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Ist das Kunst oder kann das schon weg?

This artwork shows how a simple human behaviour, of picking up trash can create a collection. As a collection it looses the term of "trash" and regains new purpose, by displaying it in a pathological way. Thoughts about the past from these objects occur, like where did these come from and why did the previous owner not think about putting it into the actual place it´s supposed to be in: a bin.

This collection also improves the environment in the present, giving it a sustainable sense while making it aesthetically pleasing. For future relevances it´s important to have an overview of what humans leave behind. Making it an overall time factor.

This video shows the most found collectables: Tissue packages, Corona masks, Cigarette boxes, Glas sheds, Banana peels, Candy wrappers, Can openers

Past: memories

What is seen as trash by people who throw them on the ground, rather than putting it into a bin, a collectors mind sees treasure.

Purposeless objects regain a new purpose: Questions about the object create hidden stories of the person who has touched it last. In the past.

Reflect, collect. Collect, reflect.

This artwork is a collection of imagined memories to create new memories.

Present: act of doing

By simply picking up trash the environment gets cleared up.

Two present moments can happen: People who walk past trash feel a dirty surrounding // People who walk in surroundings of no sights of trash feel how it´s sopposed to be.

Clear space = clear mind.

No need to step over past purposeless objects of the unknown people. People are able to breathe. People sense nature. People can have a break from noticing world issues of pollution. People love to notice.

A performance with art: Pure act of doing.

Future: relevance

Collected objects contain a new purpose: Awareness, insights, rethinking of own behaviours and most importantly: Art.

Collected objects in display.

Before / After

The Beauty of Trash

Learn Factor

Through letting go of embarrassment carrying a trash bag around, a higher form of acceptance has been achieved. Even better, people around are thankfull and compliment this work of art. In hope to inspire them to try out such act of kindness themselves or even just reflect on behaviours to change for a greater good brings new teachings on all kinds of levels. By making it fun to do, rather than feeling angry at humanity, it brings ease to the mind. Cleaning up within and on the outside.

Process

/The process of making a sustainable and aesthetic project

On Sustainable Aesthetics

Subjectively speaking, the words have two different meanings, which can collide into one understanding.

Sustainability can be seen as taking eco-friendly ressources and giving it life and therefore great purposes. For example recycling/ upcycling. By using what is already there, we get to make materials or objects more long lasting, without creating new waste.
The aesthetics is what makes the sustainable into some kind of art form. Giving it new life, new meanings and perspectives. Since aesthetic is subjective, the creator has freedom in its expressions and can chose how the art work is presented. Making it a sustainable aesthetic.

Experiments

References

The Martian Garden, https://www.themartiangarden.com
NASA https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/meals_ready_to_eat/
Hito Steyerl - Ausstellung, https://www.museum-joanneum.at/kunsthaus-graz/ausstellungen/ausstellungen/events/event/10951/hito-steyerl
In Kepler's Gardens, https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/en/the-biosphere-project/
Klaus Herbst, Pflanzfabrik, https://www.instagram.com/pflanzfabrik/?hl=en
Living Alone for 2 Years in a Biosphere, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaSRIR9AjFU
How to build a terrarium, Beginners Guide: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2jL3QP4hTA&t=329s
Plastic art: [1]

[2] [3]

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-[[File:Futerrarium.jpeg]]
+==Ist das Kunst oder kann das schon weg?==
-References for plastic art:
+This artwork shows how a simple human behaviour, of picking up trash can create a collection. As a collection it looses the term of "trash" and regains new purpose, by displaying it in a pathological way.
-[https://www.boredpanda.com/plastic-bottle-sculpture-recycle-art-veronika-richterova/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic]
+Thoughts about the past from these objects occur, like where did these come from and why did the previous owner not think about putting it into the actual place it´s supposed to be in: a bin.
-[https://hotelelephant.co.uk/blog/2022/2/4/how-some-artists-have-turned-plastic-waste-into-impactful-works-of-art]
-[https://ecoartdatabase.org/en/showcase/]
+This collection also improves the environment in the present, giving it a sustainable sense while making it aesthetically pleasing. For future relevances it´s important to have an overview of what humans leave behind. Making it an overall time factor.
+[[File:TrashPathologyVideo.mov|600px]]
+'''This video shows the most found collectables:''' Tissue  packages, Corona masks, Cigarette boxes, Glas sheds, Banana peels, Candy wrappers, Can openers
+'''Past: memories'''
+What is seen as trash by people who throw them on the ground, rather than putting it into a bin, a collectors mind sees treasure.
+Purposeless objects regain a new purpose:
+Questions about the object create hidden stories of the person who has touched it last.
+In the past.
+Reflect, collect. Collect, reflect.
+This artwork is a collection of imagined memories to create new memories.
+'''Present: act of doing'''
+By simply picking up trash the environment gets cleared up.
+Two present moments can happen:
+People who walk past trash feel a dirty surrounding // People who walk in surroundings of no sights of trash feel how it´s sopposed to be.
+Clear space = clear mind.
+No need to step over past purposeless objects of the unknown people.
+People are able to breathe. People sense nature. People can have a break from noticing world issues of pollution. People love to notice.
+A performance with art:
+Pure act of doing.
+'''Future: relevance'''
+Collected objects contain a new purpose: Awareness, insights, rethinking of own behaviours and most importantly: Art.
+Collected objects in display.
-My project I want to persue:
-use empty masen jars (my flatmates&me have a huge collection)
-give them a new life by turning them into terrariums
-how to make terrariums:
- > first layer: gravel
- > second layer: soil
- > third layer: taller plants (place them et the back), smaller plants (placed at the front)
- > next step: place moss, nice looking stones and pieces of tree trunks
- > last step: place tiny insects that are good for the little eco-system: for example snails and spring tails
-- by using different types of soil and plants I can experiment with divers terrariums and observe how they will turn out
+'''Before / After'''
-- in my opinion it is a great way to keep the plant life sustainable, learn more about micro-organisms and place them in an aesthetic way
+[[File:TrashBefore.jpeg]] [[File:TrashAfter.jpeg]]
-<gallery>
+'''The Beauty of Trash'''
-File:image3.jpeg
-File:image5.jpeg
-</gallery>
-How to build a terrarium, Beginners Guide: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2jL3QP4hTA&t=329s
+ [[File:Trashbag.jpeg]] [[File:PickUp.jpeg]] [[File:Tobaco.jpeg]] [[File:Trashmilka.jpeg]] [[File:actimel.jpeg]]
-First ideas for my on-going project:
+'''Learn Factor'''
- > turn nettels into ropes and try to make textile or baskets etc. out of it
- > recycle trash into pots for plants + take kitchen scrapes/ herbs/ seeds for regrowing itself.
- > turn natural ressources into colours/ paint. for example thumeric = yellow
- > I could also combine these ideas into one big project: selfmade coloured basket = pot for the regrowing
-         plant.
- > find a new usage for trash
- > generating Bio gas by using compost
-==My understanding of sustainable aesthetics==
+Through letting go of embarrassment carrying a trash bag around, a higher form of acceptance has been achieved. Even better, people around are thankfull and compliment this work of art. In hope to inspire them to try out such act of kindness themselves or even just reflect on behaviours to change for a greater good brings new teachings on all kinds of levels. By making it fun to do, rather than feeling angry at humanity, it brings ease to the mind. Cleaning up within and on the outside.
-In my opinion the words have two different meanings, which can collide into one understanding.
-Sustainability can be seen as taking eco-friendly ressources and giving it life and therefore great purposes. For example recycling/ upcycling. By using what is already there, we get to make materials or objects more long lasting, without creating new waste.
-The aesthetics is what makes the sustainable into some kind of art form. Giving it new life, new meanings and perspectives. Since aesthetic is subjective, the creator has freedom in its expressions and can chose how the art work is presented. Making it a sustainable aesthetic.
+==Process==
+*[[/The process of making a sustainable and aesthetic project]]
-==Documentation of microbial fuel cell==
- > first we made Agar Agar by mixing 1.78grams of Agar Agar with hot water in a glass container, through shaking it, it became more solid over time.
- > we pured the mixture into a plastic straw, let it cool off and then cut the straw into sections to get long solid agar agar pieces.
- > next we prepared the petri dish for the experiment: placing the solid agar agar in the middle. Using hot glue and pouring diagonal line over agar agar piece to create a wall
- > now the petri dish has two seperate sides with an agar agar bridge in the middle
- > we then glued a cable on each side that sticks out of the petri dish
- > then we placed assembled mudd on one side of petri dish over the glued cable and water on the other
- > we made sure it contracts the agar agar bridge in the middle
- > the microbial fuel cell is created
- > last step to confirm the electricity flow, we connected claw clips from a digital multimeter to the cables that stick out the petri dish and observed the electricity outcome
- > it ranged from 0.012 - 0.300 volt
-[[File:microbial fuel1.jpeg]] [[File:microbial fuel.jpeg]]
+[[File:canopeners1.jpeg|400px]]
+==On Sustainable Aesthetics==
+Subjectively speaking, the words have two different meanings, which can collide into one understanding.
+*Sustainability can be seen as taking eco-friendly ressources and giving it life and therefore great purposes. For example recycling/ upcycling. By using what is already there, we get to make materials or objects more long lasting, without creating new waste.
+*The aesthetics is what makes the sustainable into some kind of art form. Giving it new life, new meanings and perspectives. Since aesthetic is subjective, the creator has freedom in its expressions and can chose how the art work is presented. Making it a sustainable aesthetic.
-- I tried to build a Joule Thief.
+==Experiments==
-[[File:Joulethief.jpeg]]
+*[[Documentation of microbial fuel cell]]
+*[[Building a Joule Thief]]
 ==References==
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 *Klaus Herbst, Pflanzfabrik, https://www.instagram.com/pflanzfabrik/?hl=en
 *Living Alone for 2 Years in a Biosphere, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaSRIR9AjFU
+*How to build a terrarium, Beginners Guide: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2jL3QP4hTA&t=329s
+*Plastic art: [https://www.boredpanda.com/plastic-bottle-sculpture-recycle-art-veronika-richterova/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic]
+[https://hotelelephant.co.uk/blog/2022/2/4/how-some-artists-have-turned-plastic-waste-into-impactful-works-of-art]
+[https://ecoartdatabase.org/en/showcase/]