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GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Jan Munske

2025-05-02T14:16:02Z

Jan Munske: Created page with "Background I partly grew up with the forests of the Harz: endless walks, dense spruce trees, lakes and abandoned mines. This landscape shaped my sense of nature—structured, immersive, almost timeless. But over the years, the forest changed. The monocultures collapsed, the trees died, and the once-familiar terrain became unfamiliar. My mother said: “It’s ugly now.” I started stopping—really looking. In the ruins of what I thought I knew, a new world opened up...."

Background

I partly grew up with the forests of the Harz: endless walks, dense spruce trees, lakes and abandoned mines. This landscape shaped my sense of nature—structured, immersive, almost timeless. But over the years, the forest changed. The monocultures collapsed, the trees died, and the once-familiar terrain became unfamiliar. My mother said: “It’s ugly now.”

I started stopping—really looking. In the ruins of what I thought I knew, a new world opened up. This shift in perception—between memory, loss, and new forms of attention—is what I want to carry to Estonia.
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The project proposes a collective field research in a clearly defined, closed-off outdoor area. A square-shaped zone is marked with tape. Within this space, a group of participants investigates the terrain through bodily presence, observational tools, and altered perception. The goal is not to extract data, but to engage: to touch, to observe, to comment, to listen. To allow the landscape to push back.

Technical Description

Participants are equipped with a toolkit of devices that distort or shift perspective: head-sized magnifying lenses, measuring instruments, endoscopes, contact microphones. The group is encouraged to develop their own methods of exploration—playful, tactile, collaborative. Restrictions may be added: wearing protective suits, limiting one’s sense of sight or hearing, or navigating with unfamiliar optical tools. The project becomes a shared attempt to re-learn how to perceive a place—through slowness, constraint, and heightened attention.

References

Fabian Knecht – Isolation: isolating pieces of landscape to shift perception.

Richard Long – walking as a form of marking and knowing land.

Agnes Meyer-Brandis – poetic tools and field experiments with nature.

Timothy Morton – Dark Ecology and The ecological thought : ecological awareness as strange, relational, entangled.

Aesthetic reference: the underground world of Delicatessen (1991) – makeshift tools, sensory distortion, altered habitat perception.

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2025-05-02T14:15:38Z

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GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/The pond diary

2025-01-27T15:53:58Z

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2025-01-16T18:01:08Z

Jan Munske: I added documentation and established the diary of the pond

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GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Jan Munske

2025-01-10T15:17:04Z

Jan Munske:

'''''Eisvogel'''''

''Eisvogel'' originates from a fleeting yet profound sensation the artist experienced while swimming underwater with his grandmother. In those shared moments, there was a sense of connection that transcended words—a silent bond shaped by their surroundings and their mutual immersion in the natural world. His grandmother, with her unique way of perceiving the world, heightened this experience. Her sight was limited, but her sensitivity to sound, touch, and atmosphere gave her a deeply intuitive grasp of her environment.

This memory inspires the search at the heart of ''Eisvogel''. The artist explores the bird’s ecosystem using tools like magnifying glasses, endoscope cameras, mirrors, and lenses. These devices amplify perception but also create a tension between closeness and distance, clarity and distortion. The search becomes more than a physical act; it transforms into a meditation on connection, loss, and the boundaries of understanding.

The work invites viewers to reflect on how we approach what feels beyond reach. Does the act of searching clarify or obscure? Can technology bring us closer to the truth, or does it reveal the limits of what we can know? By blending sensory memories with augmented perspectives, ''Eisvogel'' explores the fragility of connection and the ways we attempt to hold onto it.

Rather than presenting answers, ''Eisvogel'' offers a space for reflection. It encourages us to navigate between what we know, what we feel, and what may always remain elusive.

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GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Jan Munske

2024-12-16T16:37:26Z

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GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Jan Munske

2024-12-16T16:36:42Z

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2024-12-16T13:26:51Z

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2024-11-04T14:26:16Z

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2024-08-15T10:06:19Z

Jan Munske:

Überkochen

Creation Period: January - July 2024

Performance Installation Date: July 13, 2024, 12:00-18:00

The performance installation "Überkochen" uses bureaucracy as a framework to showcase the power and pressure of the kettles, inviting participants to engage with and reflect on this intense process.

Work Description:

The project "Überkochen" began with a memory of the parental kitchen, where a black whistling kettle always stood on the stove. The routine of boiling water involved filling the kettle carelessly, placing it on the stove, turning up the heat, and then attending to other tasks. However, the kettle itself underwent an intense process: a slight cracking of the heating metal, rising steam, groaning under pressure, and finally, the loud whistle announcing the boiling water. This routine, often accompanied by a sprint to the kitchen to remove the kettle in time, left a lasting impression of the kettle's lively, almost human quality.

This fascination led to the collection of used kettles that had already lived a "life." These kettles were set up and heated. The pressure in the kettle rises, and they begin to whistle. By making the pressure process visible, the room was characterized and defined by the pressure of the kettles.

Frustration arose when observers found the kettles aesthetically pleasing but were unwilling to engage with the process for long. The attempt to escape the pressure and whistling of the kettles led to a new approach: a bureaucratic process that forced observers to face the boiling kettles.

A bureaucratic process was introduced, inspired by the work of the artist's father in the German bureaucracy. Observers can take a number and apply for a hot beverage.

„Überkochen" examines the paradoxical nature of bureaucratic processes, where officials, meant to be helpers of the state, often seem unhelpful. This is demonstrated through the ritual of tea preparation. In this performance, the preparation is distinctly German, involving tea bags, cups, and hot water. Despite the lengthy bureaucratic procedure, the applicant eventually receives a cup of tea. This act underscores the tension between the promised assistance and the burdensome reality of bureaucracy, highlighting how help can sometimes feel more like an obligation than a service.

Mr. Munske, the official in the room, instructs participants to take a number. He asks if they would like to apply for a hot beverage and whether they need an English or German form. He explains the form, assigns a place to the applicant, and processes the applications.

Mr. Munske corrects the applicants, cleans tea cups, drinks coffee, and removes tea bags from the packets. He reads the applications, fills water in the kettles, and checks the strength of a table fan.

He pours boiling water on the tea bags, stamps and approves the applications, dates the forms, and uses a red pen. Mr. Munske waits, takes fingerprints, runs his fingers over hanging files, and answers process-relevant questions.

He takes a lunch break, adjusts the temperature of individual hot plates, puts on oven mitts, and carries kettles through the crowd. Throughout, he diligently performs his duties.

This process is deliberately prolonged and requires patience.

Results of the Bureaucratic Process:

- 75 approved and processed applications

- 8 disapproved, invalid applications

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