The World in a Shell - polliniferous project
Contributed by Hans Kalliwoda on 06/06/2011 16:20 in New works
polliniferous [poliniferus] adj. Producing or carrying of pollen.
The polliniferous project is a series of art interventions, using the World in a Shell as laboratory. The purpose of these interventions is the investigation of new methods of learning and knowledge production. This occurs by establishing different process-orientated, collaborative, multidisciplinary and/or cross-cultural situations that lead to intellectual cross-pollination, thereby transcending established paradigms. The project aims to go beyond inspirations; it wants to get the process of change into motion. http://www.youtube.com/WorldinaShell
The aesthetics of the laboratory and the operational analogue and digital infrastructures (see 'technology' http://www.worldinashell.net/rhizome/WiaS_brief.html) facilitate an environment, where post- anthropological research and tacit knowledge searching can take place. By winning hearts and minds of the host people, their intuitive know-how of the participants can be expressed spontaneously and will be captured. Without pre-defining results we can expect new insights, and may get closer to the answer concerning the viability of nomadism for the 21-century...as long as we are willing and able to reconsider our concept of home.
On location within indigenous cultures the World in a Shell transforms itself into a swap-shop with functions such as a cinema, a stage for theatre and film productions and into a community space for play and workshops. All chosen destinations are in or nearby UNESCO World Heritage Sites with indigenous peoples, with the first placement in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana with the San (Bushman). The next destination will be with the Inuit in Ilulissat, Greenland. The focus on indigenous people is guided by the goal of trying to find ways to resist the disappearance of their cultures and their vast libraries of knowledge by creating a better understanding of the value and importance of these people for "modern" men and women. Being a metaphoric “treasure box” the World in a Shell becomes the first mobile World-heritage-site.
As a public exhibit, the project is a walk-in-sculpture, an artwork in its own right. Additionally, by applying different methods of staging, people get triggered to change from a passive observer into an active participant - and therefore become part of the sculpture. Meanwhile workshops and brainstorming sessions with the academic community and other decision makers are taking place. In 2010 the project has been exhibited at the Museumpark Rotterdam and hosted by the Netherlands Architecture institute and V2_; and was part of the PICNIC 2010 event in the Westerpark, Amsterdam. An exhibition catalogue has been published.
On a technology level, the World in a Shell explores the limits of the de-centralization of energy production and the raising of awareness on energy consumption in the framework of autonomy and mobility, by using new media components and the internet. We have had success with preliminary attempts to integrate 48-hour weather forecasts to pave the way for further development of a self-learning system, of sufficient intelligence for on-the-fly "smart" regulation of energy production, storage and consumption. As an open source and experimental playground, scientists have been invited to use the unit to investigate human-intelligent-systems coordination under "real-live" conditions.
contact: hans kalliwoda info@worldinashell.net
tel. +31 20 419 49 49
production: blindpainters foundation/amsterdam
http://www.worldinashell.net
At Home Anywhere
Contributed by At Home Anywhere on 13/08/2008 11:50 in New works
With this project we want to map the differences and similarities of the concept of 'home' within the European Union.
By spending one day and one night at someone’s home, we can record and collect rituals, habits and characteristics. Through a literature study, interviews with residents, analyses, comparisons with the tradition of living and creating a photo report, we will identify what makes people feel at home. In each country we will travel to the village that’s located most centrally within that country, the village or the city closest to the geographical centre. This place, on average, is the furthest away from the borders. Het Kadaster has calculated the geographical centers of each country specifically for this project.
There will appear a book and a travelling exhibition about the project.
http://www.athomeanywhere.eu/
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