a website script that allows for virtual moss to “grow” on the screen.
The Ritual
During the month of June, the moss that grows between the cracks of the Monument for Historical Change at Berlin’s Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz will be ritually watered.
The Workshop
One public workshop will be organised together with PARALLAX Lab. Participants will learn how to make their own “moss grafiti”, by mixing collected mosses with buttermilk. This can be applied to surfaces in the city.
Research Phase
Currently, Moss Grid is in its early research phase. Moss is collected an photogrammetrically scanned under different light conditions and with backgrounds that improves feature detection.
Previous Project:
Ruin Figments and Reconstructed Memories
3D sculpture and video essay, 2021
'Ruin Figments and Reconstructed Memories' is Centred around a ruin folly (an imitation ruin) built in Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Palace Park in the year 1778, that depicts the remains after the Roman siege of Carthage in 146 BC.
Through photogrammetric methods, the ruin folly’s virtual counterpart is extracted, distorted and rematerialised. The resulting 3D printed sculpture calls attention to the implicit alterations at each reproduction stage, hereby questioning the cultural impact of imperial collapse and its appropriation by new power structures.
The video essay is another uncovering of this layered entity, exposing the material resources and human efforts that are required for the construction of virtual spaces.
Both works are created in collaboration with Julia Cremers, Lena Kocutar and Daniel Viladrich Herrmannsdoerfer, under PARALLAX Lab 2020/2021. Exhibited at after the butcher gallery from 19 March until 25 April 2021 in Berlin, during the group exhibition 'Learning to Dwell otherwise within the ruins'.
