MAPPING THE RURAL, 2024 - ongoing
Remnants of the Barn, Zwettl, Lower Austria, 2023
Detail of the Circular Saw, Zwettl, Lower Austria, 2023
Detail of the Circular Saw, Zwettl, Lower Austria, 2023
Corroded sign, Zwettl, Lower Austria, 2023
Inside the old farmhouse looking onto the Barn before demolition, Zwettl, Lower Austria, 2023
Collection of agricultural tools and other treasures, Zwettl, Lower Austria, 2023
Circular Saw in Augmented Reality on Metaspark AR via Instagram, 2024
Motion Capture of agricultural hand tools, Newton Park, Bath Spa University, 2024
Motion Capture of agricultural hand tools, Newton Park, Bath Spa University, 2024
Motion Capture of agricultural hand tools, Newton Park, Bath Spa University, 2024
Exhibition of test setup with sonified ceramic sculpture and animated 3D objects, Hatch (Langport, Somerset/UK), 2025
Exhibition of test setup with sonified ceramic sculpture and animated 3D objects, Hatch (Langport, Somerset/UK), 2025
Exhibition of test setup with sonified ceramic sculpture and animated 3D objects, Hatch (Langport, Somerset/UK), 2025
Exhibition of test setup with sonified ceramic sculpture and animated 3D objects, Hatch (Langport, Somerset/UK), 2025
Exhibition of test setup with sonified ceramic sculpture and animated 3D objects, Hatch (Langport, Somerset/UK), 2025
With Mapping the Rural, I am examining the remnants of my family’s pre (and post) WWII Barn (Lower Austrian German: ‘der Stadl’) which was demolished in 2023 after several attempts of saving the building. The deconstruction coincided with my father’s aggressive neurodegenerative illness and thus emerged as a ‘Sinnbild’, a representation, of memory loss and the transformation of identity. I am now ‘reconstructing’ the Barn via its remaining protagonist, a manually built circular saw (‘die Kreissäge’) and further characters such as an old-school Austrian scythe, a metal-ringed wooden flail, and a hand-bound hazel broom to (re-)imagine my family’s heritage in a wider national context, and to forge a method set for a new speculative and historical narrative-focussed examination of transient place.
What will this place become?
What remains?