Is blood thicker than water? Does it mean any blood and what are the criteria for exclusion? The work series is a meditation on negative spaces, spaces of exclusion subverting the wisdom of this proverb. 
The works are parts of the [The] Y Animal and Flower Coordinates projects supported by the project grants of the Hessische Kulturstiftung.
Foto: Katrin Binner

Surface Tensions III (left), Thicker Than Blood 8 & 9 (right)

Brainwashing Machine

Triggered by the fire of Notre Dame
Explores material imagination and element of fire through the lens of the philosophical works by Gaston Bachelard.
Concerned with the role of the faith and imagination for the meaning making as a key human activity .A „Fire“ series of works dealing with the history of deaths by burning on stake, of  the demolition of Russian churches, of the rainforest fires and the fire in Krefeld zoo.

Geometries Of The Echoes

The work is a part of [The] Y Animal project supported by the grant of the Hessische Kulturstiftung. Informed by the insights of the Human-Animal studies,  the project included artistic research in Zurich, Basel, Opel and Frankfurt zoos. The work concentrates on manifestations of animal agency and on structures restricting it
Foto: Katrin Binner

Joys Of Survival

Thicker Than Blood Series (I to VII)
Is blood thicker than water? Does it mean any blood and what are the criteria for exclusion? The work series is a meditation on negative spaces, spaces of exclusion subverting the wisdom of this proverb. 
Ultimate conflict of the materials is used to indicate the zones of concern. The focus remains on the body and its vulnerability as a common denominator for human and non-human animals. Thicker Than Blood’s axis is depth as a dimension traditionally denied to non-humans. Adverse substances are precariously balanced here, the fear of hybridity is counterbalanced by a hope, a moral alarm set against a predatorial hype. 
Reversible materials like wax, tin, glass splitters are used in Thicker Than Blood. The materials in question are able to undergo both, metamorphosis and transformation, repeatedly. Experimental techniques of attempt-and-response are being experimented with to allow for unfolding of the agency and memory of the substances. 
This approach is particularly sensitive to the relation of the body, materials, place and space.
Foto: Katrin Binner



Thicker Than Blood 

Inter[no]face I

Syncopation is well known to musicians, linguists but also to doctors. In music it occurs when rhythmic accent is placed where it wouldn’t be normally expected.  Here it provides for tension and originality. In medicine, however, it designates an unexpected collapse and loss of consciousness. 
As the title suggests, in this work a potential of the unexpected is celebrated. 

The series consists of several works developed during the Covid-19 lockdown and are informed by Bruno Latour’s theories. The ideas of the French sociologist concerning non-human agency were successfully applied on the interspecies relationships by the philosopher Vinciane Despret. Her insights gained a new meaning during the pandemic. When zillions of non-human actors enter the stage, when a comfortable verticality is challenged, a new hybrid space emerges.


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