CONVERSATIONS WITH HUAUHTLI AS A PATH TO REVIVE AND DEVELOPINDIVIDUAL COMMUNICATION ABILITIES AND LEARN FROM NON-HUMAN ENTITIES

Master Project Exhibition

CONVERSATIONS WITH HUAUHTLI AS A PATH TO REVIVE AND DEVELOPINDIVIDUAL
COMMUNICATION ABILITIES AND LEARN FROM
NON-HUMAN ENTITIES

I can become a mountain is an installation created and inhabited in the studio of the artist Paula Flores. The measurements of the work are a result of the empty space that could be provided for the production of the installation while maintaining enough minimum space for the artist to be able to work in the studio in other projects simultaneously. This being a reflection of the state of mind of the artist. Due to the COVID quarantine and the University studios being closed in the first lockdown Flores decided to get a studio outside the University. Other than a space to work it was also a space of her own since she was sharing her body with her baby that was growing inside of her and sharing the one-bedroom flat with her partner. Her daughter was born in late September and the space in the flat and in her mind seemed to be getting smaller with the arrival of the new human.

Flores was in the need to have a space for herself that would allow her to get into the thoughts that she had put in the thesis. Slowly the space came to be by adding the elements and playing around with them. The space gave her the freedom to travel in her mind how she wanted. She decided to inhabit it for different time frames and with different actions taking place. This was to become a temporary dwelling that invoked memories of her childhood imagination that sprouted from the stories told to her by some of her family members. A space that allowed Flores to have the freedom to navigate in time to her past, to be in the present and to think how she can transgress the barriers of the colonial west in what it means to be a human. The thought about transgressing the concept of the human with Amaranth as a guide in order to open possibilities for interspecies communication was the main and crucial thought to be explored in this space. But the space didn’t limit itself to that and it didn’t limit the visitors and temporary dwellers to one act. It allowed them to navigate the times of childhood where there were no limits to imagining our surroundings and projecting those imaginary creations into a sporadic landscape of play time that had the potential to change the everyday life reality. A nice relief from the harsh realities we are facing now.

Supervised by Univ.-Prof. Virgil Widrich

Commission

Univ.-Prof. Mag. rer. Nat. Dr. techn. Georg Glaeser
Sen.Lect. Dr. Bernd Kräftner

VAss. Mag. art. Nita Tandon

Univ.-Prof. Virgil Widrich

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