A Living Artwork - Trailer

Engaging with living matter in an artistic context means partaking in the impossibilities of representing the very core of what makes an artwork ‚alive‘. Aliveness in art challenges the way we exhibit, experience, witness, archive or know the artwork. "A Living Artwork" is a long-term dialogue between artistic processes, scientific and historical reflections, philosophical thinking, experimental publishing practices and imaginative fabulations, seeking answers to these challenges.

Sonja Bäumel‘s living artworks serve as a kind of Petri dish, from which the project feeds and grows. The aim of the project is to create a space for imagination through which knowledge practices can become situated, movable, fragmented, and embodied. “A Living Artwork” weaves together multiple perspectives which are dialogically shared, performed, materialized, made public, and filmed. Thereby, elements of living art are brought to the fore that often remain unrepresented in artistic and scientific contexts. These include the processual, the ephemeral, the infectious, the decaying, the fluid, and the animated.