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1 A Collection in Writing and Movement, Wasserschloss Klaffenbach, Chemnitz, 2024
2 Call for Archives, a residency at Zeta - Center for Contemporary Art, Tirana, 2023
3 minìsae in the enclosed garden of Villa Massimo, Rome
4 If an Inauguration, GalleriaSpazioCorteQuattro, Cividale del Friuli, October 2022
Research
CALL FOR ARCHIVES - SURVIVAL KIT (2), Wasserschloss Klaffenbach, Chemnitz (2024)
For the exhibition Die unsichtbare Sammlungen (The Invisible Collections) curated by Jeannette Brabenetz at the Wasserschloss Klaffenbach in Chemnitz, minìsae created The Club of Collectors, an intimate room to take a rest and think, imagine, feel, remember. Visitors to the Club could leave pocket items that they considered collectible on the table: a coin, an Aldi bag, a piece of paper, a leaflet, a handwritten note, a pen, …
During the last two weeks of the exhibition, a series of gatherings took place in the Club where collectors were invited to bring along their collection items, ideas and wishes. In the workshop A Collection in Writing and Movement we explored the possibility of immaterial collections, taking shape in gesture or on paper. At the finissage, the Club itself was packaged as a collector’s item. A list of cutlery from the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik (WMF) by collector Philipp Stolze serves as furniture music. A piece of paper was folded into a treasure ship and sent out to sea in the water castle.
CALL FOR ARCHIVES - SURVIVAL KIT (1), Zeta - Center for Contemporary Art, Tirana (2023)
Can an archive be considered a living organism? Does it have its own body, its own physiology, its own metabolism? The objects belonging to an archive are taken from the life cycle of the present in order to be set aside. Can we use our own bodies to revive an archive? How can our senses and perception be used to make an archive breathe?
During a research residency at Zeta - Center for Contemporary Art in Tirana, May 7-22, 2023, a Call for Archives was published: “Do you have an archive? An archive consists of something you treasure and that you wish to set aside to preserve for the future. minìsae is looking for informal archives that need help to survive. A survival kit will be created to support your archive and breathe life into it. The kit serves as a tool to access the archival material in different ways and make sure a trace remains. It can also be made mobile and shareable with others.”
We finished our residency with a Garden Party at Zeta - Center for Contemporary Art, Tirana. Have a look at the limited edition here!
IS BREATH MUSIC? DOES IT PLAY A TUNE? at Villa Massimo, Rome and Galleria SpazioCortoQuattro, CividDesignMarket #12 (2023)
At Villa Massimo, the Accademia Tedesca in Rome, minìsae did a mini-residency. Its enclosed garden was explored through playing, like whistling to the tune of the fountain, chasing the birds between the olive trees and spinning around on the grass. While doing so, we recorded the breath that changed its rhythm through playing. Later, on the occassion the Civi Design Market, the Roman garden was relocated to the Galleria SpazioCorteQuattro where visitors were invited to listen to us playing while using the playground. Have a look at the poster here!
IF AN INAUGURATION, 2022 (in absentia)
minìsae loves to work with what is there. For its inauguration, a stack of white sheets from the archive of the association Noi…dell’Arte in Cividale del Friuli was used. Various scores were invented, inspired by the rideaulogie imagined by Walter Benjamin during his stay on Ibiza in 1932, the geste à peau of Jacques Lacan, and a line written Douglas Adams in The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul: “Linen. And sleep. Sleep and linen. Sleep in linen. Sleep.” Have a look at the artist edition of the event here.