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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
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., 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
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:
Arabesque structures: Baghdad Downtown
Constellation of texts and images, by Michaela Rotsch in exchange with Kadir Fadhel
in: Architekturführer Irak/Syrien, ed. Lore Mühlbauer / Yasser Shretah, p. 76 f. dompublishers Berlin, 2022
WERKBUCH 1 RAW MATERIAL
WERKBUCH 1 RAW MATERIAL takes the urban space of Baghdad as a turbulent structure and creates raw material for further traces and forms: Along the public posting of the journal ZWISCHENRAUMZEICHNUNG 1911 No. 0, six routes are drawn through the city.
In cooperation with Center for Turbulence Re. Baghdad; icon Munich
ZWISCHENRAUMZEICHNUNG 1911 No. 0
“The journal ZWISCHENRAUMZEICHNUNG 1911 No. 0 is an exchange medium between Michaela Rotsch and Kadir Fadhel. It was published in 2018 in the urban space of Baghdad. The RAW MATERIAL motif was created with the question of how art can be used to understand situations in Baghdad in order to generate resources for the ability to act – without being monopolized by systems of rule.”
SYNTOPIAN TURBULENCE BAGHDAD
Work structure in the urban space of Baghdad / exchange project with Kadir Fadhel
Between urban planning and turbulence research
GENIUS LOCI BAGHDAD, 2019
Publication: Basics // Housing and Turbulence Structures in Baghdad (2021)
Transdisciplinary research between fine arts, architectural theory, urban anthropology, urban research.
DIRECTION BAGHDAD DOWNTOWN_ BLANK SPACE I
Video, 9’09’’, color, sound, 2016/2018
in BLANK SPACE BAGHDAD / Leerstelle Bagdad
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
–> GLASPALAESTE CATALOG
DIAPOSITIV: PUBLIC COLLECTION_BAGHDAD
Muthanabistreet, Bagdad, 1. Januar 2016
Nationalmuseum of Modern Art (Gulbenkianhall) Baghad
KATALOG DIAPOSITIV: PUBLIC COLLECTION_BAGHDAD –> Galerie Royal
DIAPOSITIV: PUBLIC COLLECTION_BAGHDAD –> Goetheinstitut IRAK, Verbindungsbüro Erbil
DIAPOSITIV: PUBLIC COLLECTION_CZ
DIAPOSITIV: PUBLIC COLLECTION_CZ in Brno
OlOMOUC – PUBLIC COLLECTON_CZ
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Ztracená Street in Olomouc. A public projection of the trailer PUBLIC COLLECTION_CZ is presented at the Septembeam festival.
The installation runs in the mobile cube of the SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND on September 27 – 28, 2014 – 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. – in the housing estate Olomouc-Povel (near by Povel-Chapel).
BRNO: PUBLIC COLLECTION_CZ
The installation runs in the mobile cube of the SYNTOPIAN VAGABOND on October 4 – 5, 2014
October 4: Žerotín square 6 – 12 a.m. to 5 p.m.Opening: PRAHA/Fórum pro architekturu a média Husova street 18, Brno – 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.
October 5: PRAHA/Fórum pro architekturu a média – from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.Public Discussion 4.30 p.m., with Ursula Maria Probst, Heidrun Rosenberg, Jan Tabor
The PUBLIC COLLECTION_CZ is a project by Michaela Rotsch (fine arts), Juliane Zellner (metropolitan culture) and Lugo Rob (media) in cooperation with the Czech team Michaela Rýdlová, Sabina Soušková, Lucie Valdhansová (Fórum pro architekturu a média).
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The PUBLIC COLLECTION_CZ is based on a gap in a dia – collection discovered at a garbage dump in Munich. The huge inventory of the slide collection shows icons of European art history from antiquity to the present, but not a single image of the art of the socialist era. – a kind of a void in 20th century art history. But it was precisely at this time in the 20th century that the slide medium was in its heyday. The gap in the collection takes us on a journey to the Czech Republic, one of the original countries of socialist art. The main question of the research was: what position does socialist art have in public and private collections in the Czech Republic today?
In cooperation with private collectors and public institutions PUBLIC COLLECTION will be extended to the artistic heritage of the art of the socialist era:
Muzeum umění Olomouc
Univerzita Palackého Olomouc
Vlastivědné muzeum v Olomouci
Masarykova univerzita Brno
Východočeská galerie v Pardubicích
Terezie Petišková / Dům umění města Brna
Pavel Karous Collection
Galerie výtvarného umění v Chebu
Oblastní galerie v Liberci
Západočeská galerie v Plzni
Galerie výtvarného umění Ostrava
Muzeum východních Čech Hradec Králové
Vošp, Sošp a G. EVROPSKÁ 33, PRAHA 6
The “findings” of this research will be made accessible to the public in the cities of Olomouc and Brno. In exchange with passers-by the PUBLIC COLLECTION_CZ will be created and reflected upon in a public discussion with experts in architecture, visual culture and art history.