Running Position and Sitting Position

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The title working-progress was derived from the experience of working on a final master project in the middle of a world pandemic. We responded to the context by taking our practice outside of the studio, university, gallery situation and rather took our viewers, sitting at home to the so-called outside world, the garden and running route through the neighbourhood of Hernals. Brought together in a shared online place, zoom.us.

One after the other, we raced through the virtual space, handing on the platform to present like a baton.

​Within the baton marathon, the work 'Running position and Sitting position' explored the metaphorical and methodical practice of leaving the comfort and familiar zone to new unknown places, in which the courage of an individual or group of people is nurtured. In the time of quarantine, ‘Running’ from the location of the house to the outside world requires the willingness to take action as well as the foresight to possible or potential events in the future. Within the project the subject of running is narrated in parallel with the tension between the media coverage and personal perceptions of the Iranian Green Movement (2009-to present), it considers the method of running and sitting with the aim of transformation and reformation in the scale of self and society.

​In this format, the work 'What's easier to train, a cat or a human?' enquired into the experience of mutual struggle in re-training, and interrelating to others via ones own habits, contradictions and dependencies. Observations of ecosystems within the garden, as well as representations within imagery on cat food packaging; toyed with the question of how cultural and legal constructions affect critters within formats of so-called pet and animal contextualizations, as well as how these can be a catalyst for the politics of negotiating symbiosis within wider zones and human interrelations.

Link to Website joint entry https://www.rosiebenn.com/working-progress