- WORKSHOP I. SHIFTING SOIL - DISCOVERY TO FORMATION
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SOU-1.43. WIEN, AT.
2026.
As a material exploration of different formations of soil, Shifting Soil – Discovery to Formation invited a closer engagement with the ground. Within this exhibition we discovered and rethought, reformulated and reattached ourselves to the ground that we often take for granted.
The exhibition brought together SOU–1.43’s ongoing site exploration with our project KÜHLE SACHE for the Klima Biennale Wien. In a workshop, sand excavated from the site and fragments of the existing structure were transformed into tiles that became part of the installation at the Tiertränkerbrunnen in Vienna’s 6th district, carrying material traces of one site into another public space within the city.
At its core, Shifting Soil – Discovery to Formation reflected on the capacity of collective action to shape the environments we inhabit. Through communal processes we shall care and create the public spaces we inhabit to reclaim the joy of being together.
In a contextual approach to the installation’s environment, participants experimented with sand-casting imprinting with found objects and site fragments from the site into a layer of sand, creating unique, ephemeral and reusable molds for tiles to be cast in. Using different natural mineral pigments and aggregates from the workshop’s site, currently under renovation, such as crushed bricks, as well as crushed mis-trials from the tile development process, personal and individual tiles were created. Subsequently, after curing, the tiles were installed onto Kühle Sache in an approach for the workshop’s participants to collectively participate in the aesthetical design of public space.
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