methodology

Trauma Mapping

Aksiniya Peicheva (BG)

Trauma Mapping aims to develop a methodology for creating “geographical” maps of physical injuries, illnesses or other kinds of damage experienced by the body. It seeks to explore the inner processes of the suffering of stray animals from the streets of Bulgaria; to look for visual traces, left by traumatic events: their projection on the body, the organism’s reaction, the way the cells are being rearranged by what has happened.

Putting the Pieces Back Together Again

Ralf Baecker (DE)

The kinetic installation Putting the Pieces Back Together Again is a complex system with self-organizing and emergent behavior. It is also an artistic inquiry and meditation on contemporary scientific methodology. The installation investigates non-hierarchical communication and collective behavior by implementing such a system physically through many electro-mechanical actors.