"Svenja Schüffler`s work deals with topics related to Human-Earth-Science and the uncertainty of knowledge, accompanied by the Art Project "Institute for Uncertain Knowledge IUK"
While concrete has the appearance of an advanced technology, based upon theoretical understanding of stresses and chemistry of cements, knowledge held by trained experts, reinforced concrete is also at the same time a simple process that can be, and in many parts of the world is, executed by people with no...
The imposing slab fragments, the uncanny ruins are the evidence of a violence to come, loaded with a force to harm and slay down, irreversible and unexpected. A visible threat, an imagine of risk. Neatly plastered ceilings that become weaponized are beyond everyday experience. This background is shifted to the front,...
Video objects, 2016 “A countdown, is a time sequence of backward counting, to indicate and speak out loud the critical time remaining before an anxiously anticipated event occurs. The temporal demand and necessities of the situation enables a rhetoric to put off any discussion, detail or story and thus...