Knotting
The performance “Knotting” explores the transition between two- and three-dimensional reference systems and the dynamics of materials, such as nylon and Dyneema rope lings, Haribo slings, shoe laces, clay, and wool. Highlighting the materials qualities and sweet spots, the audience participates in hands-on experiments, including drawing shoelace knots, unraveling knitted sweaters, and twirling elastic ropes. The event concludes with a presentation of glazed ceramics, allowing visitors to physically engage with these objects and connect their real-world experiences to the concepts and activities presented during the performance.
Knotting
2018
Performance with glassboard, pens, shoe laces, different type of slings, clay, knitted sweater, wool, glazed ceramics
Duration: 40 min.
Exhibited at LIMBO, 7-17 Latona Road, London, 15. – 16. 3. 2018
Supported by Karl H. Ditze Foundation. Exhibition exchange between the Art Department of the Goldsmiths, University of London, and HFBK Hamburg, 2018
Photo credit: Amber Hahn, Sohorab Rabbey
©Franziska Windolf. All rights reserved.
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Climb With Me
“I Want You to Climb With Me” explores parallels between the physical, mental and human processes of art making and climbing by drawing on personal experience and references from various fields in society, science, literature and art. The text aims at opening up both art making and climbing to the reader as something that is to be shared and yet not communicated without detours and failure: embodied knowledge and the very action of making sense are complex, site-bound and contextual and hence require an active and continuous positioning.
“I Want You to Climb With Me” first introduces my psychic and sensual understanding, handling of and relationship to matter as a daily endeavour, bridging climbing and art making as a mode for learning. It discusses how the very act of moving and touching can turn into a meaningful experience for oneself and others.
The notion of movement in regard to questions of performativity and relativity is then explored by presenting a personal encounter with Dóra Maurer’s work at Tate London in 2020. Miwon Kwon’s discourse of site-specificity finally opens up my own art practice to an active engagement with ‘site’, considering it as a place of encounter and interaction. Distinct ‘traits’ form the specific personality of a space, they shape and are shaped by those who engage with it. The conclusions found by investigating ‘site-specificity’ are used in the text to deconstruct male and dialectic metaphors and clichés drawn from mountaineering. This opens up my perspective on making art to a broader field of daily life and visual art.
I Want You To Climb With Me
2021
MA Thesis Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London, uk
41 pages
Supported by the German Academic Exchange Service, 2020-22
©Franziska Windolf. All rights reserved.
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Farbkörper
Farbkörper (selection)
2016-2020
Glazed ceramic, paper, canvas, print
Variable dimensions, details on request
Exhibited at Kunsthaus Hamburg as part of Further Thoughts on Earthy Materials 11.09. – 25.11.2018 and Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, among other Graduation Show 13. – 15.07.2018
Photo credits: Hanna Naske, Andreas Hopfgarten, Hayo Heye, Edward Greiner, Götz Sommer, Dagmar Weiß, Tobias Hübel, Ben Paetzold
