Urban Worlding through Assemblage
A workshop with Vik Bayer as part of the event Let's stick with the unicorns: Aesthetic Consequences of Care, Tidying & Re.Use.
In the workshop we will work with our urban surroundings. We will question which narratives are inhabiting these spaces and how they differ depending from where we gaze. We will listen, read a poem together, will draw and collect material which we then assemble to a collective miniature exhibition. The process of assemblage provides space for collective speculation and for drafting possible stories through the material.
Vik Bayer is a non-binary, multidisciplinary artist whose practice centers on critical ecologies. It spans sculpture, video, performance, text, printmaking and research. Oftentimes materializing in collaborative and long-term processes with other artists, researchers, and farmers, their projects spotlight alternative forms of production like community-based economies, commons, agricultural modes of care and speculative infrastructures of a post-growth paradigm. Vik Bayer lives and works in Vienna, Austria.