sculpture, audio-visual performance, workshop, ritual
Stainless steel, projection, publication
2020-24
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The interdisciplinary project MetaMorphosis, was initiated in 2021 by designer Jakob and developed with artist Xaver Hirsch, composer Ben Meerwein and ecologist Esteban Menares. In the course of a residency at Ammersee, they researched the habitat of insects in the region. A wild meadow that was planted by the team in the house's garden. All around they created an artistic ritual that gathered acoustic and visual impressions of the site into an immersive audio-visual performance including various mediums such as live microscopy. Previously, the artists worked with visitors* to fill a site-specific sculptural insect habitat with local natural materials. In this way, insects, their life forms and needs became the focus of attention.This sequence, consisting of a scientific impulse lecture, a workshop and the audio-visual performance has since developed into a method that allows the project to unfold and evolve in analogy to a metamorphosis cycle, at ever new locations: most recently at the Berlin environmental education center Im Nirgendwo and in Brandenburg at Art Biesenthal 2022.