an office
an office is an international group that met at the Salzburg Summer Academy in 2021 during ruangrupa course “becoming lumbung”.
the collective seeks to create a [play]ground for collaborative practices, figuring out ways of learning and unlearning together.
an office operates as a constellation of initiatives, currently in the form of 'departments', which provides proximity for our personal practices to meet each other while keeping fluidity of the common project.
during DEAD DOVE: DO NOT EAT initiative, an office functioned as a spatial intervention team, taking turns occupying the exhibition spaces, creating a living ECOSYSTEM and inviting people to enter and participate in dissecting the respective theatre of galleries and its functions. outside of the art-practices, members of the Garden Department has connected with local communities to create a seed-intervention and offer the collectives DNA represented by their home seeds.
the first intervention took place at ruruHaus underground in August 2022 at Documenta 15 in Kassel, Germany under the name Perpetual Stew. this shared journey continued in September at the Fotograf Festival 12 at Jelení Gallery as Practices of Belonging and was followed by Collective Art Dating event in November at Centrul de Proiecte in Timișoara, Romania.
uncertain space
SPATIU INCERT (en:uncertain space) was formed as a duo in late 2020s as an initiative that looks at different types of ambiguous loss (loss of landscape, identity, loss of those partially present: MIAs, kidnaps, miscarriages or those suffering from degenerative diseases in order to create rituals to cope with these uncertain losses that are not recognised by the society to need the same grief acknowledgement like the certain losses.
our long term goal is to create support groups, identify coping mechanisms and co-create rituals that embed them to allow for large scale reach and impact.
The first iteration of SPATIU INCERT, was developed in 2021 as a new initiative called SOLITAR with the main goal of an interdisciplinary artistic research on the broader topic of ambiguous loss, with our initial focus on caregivers and their cooping mechanisms.