I thought I could use bullets for scale on the herbarium sheets, other items too, perhaps just details of the guns?
The statue of Sir John Lawrence, the first Governor of the Punjab … this statue was inscribed ‘Will you be governed by the pen or sword? …
The copper Teddy’s Bear will have a glass door in his chest and contain a selection of sacred texts, perhaps Foucalt, Derrida, Adorno. It is a reliquary of sorts.
How to work with the concept of Teddy’s Bear? theres a good German resonance there.
The original cartoon.
Copper Teddy’s Bear , drawing May 2010
Looks like I have found a Berlin artist to collaborate with Ulrike Solbrig. Her practice has good resonance yet significant difference from my own.
An organizer of Discursive Picnics and an instigator of Community Gardens, including at Kreuzberg.
I am applying for funding from a Berlin organization for further tree based collaborations.
I need to finalize my project title:
I thought of remaining with the “Taxonomy of Eden” (Pakistan was intended as another Eden if anywhere ever was, “the land of the pure”)
- I will have hopefully, the rug work (as documentation if not physically there) very heavy to carry. Mapping the ground plan of Palace of Versailles gardens onto an old Persian carpet, in gold thread.
- Herbarium type urban tree documentation, with bullets for scale, pinned up and loose portfolio of maybe 100 sheets in a folder, laser colour prints and stapled photographs to forms.
- Car number plate grid(s) large C-prints possibly x3 panels of 32″ wide each
- Goverment files, image(s) large C-prints
- The copper Reliquary Teddy’s Bear, containing selected sacred texts.
- Lawrence Gardens interviews or other documentation, video on an LCD or printed official report type format (possibly a dissertation supplement. “What is your perfect Garden” “What is your favourite part of the Park?”.
- Berlin tree work, public intervention/collaboration. Hoping for a prescence in Lahore and in Berlin. Negotiating currently.
(all the above explore Foucault’s theory of the heterotopia)
Also to do urgently, to submit by 1st June (some 15th June)
Artists statement for catalouge and project submission….(1st June)
Artists talk…… (on going)
Dissertation…. (15th June max)
Catalogue entry…… (1st June)
Post-card for catalogue…. (31st May)
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Ulrike Solbrig (*1966 Mainz, Germany) Chausseestr. 110/1, 10115 Berlin Germany, ulrike@solbrig.de, www.solbrig.de/ulrike.html Ulrike Solbrig is a visual artist and curator living in Berlin. In her work she maintains a critical perspective on the representation and organization of modern life and nature. With the video, Albertine at the Police Doctor’s, she confronts her audience with art history, probing gender inequalities through the mirror of patriarchal omissions (sexwork. Kunst Mythos Realität, NGBK, as artist and curator). With Getting Involved and Other Quirky Behavior, Solbrig together with the Danish artist Kirsten Dufour and the Norwegian curator Hilde Methi (as Kirkenes Mobile Kultur Byrå), delves into community engagement by looking into the working conditions of visiting Russian market women in Norway (pöpp68 privat, persönlich, öffentlich, politisch, NGBK, as artist and curator). Since 2003, she is actively participating in the development of community gardens as part of her artistic work – resulting in establishing a community garden in Kreuzberg or the conference and exhibiton socialmentalenvironmental at Sparwasser HQ 2007. Ulrike Solbrig is a co-founder of the interdisciplinary UNWETTER collective, (Christine Wolfe, Jole Wilcke, Ulrike Solbrig, Clemens Krauss, Benno Gammerl, Dorothee Albrecht) which started its non-academic knowledge production at documenta11. They connect with their continued practice of Discursive Picnics, institutional and non-institutional spaces like documenta11, Liverpool Biennial 04, Berlin-Alexanderplatz, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, MANIFESTA7, Guangzhou Triennal, Palanga Beach in an process of reciprocal exchange. (see CV) UNWETTER’s basic format is the Discursive Picnic – an improvised event, ready to be modified and changed. Time and place are announced for the public to join. It works as a potluck, where everybody is both guest and host at the same time. In the UNWETTER thermos-box, “where ideas are kept cool”, theory and practice fall together. We find, collect, exchange, alter, pack up and move on. “Arriving at a site, we unpack and array within flexible element |
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