Concluding the Third Arrival
Beginning the third interval straight with the intensive weeks, meant that we had a relatively long in-situ phase following. Different from the other intervals, it also meant that we developed most materials during the first two weeks which we now brought back to our workspaces as starting points. The main spaces for most of the time were the three studios and the social room at Reagenz. We began with weekly group meetings that lead into a mode of ‘practice sharing’, wherein each of the artists-researchers would ‘host’ a day of activity that emerged from their practices.
These hosted days could take place at Reagenz—for example, Hanns made a listening session for electroacoustic pieces from Shouldhalde, which had been composed over the entire period of simularr but would now also be used as the basis for a small glass slides installation; Andrea made, among other things, a drawing session with fabric and the self-distilled walnut ink—or elsewhere in the city or outside—Naya invited us to her piece Spells for Transformation at <rotor> and to the silkscreen workshop of the TU Graz, where she was working; and Daniele invited us to a sound walk in Augartenpark.
Indeed, movement and walking were once more prominent elements that we had successfully explored before. A lucky coincidence allowed Fulya to be present for another adjacent project, and also Charlotta visited us, thereby finally creating an encounter between participants of all three intervals of the project, something that had been planned for the symposium but not realised, due to travelling issues. We did not make this encounter an ‘explicated’ event, in the sense of discursively elaborating it, but there was a felt sensation that we all belonged together, which was quite wonderful.
Other walks led us to the sculpture park, and to Hilmteich and Leechwald, where Andrea was inviting us for a ‘booklet walk’, repeating an action previously exercised at Hoke Werkhaus, allowing everyone this time to pick another booklet, each of which suggested to think about one element (water, soil, beings).
While in the first two intervals, our ‘final days’ where comprised only of a few days reflecting together in particular places, this time we could inhabit a space of Kultur in Graz (KiG) for a longer period, more akin to the yellow lodge in Klagenfurt in interval 2. This space allowed us again to bring together the elements developed, refine some of them, make additional experiments, or engage in a sort of ‘post-production’. It is in a photo taken here, that one suddenly realises the correspondence of vertical suspended forms, as one can see wooden rings of Andrea next to the fire-red wooden square steles of Naya next to a column of suspended glass slides of Hanns.
Movement took another angle, as it was not just about the movement of humans or animals, but the erratic movement of wind and of kinetically excited objects, from a liquid starch experiment with broken speaker cones to small motors, either making the suspended vertical arms rotate, or pumping the walnut ink through PET tubes.
