site specific weaving in Kleine Stadt Farm Vienna
during Feldversuche 25 symposium
collected clothes, garden hose, jute strings, plants from the Lobau area, plastic from the compost, chicken wire, belts, metal chains
90 x 65 x 45 cm
2025

Pictures from the final presentations of the Feldversuche Symposium 25 in Kleine Stadt Farm, Vienna, Austria © Pille-Riin Jaik and 1-4 & 6-8 Peter Oroszlany, 9 Roberto Maccariello.

CONCEPT

The sculpture is woven out of found objects in the farm, animal-print clothes from the secondhand shops and the many interactions gathered during the symposium. Like the story of the snake, who came to the artist Nikolaus’s studio to eat a mouse caught in the trap, or the mystery of the sudden appearance of crustaceans in the yard: Stadtfarm in Vienna can with it's beautiful lushness of nature reservoir between gray heavily trafficked highways leave one often with the feeling of vertigo. The crossing entanglements and unexpected patterns provide a constant of interrelated growths. Woven during the time spent there, the weaving became like a diary of those relation, reflecting in and out of the process. The shape of the sculpture Möbius strip is taken from the concept of physics, where one cant clearly tell which side of the surface they are, when following the shape with their hand or eyes. The shape rotates itself around in a constant process and what is usually inside, is also at one point outside of the shape. In relation to the Kleine Stadt farm, whose manifold work is dedicated to city environmental farming and sustainability, the work questions what feels like nature and what is considered natural (leopard print pants as camouflage in Europe?) in anthropogenic world in polycrises.

Pictures from the exhibition "Margins of the Visible" curated by Mia Milgrom, AVU Gallery and Austrian Cultural Forum, Prague, Czech Republic, © by Pille-Riin Jaik and Janne Charlotte Schipper.