Guy Köningstein | Selected works 2018

Tutor documentation 2019-02-12

Selected news about works by Guy Köningstein, tutor at finished Temporary Programme Reinventing Daily Life (2016-2018).

• Wall-to-wall carpet, April 2018. Drawn during an Artist Residency in South Africa, the woven carpet depicts the impressive arsenal of private security features that dominate the view in Johannesburg’s streets: walls and barriers, electric fences and barbed wire, surveillance cameras and guards, thorny roses and “roaring” lions.
• Factory of Silver, June 2018. Operating during Jerusalem Design Week, the Balloon Workshop manufactured on-spot and handed out about 1,500 shiny helium balloons to visitors of the festival. The symbolic shapes (based on historical events, iconic brands, biblical legends, popular emojis, Palestinian symbols, etc.) circulated in the city and beyond, but occasionally bursted unexpectedly or simply flew away and disappeared in the sky.
• Article Detours in Time was published in Liminalities: a Journal of Performance Studies - a nice closure for a process that started with a lecture and workshop at the conference Performative Commemoration of Painful Pasts at Stockholm University in 2016.
• Randbow was awarded with the third prize in the collage competition of the Münzenberg Forum in Berlin. Re-assembled from thin strips from each of the five South African Rand notes, the collaged money note presents a somehow refracted yet colourful portrait of Nelson Mandela - international face and symbol of the struggle against apartheid, who fought for the constitution of a “Rainbow Nation,” a united, reconciled, multi-cultural democracy.

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