A-cumulation

Festival Prototyp Brno, thermosensitive 3D printing, sound, collaboration with Andrea Uváčiková, 2021.

A kumulace Zuzana Bartošová, Andrea Uváčiková Installation A cumulation responds to the problems associated with a large population and the associated with warming of the planet. The installation directly responds to the presence of visitors. Objects have sensors which directly response to movement of visitors and they start to heat and change colour. The objects are printed from thermo-sensitive material and thus change color in directly to the number of visitors in the gallery, so everyone can influence the appearance of the objects with their presence. The installation does not solve the problems with global warming, it is just a statement or reflection on the accumulation of materials in space and the associated accumulation of heat. Simultaneously with the objects, there is a sound installation in the space, which represents the accumulation of sounds directly from the gallery. The device captures sounds from different places in the space, which it gradually stores, the sounds overlap and thus creates an accumulation of sounds. The visitor not only influences the appearance of the objects, but with his presence leaves a trace in the form of sound in the gallery. Objects are made out of 3D printed parts. Imperfections of prints are left as important visuals details. The size and appearance of the objects will be directly proportional to the funds obtained from potential sponsors or a gallery contribution. Objects are thus something unclosed that we can still complete as the environment in which we are living. They are based on the reflections on space and dwellings that we build, and they are free materializations of ideas about spatial solutions based on geometrized materials that ubiquitously surround us. We sense missing parts in objects, and without knowing them, we can imagine them.

Unproductivity is a weed

Festival DOM, 3D print (PVA), water system, collaboration with Andrea Uváčiková, Pistori Palace, Bratislava, 2021.

Processual installation, object, 3D print (PVA), soil, plants, metal construction, water system, 500 x 170 x 80 cm, 2021 In the site-specific installation Unproductivity is weed, the authors use the process of self-watering the planted plants to point out the constant need for production within the utopian vision of endless growth, which is still the mainstay of our society. The constant generation of new products (hyperproductivity) or the constant activity of man can lead to his exhaustion and, in a broader context, to the exhaustion of society and the planet as such. The authors have long been interested in the phenomenon of unproductivity, in the state when we consciously try not to produce anything and not to create waste. Getting to this state without suffering from remorse for not doing something is getting harder, however, when we admit that not knowingly doing something does not automatically mean laziness or a waste of our time, it can be this activity / inactivity, on the contrary, give birth to something beneficial. The installation consists of the text “productivity is a weed”, which is printed on a 3D printer from a special, water-soluble and biologically harmless filament PVA. The letters act as flower pots in which useful and medicinal plants are planted. The environment includes a self-watering system that supplies the plants with the necessary moisture. The experimental nature of the installation is underlined by the fact that the flowerpots gradually lose their form under the action of water. It is questionable how vegetation will cope with the gradual disappearance of borders and whether it will continue to grow freely, similar to “wild fruit”. The authors also point out the parallel between plant planting and letter planting (Czech planting), which were one of the “meditative” activities during the past year permeated by periods of quarantine and “lockdowns”. Under the pressure of circumstances, the company slowed down, became less productive and motivated many of us to spend time in the garden, in nature or in creation.

Arte-factum

Modernism for the Future 360/365 Project, 3D prints, collaboration with Andrea Uváčiková, Kortrijk, Belgium, 2021.

The project is based on the morphology of the Hardware store building, which has undergone changes over the years. Our goal is to point out the development of the external features of the building (external features), but also the connection with the purpose for which the building was used (internal context). We want to relate the modernist features that the building bears to the ideas of modernity (in general) through contextualization. We choose architecturally interesting parts of the exterior and interior of the building, from which we plan to create scale 3D models from original materials (concrete, glass, etc.). This will create a series of models that act as museum artifacts, and the architecture of our exhibition is also conceived in this style. The artifacts will added QR codes, which take over the function of “labels” for works, similar to what is the case in museums. After displaying the QR code, however, a caption does not appear, but a link to an animation that works with the visual morphology of a particular artifact. Animation acts at first as games (literally referring to them somewhere – tetris), but over time their original meaning, transformation, or more general context to the ideas of modernism that they mediate begins to appear.

Waiting for the snow

Site-specific installation for gallery in open air, NONSTROP gallery, Jihlava, 2021.