SYNTOPY and cross-disciplinary research / urban studies
Cross-disciplinary urban space research
with the art-based concept of syntopy:
Michaela Rotsch: Disziplinenüberschreitende Stadtraumforschung mit dem auf Kunst basierenden Konzept der Syntopie, in: Raphaela Kogler/Alexander Hamedinger (Hg.), Interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung II, urban studies, transcript Bielefeld 2024: 273-291.
Content:
- interdisciplinarity and syntopy: a research approach
- art-based urban space research with the media lens SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND
- transdisciplinary project GLASPALÄSTE
- SYNTOPIC SALON Potsdam and Munich
- syntopy: a place of interdisciplinarity
NEERSTROM
Constellation, Videography:
November 27, 2024, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
WORKPIECE#1 from GROUND TILLING
Michaela Rotsch & Kadir Fadhel, 2022,
Center of Turbulence Re. Baghdad
with Bruce Buttfield Design, 1931,
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York Studio School,
8 W 8th St, NYC 10011
IN SITU PUBLISHING / ORTSGEBUNDENES PUBLIZIEREN
2. – 3. 11. 2024, Haus der Kunst München, super BOOKS 5
Michaela Rotsch and Kadir Fadhel are introducing the original edition of the workbook INDIZIEN DER REIBUNGSZONE (2024) at Super BOOKS 5 at Haus der Kunst in Munich; furthermore publications from Baghdad, Berlin, Munich, Vienna and Wittenberg. Since 2018, they have been working with the CENTER OF TURBULENCE RE. on the work format ORTSGEBUNDENES PUBLIZIEREN / IN SITU PUBLISHING: Here, publications are created that are immersively linked to processes in publicly accessible locations. Medial indications of the places are inscribed in the act of publishing.
Mophradat (Michaela Rotsch) aus INDIZIEN DER REIBUNGSZONE
Super BOOKS is a cooperative project between Haus der Kunst, AAP Artist Publications Archive, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, and Kunsthochschule Kassel. It is curated by:
Sabine Brantl (Haus der Kunst) with
Hubert Kretschmer (AAP) and
Lilian Landes (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
LYSISTRATA – A SYNTOPY
A syntopic experiment between an installative GOBOTAG action/ Michaela Rotsch and a serial research performance/ Malin Kraus.
August 23 to 25, 2024, Sat. and Sun., 12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Performance on August 23 and 25, 7:00 p.m.
Brunnenstrasse 107, 13355 Berlin Gesundbrunnen
GOBOTAG_FLOTSAM: SUPERFLUOUS
03/23/24 3:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Vienna, Praterstern, FLUCC Deck_Focus contemporary art.
The ULTRAPORTABLE team: Roland Essl, Ildiko Meny and Michaela Rotsch, works in a syntopic process with Transcultural Emancipation, an audiovisual, performative inventory and an interspatial encirclement.
Michaela Rotsch brings superfluous GOBOTAG_flotsam from Rotterdam to Vienna to the FLUCC Deck.
Configurative installation: 12 textile pattern blocks, 24 tagged images, from: GOBOTAG production in Shanghai, 2009; ULTRAPORTABLE corner, suitcase, 2 video projections, from: Ortsvektor Rotterdam, 2022; Sound-Praterstern by Roland Essl; 1 base, 2 glass screens from: 6:9 World Promises 2017.
The experiment is part of the series “Ecologies of Work 1- Care on Earth”: The estimated remuneration corresponds to the minimum wage of 11.52 euros per hour, with “Acht Stunden sind kein Tag” (R. W. Fassbinder 1972)
MARKET AREA: 6 GLASSY STANDS
Premature estate by Michaela Rotsch
Market area at the Vienna Naschmarkt
June 17, 2023, 2:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
With six glassy stands, I am bringing my work structures from the last two decades to the area of the Vienna flea market in order to give them an arabesque organization. To do this, I am mixing workpieces as artifacts without provenance into the flea market. They are indications between the individual and the pattern, glassy passages and indicative collections.
The six-part installative action was recorded on media. It will be transformed into a SLIPCASE COLLECTION with 6 books:
Volume 1: Rotsch, Michaela: ARABESQUE SPREAD, Munich 2023
The installative action is supported by:
‘Ein Haus in Bagdad’
‘Ein Haus in Bagdad: Vom Forschungsprozess zum Rohbau’ by Michaela Rotsch and Kadir Fadhel
in: Architekturführer Irak/Syrien, ed. Lore Mühlbauer / Yasser Shretah, p. 100 – 109. dompublishers Berlin, 2022
TURBULENCE STRUCTURE BAGHDAD
Work structure in the urban space of Baghdad / exchange project with Kadir Fadhel
ARABESQUE GOBOTAG, structure, Genius Loci Baghdad, 2020
Extract from the project: Turbulence Research and Urban Space
DIRECTION BAGHDAD DOWNTOWN_ BLANK SPACE I
Video, 9’09’’, color, sound, 2016/2018
in BLANK SPACE BAGHDAD / Leerstelle Bagdad
–> Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Art and Architecture between Lisbon and Baghdad
Lisbon // 26 october 2018 – 28 january 2019
GLASPALÄSTE
an interactive spatial structure between art and science
GLASPALÄSTE is part of the World Reformation Exhibiton 2017
19th May – 10th September 2017,
Lutherstraße 56, 06886 Lutherstadt Wittenberg
OPENING on the 18th May 2017 at 9:30 pm
in the square between Neues Rathaus and the Exerzierhalle
with the video installation WITTENBERG_BAGHDAD_DOWNTOWN
by Michaela Rotsch
–> Information: GLASPALAESTE.org
LIPPENDICHTUNG (LIP SEAL)
Mobile installation with lip seals and GOBOTAG storage
Gewerbehof Munich West
JUNCTION | VECTOR VS SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND I BERLIN
September 5 /6, 2014, (on the corner of) Rudi Dutschke & Axel Springer Street
artists journal –> VECTOR
mobile installation space –> SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND
1000 – VECTOR information Flyers for VECTOR ARTISTS JOURNAL #5, BERLIN will be on display and given out of the SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND mobile installation space, during a 2 day happening by Peter Gregorio. The space will be parked on the corner of Rudi Dutschke & Axel Springer Street in Berlin.
VECTOR ARTISTS JOURNAL #5, BERLIN, managing editors, Peter Gregorio, Javier Barrios; artists included: Quirin Bäumler, Birthe Blauth, John Bock, Anina Brisolla, Daniel Chluba, Tobias Dostal, Jacqueline Doyen, Friederike Feldmann, Xenia Fink, Heiner Franzen, Asta Gröting, Philip Grözinger, Gregor Hildebrandt, Andy Hope 1930, Fabian Knecht, Dirk Lange, Adrian Lohmüller, Paul McDevitt, John Monteith, Regine Müller-Waldeck, Manfred Peckl, Daniel Permanetter, Dean Rosenzweig, Benja Sachau, Friedemann von Stockhausen, Meghan Tomeo, Syntopian Vagabond – Michaela Rotsch
PARKPLATZ (PARKING_PLACE)
Votivpark in Vienna in november, viennese park bench, in –> SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND
12 x SLOVENIA_TEXTIL black/beige, acrylic/wool Read More
INLAY
Textile pattern blocks with motiv from the Gobotag-project, mirrors
Kunstbau Lenbachhaus, Munich
48 pieces of SLOVENIA_TEXTIL, 80, x 0,15 m, black/beige, acrylic/wool
In: -> Inside the Box (Konzept: Albert Coers):
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PERSONALIZED
Votivpark Vienna, 59 x SLOVENIA_TEXTIL black / beige, acryl / wool, 6 x photography
in the –> SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND Read More
DIAPOSITIV: PUBLIC REGISTER_PUBLIC COLLECTION
Munich, on august 28 – september 07 2013
at the –> SCHAUSTELLE_PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE
in the –> SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND
A public image collection is created through a process of collective image sorting with passers-by and protagonists. The PUBLIC COLLECTION is based on a find of 5000 slides with icons of European art history from antiquity to the present. How is the pre-sorted archive deconstructed and re-sorted? Under which procedural conventions is the PUBLIC COLLECTION created?
The PUBLIC COLLECTION was designed as a collective project by Michaela Rotsch (visual art), Juliane Zellner (urban studies) and Rob Lugo (media).
REFLECTOR_B22
Vienna, 22nd district, –> SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND, from the REFLECTOR_archive: REFLECTOR_B22/1- 94; B22/54 and B22 /89
REFLECTOR_B10/SESSION
Vienna, 10th district, Reumannplatz, SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND, from the archive Reflector_B10/1 – 12
REFLECTOR_B9
Votivpark in Vienna, 9th district, –> SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND
from the RELECTOR_ARCHIVE: REFLECTOR_B9/1-42; B9/34-35
AKH_GOBOTAG
Vienna, AKH (general hospital)
The transfer of GOBOTAG from the AKH to its’ new location in the –> SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND
RAYS -MPP
The third installation of RAYS: Paderborn, in the Glasmalerei Peters Studios
Founded almost a hundred years ago, Glasmalerei Peters Studios is one of the most renowned workshops for glass design using traditional and modern techniques.
More: the second installation -> RAYS and the first installation of RAYS -> CHECKOUT_RAYS Read More
CULTURE OF THE “BETWEEN”_GOBOTAG
PUBLIC LABORATORY INSTALLATION
Potsdam, in the transparent lab of the SYNTOPIC SALON –> SYNTOPISCHER SALON, 90 neurospora crassa cultures, petri dishes, acrylic sheet, 300 x 80 cm
90 GOBOTAGS have been grown in cultures of the model organism “neurospora crassa” and installed in a transparent „laboratory“ at the Neuer Markt in Potsdam. The laboratory here acts like an incubator for the tissue culture of the „between“ represented by the GOBOTAG. The “laboratory” separates the growing cultures from the clean, newly-renovated urban environment. Over a period of two weeks, passersby may observe these cultures forming the black outline of the GOBOTAG.
In cooperation with Manfred Gödel (biology), the institute of medical psychology, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München and the Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Interdisciplinary discussion with: Manfred Gödel (Biology), Michaela Rotsch (Fine Arts), Ingeborg Reichle (Art History), Ernst Pöppel (Neurosciences) and passersby at the Neuer Markt about cultures of the “space between” and world views.
CULTURE OF THE “BETWEEN”_INOCULATION
Filmmuseum Potsdam, -> short movie: the inoculation of neurospora crassa – cultures
in cooperation with Manfred Gödel (system biology), LMU München and –> Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
RAYS
Potsdam, Neuer Markt, in the transparent lab of the Syntopic Salon -> SYNTOPISCHEN SALON
180 x 90 x 135 cm // two GS acrylic slices, each 90 x 180 x 1 cm // prints: nano based ink / light box, frames aluminium, led, 90 x 180 x 12 cm.
CHECKOUT_RAYS
Munich, in the transparent lab of the Syntopic Salon -> SYNTOPISCHEN SALON
180 x 90 x 135 cm // two GS acrylic slices, each 90 x 180 x 1 cm // prints: nano based ink / light box, frames aluminium, led, 90 x 180 x 12 cm.
More:
second installation -> RAYS
third installation -> RAYS MPP
in cooperation with Ildiko Meny (medicine) and the research project „Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi. Glasmalereiforschung“ of the Berlin Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
GOBOTAG_CULTURE
Neurospora crassa
tissue culture of the „between“ represented by the GOBOTAG
In cooperation with Manfred Gödel (system biology)
the institute of medical psychology, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München
and the Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
SYNTOPIAN REFUGE: GOBOTAG_STATION
installation: four auto-pole / forex, digital-print, 90x40x230cm / backlite print 350x250x200cm, videoprojection 45min
Istanbul, -> Siemens Sanat, Biennale -> Cityscale
The SYNTOPIAN REFUGE materializes in a temporary micro-space that manifests a transportable protective skin. GOBOTAG_STATION presents a public opinion becomes sculpture. The installation is based on a multi-part urban happening, which employed a pedestrian opinion poll on five vedute of Munich and Istanbul. The choices of the passers-by were converted into a six-part “diagram sculpture”. The sculpture is surrounded by a three-dimensional wall piece representing an “analysis” of the structure of the passers-by. Read More
GOBOTAG_STATION SIRKECI – GOETHE
Istanbul, Sirkeci Station. Pedestrian opinion poll on vedute of Istanbul and Munich
materials: urban interface with five vedute, flyers, stamps, passers-by
performers: Fatma Gul, Juliane Zellner
POTEMKINSCHE BORDSTEINSKULPTUR
diagram-sculpture: forex, digiprint, 90x40x230cm, Goethestr. 31, Munich
The sculpture presents a public opinion become sculpture. It is based on urban happening GOETHE–SIRKECI.
This employed a pedestrian opinion poll on five vedute of Munich and Istanbul. The choices of the passers-by were converted into a five-part floor sculpture recalling a three-dimensional diagram as used in statistical investigations. This ‘diagram sculpture’ consists of mockups of five piles of the vedute, the height of each pile depending on how often a veduta has been chosen. Every vedute is tagged by a GOBOTAG. Therefore it becomes a TAGGED IMAGE.
Upcoming:
This diagram sculpture is one part of a multi-part urban happening which next stop is taking place at Sirkeci a trainstation in Istanbul in september the 7th. From september the 9th the sculpture is being presented in the installation SYNTOPIAN REFUGE_GOBOTAG STATION at the exhibition –> “cityscale” in Siemens Sanat, Istanbul.
GOBOTAG_STATION GOETHE – SIRKECI
Munich, Goethestr. 31. Pedestrian opinion poll on vedute of Istanbul and Munich
materials: –> urban interface with five vedute, flyers, stamps, passers-by
performers: Lugo Rob, Juliane Zellner
The choices of the passers-by were converted into a five-part floor sculpture.
(DE ) GOBOTAG_TISSUE
The cultivation of GOBOTAG as an organic material (using the funghi Neurospora crassa) has begun. The GOBOTAG, the original invisible space between two figures, grows as a living, organic, molecular structure. The figures are not growing as in GATTACA, but the gap between them is cultivated and grows more visible over time.
SLOVENIA_TEXTIL
black/beige, acrylic/wool
paper design block 76 x 335 cm –> arabesque modular designs
48 design blocks
GAP_SPACE SHANGHAI-MUNICH
Goethestr. 31, Syntopic Salon: Installation of the –> GAP_SPACE SHANGHAI-MUNICH
1st of mai, the opening day of the EXPO-pavilions in Shanghai
Arabesque Modular Designs
modular design, paper 38 x 27 cm | design block (detail), paper
The scrap of paper (-> GOBOTAG_STRUCTURE) has become a template. This is adapted by many different people to generate a variety of modular designs, which form arabesque structures of both shapes and perception. Read More
START
The space between two figures was cut out from a film still of the movie “Gattaca” (1997) and became a meaningless scrap of paper. -> GOBOTAG_STRUCTURE