Kathrin Köster
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un_ravel
Galerie im Körnerpark, 2022
Soft sculptures and loom, mixed medias, dimensions variable.
As part of the exhibition Enter_nature at Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, the
participatory work un_ravel was created in November 2022. In this textile installation, the collaborative artistic platform traces explores transitional spaces in relation to the concept of sympoietics, a term questioning biological concepts of individuality, coined by the biologist Lynn Margulis and the theorist Donna Haraway. Over the exhibition period of 10 weeks, visitors are invited to participate in a tactile and cooperative process of multifaceted entanglement.
Five amorphous vessels are suspended in the space, each inhabited by sympoietic
structures: In constant motion, they create new tissues, unravelling what is entwined. Each vessel consists of looped threads, both firm and loose, deliberate and random. Positioned between the objects, a loom, cocooned in a thin layer of latex, invites a communal activity — weaving. Immersed in deep blue, in this seemingly utopian landscape of floes and entanglements, threads can be picked up, dropped and reworked. As the weaving continues, the vessels begin to shapeshift, dissolving and expanding as
multi-rooted networks along the loom. The resulting structures are simultaneously determined and discarded, dissolved and expanded — both beginning and end. While these processes seem to be running in opposing directions, they are inextricably linked in an almost causal chain, as they feed on the same material. traces is an experimental platform within which Kathrin Köster, Daniel Kupferberg, Marei Löllmann, Carolin Seeliger and Lee Stevens interweave their individual artistic practices to explore collaborative weaving as a method of collective labour. They create installative and processual spaces that emerge from collective action in site-specific situations. These parallel, touching or intertwined traces generate and refer to shared gestures, rather than to individual authorship. traces ist eine experimenteller Zusammensschluss innerhalb dessen Kathrin Köster, Daniel Kupferberg, Marei Löllmann, Carolin Seeliger und Lee Stevens ihre individuellen künstlerischen Praxen miteinander verflechten, um dabei u.A. das gemeinschaftliche Weben als Metode des kollektiven Arbeitens zu erkunden. Sie schaffen installative und prozesshafte Räume, die aus einer gemeinsamen Handlung heraus in den jeweiligen ortsspezifischen Situationen entstehen. Die parallel laufenden, einander berührenden oder miteinander verschlungenen Spuren erzeugen und verweisen auf die Aktion, nicht auf die Autor:innenschaft. -
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