Of nets
Participatory installation
Various ropes, prints, notebooks, books, hand notes, wall drawings, writing materials, (makeshift) tools
2024
Nets can support, carry, but also keep away and separate, just as social networks can be used to connect, to care, but also to gatekeep and exclude. Structurally, a safety net and a wire fence have a lot in common… And both are seen, from different perspectives, as carriers of security.
of nets turns netmaking into a participatory medium to reflect on one’s own interconnections: How do our relationships and social structures (not) function as safety nets? Where do we experience networks as separating, where as connecting? What wishes and needs do we have for such networks, and (how) can they be mended and transformed?
The project encompasses an evolving installation, workshops, and a future publication. Visitors can respond to and expand the present installation of nets, notes and drawings. The window piece explores the mending and extending of a net from the related project One safety net (2022), which had to be cut free of the pillar it was built around. This process can be continued every time the net is installed in a new space.
Workshops approach the questions carried by the work through discussions, experiments with nets, as well as collective netmaking as an exploration of attunement, cooperation, communication.