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Epidemic Geographies
(2023)
This essay is a shortened version of a final BA thesis, written during the global pandemic of covid-19, dominating media reports, public life, and private experience in the quarantine society in the months of April to July 2020. Yet this thesis was also a test, a quiet personal one. To focus on current conditions and events allowed to shift the perspective from familiar contexts to unknown environments. It allowed to try out whether the subjects of our studies can be applied to a ‘real world context’ besides works that often only retrospectively comment on preexisting conditions. Parallel to this text two video works were developed. While the first (Heatmap Urbanism - https://vimeo.com/469567011) offers a visual inquiry into the urban implications of pandemic contact tracing, the second (Relational Topographies - https://vimeo.com/469582311) presents the cartographic speculations that are conceived in this essay.
BLANK ist formuliert um direkte Zusammenhänge von Theorie als Inspiration für gestalterische (als auch künstlerische) Konzeption und daraus resultierenden praktischen Ergebnissen herauszustellen. Zu diesem Zweck ist die Rezeptionsästhetik als Grundlage herangezogen worden. Fotografische Arbeiten werden innerhalb des Bildbands, BLANK in Beziehung gesetzt um theoretische Aspekte von Rezeption wahrzunehmen.
The fashion industry is one of the most harmful industries in the world. Many garments are produced and dyed on a petroleum base; vast amounts of water are used in the production of textiles and garments; and environmentally harmful chemicals are released into the environment during production. Working towards sustainability in fashion is more relevant than ever. One way of doing this is to design garments with nature. To do so, I am presenting an example of biotechnology in the field of dyeing techniques. The project is innovative and future-driven in that it offers alternatives to industrial, petroleum-based dyeing techniques. A number of bacteria produce different colored pigments. The bacteria strain Janthinobacterium lividum, for example, is considered nontoxic and safe to handle. It is found in nature on the skin of the red-backed salamander. The bacteria produce dark purple pigments called violacein. With the pigment’s antifungal and antibacterial characteristics, it protects itself and its host from intruders. Can the pigment, however, be applied to dye textiles?