https://franciscamarkus.com francisca markus Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:23:10 +0000 https://franciscamarkus.com en https://franciscamarkus.com/Home-1 Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:11:39 +0000 francisca markus https://franciscamarkus.com/Home-1 <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a822c5679ea17bf87548c63ef1b7ca463cd6e499e07ddda59ed7f14e7230f9f/IMG_3588.JPG" data-mid="250374288" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a822c5679ea17bf87548c63ef1b7ca463cd6e499e07ddda59ed7f14e7230f9f/IMG_3588.JPG" /> https://franciscamarkus.com/About Mon, 29 Aug 2022 11:17:47 +0000 francisca markus https://franciscamarkus.com/About My works are situations. Situations that involve and evolve in space, with me and with you. Situations to feel. Situations for making connections. Situations that allow vulnerability. Situations to come together. Situations that raise questions. Situations that are often awkward. Spherical situations, something is in the air. Situations to relate to with your body. Situations that relate to your body. Situations that give and make space. Francisca Markus (*1995, in Münster GER) lives and works in Deventer, NL.In her work Markus develops performative installations, that explore spaces and their influence on interactions and relationships. With a humorous approach, her works undermine established ways of doing things, both within institutional frameworks and in private moments, and raise questions on connectedness. Of special interest in her work are food, drinks, (dream) diaries, the everyday, and public space. Francisca Markus often works collaboratively, in various roles such as facilitator or artist-curator. Her main collective practice is together with the collective Young Valley Soil. <img width="2480" height="3508" width_o="2480" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e12876a428553fab46a130be61e90c7192021c6ba4d700130a5dd6bfaa4d7ae9/scheme-practice_NEU-HOCHKANT.png" data-mid="241894236" border="0" data-scale="46" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e12876a428553fab46a130be61e90c7192021c6ba4d700130a5dd6bfaa4d7ae9/scheme-practice_NEU-HOCHKANT.png" /> Education 2023 Master of Fine Arts - HfbK Hamburg 2022 Semester at Art and Public Space - KHIO Art Academy of Oslo 2020 Bachelor of Fine Arts - HfbK Hamburg 2019 Semester at Wimbledon College of Art, London Exhibitions2026 De Staat Van, Bergkerk Deventer (upcoming) 2025Mares and Night Hags, Künstler*innenhaus FRISE Hamburg 2024 Step, Scuff, Stomp, Hook. And fall (x2), All you ever WANTED, De Staat Van, groupshow, Bergkerk Deventer in Collaboration with Kunstenlab Deventer, NLAll the King’s Horses Are Riding Backwards, Performance Festival, Performing Landscapes, Art Au Centre and Very Very Contemporary, Liège, BEDear Y., How = Het Nu 2024, ACEC Gebouw, Apeldoorn, NL Butter, Audiowork at Open Mic from Haben wir noch Butter? Performance-Summerparty, at Kunstverein Gastgarten Butter, audiowork with Elisa Nessler and Anne Meerpohl, Gruppe Motto/Hallo:Radio "Essen", Hamburg Don’t cry over spilllllled tears anymore. solo,&nbsp;Art Au Centre, Liège, BE&nbsp; 2023 To stumble invisibly,&nbsp;nyt. Art Space, Berlin (solo) Fest, with Young Valley Soil, group show No More Lonely Laundry, MOM art space, Hamburg&nbsp; A Glimpse and A Taste - Tapete 64/66, With Delia Prezioso, Esmarchstraße 64/66, my old flat in Hamburg 2022 SPP,&nbsp;with Master Art and Public Space, Resepjongallery, Art Academy Oslo Told You I‘ll be here forever, groupshow Frappant e.V. Hamburg Chatty Matter, groupshow,&nbsp;Hundred Years Gallery, LondonBark beetles mapped hidden worlds, groupshow,&nbsp;Frappant Galerie e.V. Hamburg 2021 A Misunderstood Careless Whisper, Duo with Elina Saalfeld, Einstellungsraum e.V. Hamburg SALON MEDUSA I, groupshow,&nbsp;EKS rummet CopenhagenTRIADE, groupshow,&nbsp;Frappant Galerie e.V., HamburgTrying to be a spider - Chapter One, groupshow,&nbsp;Frappant Galerie, Hamburg 2020 Crossings of O, with Young Valley Soil,&nbsp;SeeUth3ere, HFBK &amp; Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof Vielleicht träumen wir alle gleichzeitig?,&nbsp;Golden Pudel Club Hamburg with Young Valley Soil2018Performance for „School for invisibilities“ - Cité des arts Paris Curation and Production (excerpt)2026 Screening Producer for IMPAKT Utrecht Festival: Techno Ancestrality 2024 Screening Producer for IMPAKT Utrecht Festival: Deal With It 2023 Conserving a long walk,&nbsp;Co-Curation with Laura Schneider, ZUS Fest at PARKS, Hamburg 2022 Curation and Organisation, ZUS Fest at Schaltzentrale e.V. Hamburg Curatorial Assistant, for Agnieszka Roguski, M.1 Arthur Boskamp Stiftung Hohenlockstedt 2021 I never promised you a rose garden,&nbsp;curatorial takeover - Einstellungsraum, Hamburg With Mosses Airs and Bees, We Dance Along With Trees, curation, concept and organisation,&nbsp;group show in a forest in Nottuln (NRW) 15-21 Assistant for Summerprogram of Kunstschule Offenburg Sponsorships2026&nbsp; Kunststipendium der ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS with Young Valley SoilJeannette Hollaar Fonds (projectfund)Stichting Wesselings - van Breemen (projectfund)2025 Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg (projectfund) with Young Valley Soil 20-23 Cusanuswerk (study sponsorship for Mfa) 2021Kulturförderung Nottuln Residencies (excerpt) 2025FRISE Künstler*innenhaus Hamburg with&nbsp;Young Valley SoilAndreas Züst Bibliothek in Oberegg, CH&nbsp;with Young Valley SoilDe Ruimte Residency in Deventer (NL) 2024 Residency at M.1 Arthur Boskamp Stiftung with Young Valley Soil&nbsp; Mediation (excerpt) 2024 workshop with Elisa Nessler for They Say it’s Aufwandsentschädigung, invited by Anne Meerpohl, MKG Freiraum Hamburg 2023public guided tours through exhibitions at Kunstverein in Hamburg 2022 pasta making - let‘s talk elasticity,&nbsp;workshop at ROM galleri in Oslo ON SITE - VOR ORT,&nbsp;workshop with Agnieszka Roguski at M.1 Arthur Boskamp Stiftungpublic guided tours at M.1 Arthur Boskamp Stiftung 21-23public guided tours through exhibitions at HFBK Hamburg https://franciscamarkus.com/support Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:23:10 +0000 francisca markus https://franciscamarkus.com/support Every artist, just as any person, needs various supportsystems.&nbsp; You want my support? -&gt; hit me up on mail@franciscamarkus.com click on donate, if you want to support me with a financial contribution:&nbsp; <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_NL/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1" style="width: 1px; height: 1px;">Do you have other forms, ways, or ideas on how to support me? I am curious to hear them via mail@franciscamarkus.com T-Shirt: By Young Valley Soil - one of my main supportsystems https://franciscamarkus.com/INDEX_artistic Tue, 13 Dec 2022 11:10:22 +0000 francisca markus https://franciscamarkus.com/INDEX_artistic 2024 Don’t Cry Over Spilllllled Tears Anymore 2023 To Stumble Invisibly (Un)Monument for (Re)-Positioning FestFollowing a Line of Thought 2022 Figure for ThoughtsOde To Scream And Cry RIVERTALKSChatty Matter ,Holding, Forcing, Laying, Object of Forgotten Memory I have another knot in my handkerchief 2021 Misunderstood Careless Whisper With Mosses, Airs and Bees, We Dance Along with Trees For Thinking Thoughts twice, I don’t have to be Two inbetween&nbsp;Thresholds Notation for a Forlorny Humming Time is not just numbers 2020 O Paths A conversation - talking with air I extend my space to yours vielleicht träumen wir alle gleichzeitig?Directions of reactions 2019 Horror Feelings in the air vs. I don’t know anything 2018 Standing on fields Mit dem ersten Pfiff hört er auf und der nächste beginnt I am moving between my bed and my fridge GrowingMoving Through Interstices Your Soul, You Body, Your Ritual Peepshow Hotline 2017 toissileen - towards each other transfer / Fuga Furca Oh Darling, it’s a stovepipe If there wasn’t a wall, would I fall? appetizing 2016 24 Hours https://franciscamarkus.com/Following-a-Movement-fo-Thought Tue, 14 Feb 2023 16:23:04 +0000 francisca markus https://franciscamarkus.com/Following-a-Movement-fo-Thought Following a Line of ThoughtAuditorium HFBK Hamburg anual exhibitionperformative Voiceover&nbsp; One-Channel Video Work 14:59 min <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14bb6c3ae8c818fd3704e409dd46f703e80faf63c2b97fe749f11d72b68819ae/IMG_9418.jpeg" data-mid="168406422" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14bb6c3ae8c818fd3704e409dd46f703e80faf63c2b97fe749f11d72b68819ae/IMG_9418.jpeg" /> <img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed1bdd91b89569488858def3aaa9c8eda0a1c81412b888f249f5493601e3ae96/259f018c-4993-48db-80c1-d924730800d5.jpeg" data-mid="168406424" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/ed1bdd91b89569488858def3aaa9c8eda0a1c81412b888f249f5493601e3ae96/259f018c-4993-48db-80c1-d924730800d5.jpeg" /> <img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd531fdd5703b6d3debf7ef9ae298c938c39e36e64e089066c65892a6328b889/3f1210c2-39fa-41a2-bd29-a569b1e0295b.jpeg" data-mid="168406427" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd531fdd5703b6d3debf7ef9ae298c938c39e36e64e089066c65892a6328b889/3f1210c2-39fa-41a2-bd29-a569b1e0295b.jpeg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f415529c6f9a275b517c99771bcaa097a8ca10a584b12f6cb6c840ba1b78a830/IMG_9446.jpeg" data-mid="168406428" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f415529c6f9a275b517c99771bcaa097a8ca10a584b12f6cb6c840ba1b78a830/IMG_9446.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d243938915f082399ad98975787a1776a1a17439be24bcadb9b586aeae5db04c/IMG_9462.jpeg" data-mid="168406430" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d243938915f082399ad98975787a1776a1a17439be24bcadb9b586aeae5db04c/IMG_9462.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35197bcc075e5d5b22941d0a3dabe8dd6b2973602cdc163ad3c100c371a86e5a/IMG_9470.jpeg" data-mid="168406431" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35197bcc075e5d5b22941d0a3dabe8dd6b2973602cdc163ad3c100c371a86e5a/IMG_9470.jpeg" /> <img width="828" height="1792" width_o="828" height_o="1792" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d97f791d0ca5404abb5416ad742c1f35db1814e5fd05d850da1b9f1b269a3105/IMG_9474.png" data-mid="168406496" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/828/i/d97f791d0ca5404abb5416ad742c1f35db1814e5fd05d850da1b9f1b269a3105/IMG_9474.png" /> <img width="828" height="1792" width_o="828" height_o="1792" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1571c1b7233d2fb46aac8f0376a4df403e2cc0dd03f154dbcac9139bed43ada3/IMG_9475.png" data-mid="168406434" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/828/i/1571c1b7233d2fb46aac8f0376a4df403e2cc0dd03f154dbcac9139bed43ada3/IMG_9475.png" /> https://franciscamarkus.com/Figures-For-Thoughts Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:19:04 +0000 francisca markus https://franciscamarkus.com/Figures-For-Thoughts Figures for ThoughtGroupshow: short precise perfectAt Receptiongallery from KHIO 07:17 One Channel no Sound <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0394ff5440e0303830e655adac76a132375d7afa3b86724a53809ee326ee912/2A6A9974.JPG" data-mid="165151851" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0394ff5440e0303830e655adac76a132375d7afa3b86724a53809ee326ee912/2A6A9974.JPG" /> <img width="4480" height="6720" width_o="4480" height_o="6720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/719c2efc92bd70a60886c3a31f2c0b82e5f6411d7478030ce8cd5f5eb6629692/2A6A9962.JPG" data-mid="162546295" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/719c2efc92bd70a60886c3a31f2c0b82e5f6411d7478030ce8cd5f5eb6629692/2A6A9962.JPG" /> <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3331e5679bc26715dd32ee4eb1f68e80636595bf4103d3c4661e69072e0898cf/2A6A9988.JPG" data-mid="162546297" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3331e5679bc26715dd32ee4eb1f68e80636595bf4103d3c4661e69072e0898cf/2A6A9988.JPG" /> With the Video research Figures For Thoughts I put together in a non narrative way a field of raviours research that encounters amongst others String Theory, Knot theory, the situationist movement, and the very everyday encounter with knotted rubber bands in public space. Videowork, recommended to see via Phone or Pad, laid down on a flat surface or the floor.&nbsp; I realised this work during my Erasmus exchange at KHIO, Kunsthogskole i Oslo, and I would like to share at this point the carious materials, and references that were shared with me bz wonderful co-students and teachers: ︎&nbsp;single tutorial 1&nbsp; ︎&nbsp;single tutorial 2&nbsp; ︎&nbsp;Group Crit 1&nbsp; ︎&nbsp;Group Crit 2&nbsp; references collected from shared document:&nbsp; Belén: Ideas: I have no specific suggestion 😊 but two images: Note: Complex ideas in dialogue with the visual Le musée imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale (André Malraux) Atlas Mnemosyne (Aby Warburg) Atlas Group – lebanese artist group working with archives Ebba: Some Artists working with Performance lecture: &nbsp;Erik Bünger: https://www.erikbunger.com/ Akraam Zatari – individual artist also member of atlas group Walid Raad - individual artist also member of atlas group Aase Texmon Rygh&nbsp; - norwegian sculpture working with möbius&nbsp; references gathered with and from Malin Graesse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Institute_of_Comparative_Vandalism https://sicv.activearchives.org/logbook/ https://torpedobok.no/These-Are-Situationist-Times-1 https://www.jennifergabrys.net/publications/ https://forfatterweb.dk/rudolf-broby-johansen https://franciscamarkus.com/Ode-To-Scream-and-Cry Tue, 29 Nov 2022 07:02:08 +0000 francisca markus https://franciscamarkus.com/Ode-To-Scream-and-Cry Ode To Scream and Cry Silk-Satin Print, 85 x 55 cm December 2022 shown at group show&nbsp;Told You I’ll be here forever at frappant Galerie e.V.&nbsp;Hamburg with Anne Meerpohl, Elisa Nessler, Elina Saalfeld, Mona Rizaj, Priska Engelhardt, Anne Meyer, Jana Pfort <img width="1304" height="1952" width_o="1304" height_o="1952" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b9eb8464ca70890b893938c12b86e92b21a15a095b377134f4a9f4ccbf94b5c/Told-You-I-ll-be-here-forever_-Detail_FranciscaMarkus.jpg" data-mid="161830030" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b9eb8464ca70890b893938c12b86e92b21a15a095b377134f4a9f4ccbf94b5c/Told-You-I-ll-be-here-forever_-Detail_FranciscaMarkus.jpg" /> <img width="911" height="1364" width_o="911" height_o="1364" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47fd465ee31dc0237d4a182c7da08e0dca43eac2df1b6cc815fc37dfbc86b857/_DSC3514.jpg" data-mid="161835781" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/911/i/47fd465ee31dc0237d4a182c7da08e0dca43eac2df1b6cc815fc37dfbc86b857/_DSC3514.jpg" /> Fotodocumentation- closeups by Elina Saalfeld <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/775cd4547c55662816eb096666578913db04d11a0efc1be39ee5a9cd83f60f28/IMG_0910.JPG" data-mid="166536359" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/775cd4547c55662816eb096666578913db04d11a0efc1be39ee5a9cd83f60f28/IMG_0910.JPG" /> exhibtionview with work by Elisa Nessler in the Front Ode To Scream and Cry For the exhibition I am showing the image below printed on silk-satin, 60x90cm. I was doubting weather to produce something for the exhibiton or to show the video that I will be showing at the same time in KhiO at the Resepjongalleri. I decided against that simultaneity of showing the same video that is dealing with space in two different spaces. It would have felt like forcing this simultaneity of space onto the work, which for this work is not key.&nbsp;I wrote this Ode to scream and cry. In the text I write about bats, orientation and relation. I was imagining that this soft silk-satin caresses the feeling of being lost or without orientation. The textile will be hanging in the space and therefor hopefully be readable from one side, and not from the other. It asks to be related with and to.&nbsp; further information: https://frappant.org/home/artikel/news/told-you-ill-be-here-forever/collectively written exhibtion text: What has changed about you? Do we still speak the same language? How does friendship work as a long-distance relationship? When we started studying art together, intensive relationships developed in addition to productive exchanges. And now - after social distancing and graduation, after a lot of time has passed and many of us have gone to other places - how do we get back together? And our works? Are they also uncertain at first, suddenly so close, afraid of contact? A web of thoughts and feelings, independent of each other and yet connected. Between voice message and note to ourselves, shared diary and the location of friendship in time and space. <img width="3543" height="5315" width_o="3543" height_o="5315" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/231f8a58a3b7d6436279485ca234cba9773a8d1eaa57efe96006cc9508920140/seidenprint_small.jpg" data-mid="160455449" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/231f8a58a3b7d6436279485ca234cba9773a8d1eaa57efe96006cc9508920140/seidenprint_small.jpg" /> https://franciscamarkus.com/chatty-matter Tue, 29 Nov 2022 07:01:52 +0000 francisca markus https://franciscamarkus.com/chatty-matter Chatty Matter group show at Hundred Years Gallery, London, september 2022with Elena Greta Falcini and Jo De Hulsters, guest: Emily Shapiro <img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1fa56021336144ca6349cf7cf465cf921431eea135d36d6fce79bee790efc727/DSC03672.JPG" data-mid="160455587" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1fa56021336144ca6349cf7cf465cf921431eea135d36d6fce79bee790efc727/DSC03672.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/477e23dd6bfebcf5f82f2fed9c9b6348699dc4c3d90780095d09e1d3b056bb84/DSC03612.JPG" data-mid="160455589" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/477e23dd6bfebcf5f82f2fed9c9b6348699dc4c3d90780095d09e1d3b056bb84/DSC03612.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c906b609854b1beebb9409f4cd7316c244d785dc3d03a1b2fdbcd8e4fef24715/DSC03819.JPG" data-mid="160455588" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c906b609854b1beebb9409f4cd7316c244d785dc3d03a1b2fdbcd8e4fef24715/DSC03819.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/22932131d02c9430f0a0ad258f5840d91da30b9172f6c443ca14ab5c804b58ab/DSC03790.JPG" data-mid="160455593" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/22932131d02c9430f0a0ad258f5840d91da30b9172f6c443ca14ab5c804b58ab/DSC03790.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/075995fe1c4a63a4e28270f5860591b00516ca30eccfcb26088fd8a8c0471db6/DSC03788.JPG" data-mid="160455591" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/075995fe1c4a63a4e28270f5860591b00516ca30eccfcb26088fd8a8c0471db6/DSC03788.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3925fb62719e0bd82e38880be60d266bd7c44a89edb54e9ad0e3def8e5eac76/DSC03744.JPG" data-mid="160455594" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b3925fb62719e0bd82e38880be60d266bd7c44a89edb54e9ad0e3def8e5eac76/DSC03744.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd69fed71e08253722b2b916b847985206fdf54e6cba3dd59b87783c471f55f4/DSC03783.JPG" data-mid="160455590" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd69fed71e08253722b2b916b847985206fdf54e6cba3dd59b87783c471f55f4/DSC03783.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/806ed4e436fd3c6bad1ffc2c8b8116e3fe8f0af89baf88c7d8e0a9f6e97a462a/DSC03782.JPG" data-mid="160455592" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/806ed4e436fd3c6bad1ffc2c8b8116e3fe8f0af89baf88c7d8e0a9f6e97a462a/DSC03782.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64e40f013814d137d6f99c77d8cd5d3c24ed9ec469b0e0e6c3a94bf92c7ad0cc/DSC03781.JPG" data-mid="160455598" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64e40f013814d137d6f99c77d8cd5d3c24ed9ec469b0e0e6c3a94bf92c7ad0cc/DSC03781.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f4bbcf1784cc775f8d79da7a10865e2b1413457689966f863ac46ff70a33237/DSC03736.JPG" data-mid="160455595" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f4bbcf1784cc775f8d79da7a10865e2b1413457689966f863ac46ff70a33237/DSC03736.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efbda7d34276a95db7ca9d5ca60970377c2e7ee940ed6366c94571d1970052e2/DSC03732.JPG" data-mid="160455596" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/efbda7d34276a95db7ca9d5ca60970377c2e7ee940ed6366c94571d1970052e2/DSC03732.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9acb7fa1abfda146fe1a3cf80935198c08ac0c0b92fbd6318203f7f2af9998be/DSC03716.JPG" data-mid="160455597" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9acb7fa1abfda146fe1a3cf80935198c08ac0c0b92fbd6318203f7f2af9998be/DSC03716.JPG" /> The exhibition Chatty Matter was split up into two days. One day was solely a day of buliding up the exhibtion through leaving traces of working on and with our artstic material. We each approached working in a performative improvised way, using brought matter. The artists differ in the interest into matter and brought these differences into this gallery in a sympoetic approach. On the second day we curated the space with these traces and used this variable setting again as a performative working platform. I was showing my videowork in process which I used as base or ground to exmine the materiality but also the matter of elasticity. The video work is showing a collection of photos, that I took in the public space of rubber bands, laying on the floor in different figurations. The collection includes about 100 photos, that each describe a individual (un)knot figure. The photos are a starting point of a bigger research around string theory, knot theory, space. Along the narratiovn of these rubber bands I collected sound, movement forms and words that now will find their way back into the video. (The videowork will later on result into Figures for Thought) What is artistic material? And how do we encounter it?Matter means 3 different things to us: Substance, soil, issue. Our practices combine different disciplines such as live sound, installation, performance and sculpture.The exhibition “Chatty Matter” is a reunion of three artists (Elena Greta Falcini, Francisca Markus and Jozef De Hulsters) at the hundred years gallery in London. We plan to exhibit material in process as material to be processed, investigated, shared and argued for through a chat with the exhibition visitors. We are curious to start conversations with the audience via our artistic materials triggering and guiding them. The installation of the exhibition is an improvisation of its own happening while we are gathering our matter with the audience. Therefore we want to involve and be involved in the actual space, and make thoughts visible. Following the principles of improvisation and experimentation, we want to work with the incomplete. The incomplete as an invitation to the audience to follow the process and maybe even to create new paths for the work. The incomplete and raw material, deliberately chosen for this occasion out of our pool of artistic materials we usually work with, proposes an eye to eye relationship with the audience, inviting for taking place and part of it. The playful and experimental approach of improvisation challenges to act on a never visited cosmos. “Chatty Matter” celebrates the moment and the unplanned encounter rather than handicraft or technique. It explores what potential artistic material has when discovered and brought about in direct conversation with the artist. We need no knowledge, only intuition for the material and the sharing. This concept was collectively written by Elena Greta Falcini, Francisca Markus, Franziska Windolf and Jozef de Hulsters further informationhttp://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/exhibition-chatty-matter/ https://franciscamarkus.com/rivertalks Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:24:29 +0000 francisca markus https://franciscamarkus.com/rivertalks Rivertalks collaborative Video research with Vida Aasen Screening of a researchpoem onto the river Åkerselva&nbsp; <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aba30aba75b64c1a6a00ce56528e0fc8980437cd8b8f3149de4d946e5c8f44d2/2L1A1310.JPG" data-mid="159960698" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aba30aba75b64c1a6a00ce56528e0fc8980437cd8b8f3149de4d946e5c8f44d2/2L1A1310.JPG" /> <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a3dd14e985193e1669d482feb26433ca96b3621f0fc9d01e727368760af58bed/2L1A1320.JPG" data-mid="159960707" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a3dd14e985193e1669d482feb26433ca96b3621f0fc9d01e727368760af58bed/2L1A1320.JPG" /> <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c5bc8f9f8e48b4726d08eb67f95dbc4d54ff5e52896dbbcb4d3c6030f614c6a/2L1A1313.JPG" data-mid="159960702" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c5bc8f9f8e48b4726d08eb67f95dbc4d54ff5e52896dbbcb4d3c6030f614c6a/2L1A1313.JPG" /> <img width="4480" height="6720" width_o="4480" height_o="6720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32382d7f250621d06dbb0275ab49bc38ac17a24ea56cf15b233199fec4869771/2L1A1331.JPG" data-mid="159960710" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32382d7f250621d06dbb0275ab49bc38ac17a24ea56cf15b233199fec4869771/2L1A1331.JPG" /> <img width="4480" height="6720" width_o="4480" height_o="6720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eaf9abac519016149fccdf5f86d4a18363b9bde8ee439ce698aec650f7debfc7/2L1A1366.JPG" data-mid="159960713" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eaf9abac519016149fccdf5f86d4a18363b9bde8ee439ce698aec650f7debfc7/2L1A1366.JPG" /> <img width="4480" height="6720" width_o="4480" height_o="6720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f774fde202e6d2b4cbdb7ddb10072fc2058b4b862b7dc1ee63b911f78b65632/2L1A1373.JPG" data-mid="159960714" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f774fde202e6d2b4cbdb7ddb10072fc2058b4b862b7dc1ee63b911f78b65632/2L1A1373.JPG" /> I grew up in a small town called Nottuln, in Germany, close to the (former) high impacting industrial Area Ruhrgebiet. My father grew up in the 60ies 70ies in this Area in different towns and has always been taken us, his family, to different places. So as a child I used to visit old factories a lot, that either had been turned into a museum about for example the labour at the former textile factory or into spaces for art and culture. I was always to very intrigued into visiting these places and fascinated to see the shift in labour, the so triste seeming-like factories and surroundings. As if that made me nostalgic, without having and actual connection to that labour.&nbsp; When I came to Oslo and visited Khio for the first time I became aware of the buildings past history as the former Chistiania Seildugsfabrik, the Christiania Sailcloth factory. &nbsp;It felt like coming home to me. This building with its bricks in a specific colour, the way of dealing with old and new architecture, the usage of the old building with this vibrant art school... I felt like coming home, as my “home institution”, a term borrowed from the bureaucratic word you have to do for the Erasmus papers, doesn’t feel like home to me. Khio is though not a home, it is a rented place, a temporal allowance to be somewhere.&nbsp; but this somewhere is a place that was a temporary somewhere to others. I got interested into researching, what role plays the location, next to the river Akerselva? what was labour in Christiania Seildugsfabrik like, and to what and where was it connected.&nbsp; You cannot find a lot of research material online, eventhough councils in Norway and of Oslo are digitalizing material as photos.&nbsp; The research that the labour museum of Oslo had put into is laid out in the labour museum and accessible on english as well, even though when not completely translated. You can see some impressions further down on the page.&nbsp; As the labour museum emphasized the stories from individuals working at Christiania Seidugsfabrik, I got aware of the individual story from Harriet Kristine Hansen. The only woman that was retracable as female worker in the factory. Who where her colleagues? What was their life like? What were responsibilities? What were their worries, sorrows?&nbsp; In the further work with Vida, we collaboratively wrote a text that goes into this poetic way of dealing with research around the River Akerselva and it’s deeply connected and influenced way of existence next to this building, where Khio is nowadays situated.&nbsp; rivertalks from Francisca Markus on Vimeo. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ba075d5e5c4e701981a6fde3d7a850dda0ad4717ee00d08a6011ba6801d3ad1/IMG_6753.jpeg" data-mid="159971507" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2ba075d5e5c4e701981a6fde3d7a850dda0ad4717ee00d08a6011ba6801d3ad1/IMG_6753.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64d1fcdc309226ada57e5143c8709a4d6318f4fca3d38b753dd659f34b352309/IMG_6744.jpeg" data-mid="159971631" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64d1fcdc309226ada57e5143c8709a4d6318f4fca3d38b753dd659f34b352309/IMG_6744.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/769fef8981d76bc818159c4af2bff5a77fbe18764e464bbca9d4f43bfecf8651/IMG_6752.jpeg" data-mid="159971510" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/769fef8981d76bc818159c4af2bff5a77fbe18764e464bbca9d4f43bfecf8651/IMG_6752.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8efdca2ba513db5fc4753888d104563dc04c9eab52d3c1ae51e6913fc660d2a9/IMG_6755.jpeg" data-mid="159971513" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8efdca2ba513db5fc4753888d104563dc04c9eab52d3c1ae51e6913fc660d2a9/IMG_6755.jpeg" /> Impressions from the labour museum https://franciscamarkus.com/Holding-Forcing-Laying Wed, 21 Dec 2022 08:54:00 +0000 francisca markus https://franciscamarkus.com/Holding-Forcing-Laying Holding, Forcing, Laying, invited and curated by Frederik Vium and Cristina Rüesch march 2022 at Frappant Galerie, group show 2nd Chapter and bark beetles mapped hidden worlds paperobject with stitched words exhibitionviews by&nbsp;Mathias Bro <img width="1872" height="1248" width_o="1872" height_o="1248" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa4fb7ee1dbf50b1ba0bc690be220bb36036df4563dc985972d2f81e28d8cd1a/116.jpg" data-mid="199219278" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa4fb7ee1dbf50b1ba0bc690be220bb36036df4563dc985972d2f81e28d8cd1a/116.jpg" /> <img width="874" height="1310" width_o="874" height_o="1310" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8dda434d9e3aff2ec43713d52ab44d843b0fa467e153d8e1ad8b262595e2e78/1152.jpg" data-mid="199219279" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/874/i/c8dda434d9e3aff2ec43713d52ab44d843b0fa467e153d8e1ad8b262595e2e78/1152.jpg" /> <img width="1560" height="1040" width_o="1560" height_o="1040" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/707bf2c4d0a4e5873e5008dbaf29798ff38b0e216d11928a59e400d6cac51293/117.jpg" data-mid="199218902" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/707bf2c4d0a4e5873e5008dbaf29798ff38b0e216d11928a59e400d6cac51293/117.jpg" /> <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87db677cb298cc41fb879345757d192a6a678b12d0486b9d8593d1ba815f7fbe/14.jpeg" data-mid="199218776" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87db677cb298cc41fb879345757d192a6a678b12d0486b9d8593d1ba815f7fbe/14.jpeg" /> Holding, Forcing, Laying is the peeled skin of&nbsp;Object of forgotten memory. The core of this work is of intimate matter, an elaboration on embodied traumas, and on the work with them. What seemed interesting to me was to compare embodied traumas to knots, a textile exists out of coherent knots, traumas and emotions as well. This two knots are coherent as well. One knot is speaking a text, on which this work is based on. I call it Object of forgotten memory.&nbsp; The other, Holding, Forcing, Laying is a knotted paperinstallation. This knot hangs in the exhibition space, and is held by two knotted yarns, which are hidden by paper objects. On the paperobject one can, or cannot, reads word which are sewed into the object. The inscribe into the knot the process of un-knotting. A list of ambiguous verbs is winds itself along the knot. maybe unthreadening a trauma, or maybe entangling even more in and with it.&nbsp; 2nd Chapter: and bark beetles mapped hidden worlds Follow the lines under the crust. A landscape, a letter, a warm invitation To a sphere where shape-shifters, ambivalent creatures and magical disorders meet and nest. They create new worlds, that at first glimpse might seem uncanny – Where every little thing is active and vibrant – Where borders are substituted by networks. This exhibition is the second chapter of an exchange between eight artists which started with the package show “1st Chapter: Trying to Be a Spider” that was sent into the world in April 2021. Instead of the spider, this time the bark beetle is our host and storyteller. Do you want to take a walk on this dusty path with us?Text by Cristina Rüesch &amp; Frederik Vium