"Untitled"
"When an object loses its purpose and function, it becomes waste. Images of plastic rafts floating in the oceans and mountain-sized waste piles urge us to refigure our relation to products and our consumerist lifestyle. Miriam Schenkirz takes the local recycling center – a graveyard of discarded objects – as the starting point of her artistic research process. Digging deeper into the system of collecting and managing waste, labour and encounters with people doing the work, became crucial. The fragmented and multifaceted collection of found objects, texts, images, and discussions that Schenkirz has compiled, put on display another side of the picturesque resort town of St. Moritz in the Swiss Alps and portrays the local community through the waste it produces."
(Miina Pohjolainen)
"High Season"
Workshop "Work as Process" mit
Philipp Goldbach und
Verena Kaspar-Eisert
im Rahmen der St. Moritz Art Academy
Hotel Reine Victoria
Via Rosatsch 18,
7500 St. Moritz, Schweiz
17.August 2019
Text: Miina Pohjolainen
Photos: Silvia Carapel
"Untitled"
"When an object loses its purpose and function, it becomes waste. Images of plastic rafts floating in the oceans and mountain-sized waste piles urge us to refigure our relation to products and our consumerist lifestyle. Miriam Schenkirz takes the local recycling center – a graveyard of discarded objects – as the starting point of her artistic research process. Digging deeper into the system of collecting and managing waste, labour and encounters with people doing the work, became crucial. The fragmented and multifaceted collection of found objects, texts, images, and discussions that Schenkirz has compiled, put on display another side of the picturesque resort town of St. Moritz in the Swiss Alps and portrays the local community through the waste it produces."
(Miina Pohjolainen)
"High Season"
Workshop "Work as Process" mit
Philipp Goldbach und
Verena Kaspar-Eisert
im Rahmen der St. Moritz Art Academy
Hotel Reine Victoria
Via Rosatsch 18,
7500 St. Moritz, Schweiz
17.August 2019
Text: Miina Pohjolainen
Photos: Silvia Carapel