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| Carved oak staircase, Morlaix, France, 1522-30. Victoria and Albert Museum |
Montag, 31. Oktober 2016
Die Treppe als Objekt (Museumstreppen 13)
Sonntag, 30. Oktober 2016
Leicht Lesen (Texte im Museum 590)
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| Ausstellung "Mittendrin. Leben mit Beeinträchtigung". Graz Museum (GF 2016) |
Sitzen im Gewölbe (Sitzen im Museum)
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| Ausstellung "Mittendrin. Leben mit Beeinträchtigung" Graz Museum (GF 2016) |
Ein Museum: Museo della Merda Castelbosco/Piacenza
Ein Scheisse-Museum?? Eine abseitige, verrückte Idee eines Spinners? Mitnichten. Sondern ein Nebenprodukt einer modernen landwirtschaftlichen Anlage mit ökologischen, ästhetischen und künstlerischen Ambitionen.
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The Shit Museum was founded in Lombardy in 2015 by the agricultural entrepreneur Gianantonio Locatelli and a group of associates: Luca Cipelletti, who manages its projects and products, Gaspare Luigi Marcone and Massimo Valsecchi.
The idea came into being in Castelbosco, in the province of Piacenza, on a farm which makes milk for Grana Padano cheese and includes seven production units. Here every day 3,500 specially selected cows produce around 50,000 litres of milk and 150,000 kilos of dung. Under Locatelli’s management, this quantity of excreta started to be transformed into a futuristic ecological, productive and cultural project. Using highly innovative systems, electrical energy started to be produced from the manure. Today the farm produces up to three megawatts per hour. The buildings and offices of the farm are heated exploiting the warmth given off by the digesters as they turn manure into energy. Not to mention the fertiliser produced. All these activities have drawn attention from various international institutions concerned with ecology and innovation, leading to widespread recognition and prizes, and making Castelbosco a point of reference.
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The Shit Museum (Italian: Museo Della Merda) is a museum in the province of Piacenza, in the north of Italy, and is reported to be the world's first museum dedicated to faeces. The museum opened on 5 May 2015, having been founded by agricultural businessman Gianantonio Locatelli and three associates.
The museum, set in a medieval castle in the village of Castelbosco, was created by a local dairy farmer whose herd of 2,500 (some reports say 3,500) cows produce 30,000 litres (7,900 US gal) of milk a day, which is used to make Grana Padano cheese. The cows also produce around 100,000 kilograms (220,000 lb) of dung, which is transformed into methane, fertiliser for the fields, as well as raw material for plaster and bricks. The dung is used to generate power to run the operation. The museum has a symbiotic relationship with the farm and cheesemaking facility. It is an eccentric byproduct of the huge aggregation of cows and their prodigious output of cow manure.
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| Ein Mistkäfer als Logo |
Eco-friendly recycling is an important theme of the museum. That includes the reuse of farmyard manure, but the museum also features many artefacts on display, including a lump of fossilised dinosaur faeces, jars of faeces, art works inspired by human waste, ancient Roman medicinal cures that featured animal excrement, and a collection of dung beetles.
An even broader motif (and goal) is "transformation" in an engineering, philosophical, scatological, sociological, and practical sense. As the organization's website offers: "The idea for a new museum slowly took shape, emerging from manure to deal with the broader theme of transformation. The museum would be an agent of change which, through educational and research activities, the production of objects of everyday use and the gathering of artefacts and stories concerning excrement in the modern world and throughout history, was to dismantle cultural norms and prejudices."
Transforming the site took more than twenty years. It started with paint. The museum commissioned artists David Tremlett and Anne and Patrick Poirier to transfigure the mechanical digesters "into a sign" mixing allegorical symbols with botany, thereby creating "a work of evolutionary land art". Luca Cipelletti was the principal architect.
Within the Gazzola Castelbosco, exhibit spaces are designed to reinforce the themes, beginning with the museum's repeated use of the dung beetle – the Egyptian's considered the scarab to be divine as a symbol of the heavenly cycle and of the idea of rebirth or regeneration – and to provide proof that shit "is a useful and living material". Thus, it combines historical references (including Pliny's Naturalis Historia) to point out that waste and recycled materials can be the basis for a better civilization.
Part of the mission of the Shit Museum is to make tangible contributions: ideas and exhibits are purposed to lead to objects, innovation and projects. Production is key to the transformation the museum's creators envision. In its inaugural year, the museum invented and patented Merdacotta, which it says is "emblematic". The product's name is 'baked shit' in Italian. The material combines the twin principles of sustainability and transmutation, which are the museum's baseline. It combines the twin materials of dried cow dung and Tuscan clay.[8] The Merdacotta was used in "simple, clean rural shapes", devoid of adornment and embodying "ancient principles", thereby making the first tangible products bearing the Museo della Merda brand. These objects include bowls, flowerpots, jugs, mugs, plates, and tiles. In that sense, the use of materials gives voice to a Mcluhanesque view where "the medium is truly the message". By their existence, the materials used eloquently imply that the material is their substance, and that shape is peripheral. "These are objects that redesign the cycle of nature in a virtuous circle, constituting essential elements of contemporary living." At the Salone del Mobile in 2016, the museum's "primordial products" made their debut. They garnered first prize in the Milano Design Award. Merdacotta is said to have a rugged look that enhances the hand crafting. When glazed and fired at 1,800 degrees,[clarification needed] it can be used to serve food and drink.
Webseite des Museums: http://www.museodellamerda.org/the-museum/
Unter der Rubrik "Ein Museum" stelle ich im Blog ungewöhnliche Museen vor, auch um die Diversität des Museums weltweit zu repräsentieren. Einfach das Lemma "Ein Museum" anklicken, um alle einschlägige Posts aufzurufen.
Freitag, 28. Oktober 2016
Donnerstag, 27. Oktober 2016
Ein Statement der neuen Direktorin des Belvedere, Stella Rollig
Das Belvedere sollte ein Ort sein, an dem man über die österreichische kulturelle Identität im Zusammenhang mit Europa und selbstverständlich vor dem Hintergrund der globalisierten Welt nachdenkt. Der Frage nach dem "Wir" in diesem großen Umbruch, in dem sich die Welt derzeit befindet, sollte man mit Ausstellungen und Debatten im Belvedere nachgehen. Ich finde es interessant, nicht so sehr Prinz Eugen und die imperiale Geschichte in den Vordergrund zu stellen, wenngleich man darauf nie ganz verzichten wird, sondern ebenso zu erinnern, dass das Belvedere der Ort des Staatsvertrags war. Hier hieß es: "Österreich ist frei." Und dieser Begriff der Freiheit einer Nation muss in einer globalisierten Welt neu untersucht werden. (…) Wichtig ist ein Bekenntnis zum Museum als Wissensspeicher. Und Haltung! Wir gehen in politisch und gesellschaftlich harte Zeiten, und ein Museum sollte der Ort sein, an dem Werte des gemeinsamen Zusammenlebens vermittelt werden. Natürlich verwechsle ich das Belvedere nicht mit einem radikalen kleinen Kunstverein. Aber man soll merken, welche Menschen hinter dem Haus stehen und es leiten. (…) Ja, es sind Werte des Humanismus, der Solidarität und Emanzipation, des Glaubens an Bildung und an Kunst. Die muss ich anhand der Themen vermitteln und auch dadurch, wie ein Haus geführt wird. Ich bin bekannt dafür, dass mich der Diskurs, die theoretische Auseinandersetzung, interessiert. Es werden im Belvedere auch Diskussionsveranstaltungen stattfinden, bei denen Stimmen von Minderheiten gehört werden. Diese Haltung wird man an der Zusammensetzung des Teams und an der Entscheidung für bestimmte Künstlerinnen und Künstler merken. Unsere Gesellschaft besteht nicht nur aus weißen, in Österreich geborenen, katholischen Menschen.
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