Category: RESIDENCY

August Residency Exhibition

Marion Neumann, Isamu Krieger, Yi Zhou and Franziska Klose

Friday August 26, 2016

6-10PM

Please Join us for this special event that spans the whole Popps compound and highlights the wonderful work created by our current AIR. 

With Snacks and Refreshments

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“Mounts & Marvels” , by Isamu Krieger (Switzerland) at Popps Emporium.  

“Like an unfold origami, the flat paper that however keeps the lines of the architectural volume, offers though a new surface to write one’s tale. In front of a nearly blank page, I develop my practice of drawing and I search to combine natural elements with abstract shapes and to compose patterns of landscapes based on graphical systems. My proposal here is to play with visual tensions using optical games, illusions of crossing lines, horizontal panoramas and vertical cliffs, deep caves and a plane plateau…All of this is in order to create obviously an effect of vertigo.  A dizziness between absence and presence, between rising and falling… ”  

“Wild Plants” directed by Nicolas Humbert with cinematography by Marion Neumann (Switzerland)

Film Screening of at 9PM,

WILD_PLANTS_Kinga_HandPeople’s associations with flora goes back a long way, taking us back to our own roots as well as to new ways of life and creative potential that reveal themselves as we deal with plants. ‘Wild Plants’ is a film that traces these clues and takes us to urban gardens in Detroit, to Native American philosopher Milo Yellow Hair in Wounded Knee, to the wild plantations of Zurich’s legendary ‘Guerilla Gardener’ Maurice Maggi, and to the innovative horticulture cooperative ‘Les Jardins de Cocagne’ in Geneva.

The New Wild–Detroit“. by Franziska Klose (Germany)   www.frzlkrzl.tumblr.com,

franziskaklose-TheNewWildThe New Wild–Detroit is part of a long-term project that pictures postindustrial landscapes worldwide.  It will combine pictures of urban and industrial vegetation and various farms in Detroit with historical images and texts to describe the permanent change of Detroit’s urban and social landscape.

Klose studied at Bauhaus-University Weimar, at École Supérieure des Arts Visuels Genève/CH and at Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. She lives in Leipzig, Germany.  

“Body Memory Clinic”  by Yi Zhou (China)

Demonstrations from 7-9PM

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Practicing from her Pop Up,  Body Memory clinic and wearing her trademark Doctors coat, the self confessed “collector of human body parts”, takes a ‘faux-scientific’ look at body form and the role that our body parts, rather than our brain, play in storing our memories.
 

Fingers, noses, lips, ears, breasts and even belly buttons are covered with resin and then plaster bandages to create unconventional, quirky jewellery pieces and accessories.  

Mycelium Give-Away
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Marion Neumann will be giving away mycelium left over from the Radical Mycology Workshops earlier this month. She’ll show you what you need to do in order to grow your own mushrooms at home. First come first serve, so come early and get you spores!!

 

Light snacks and refreshments

MOMM and POPP Residency!

Popps Packing welcomes Marion Neumann (filmmaker and cinematographer),  Isamu Krieger (visual artist), and 5 year old daughter Frida from Geneva Switzerland,  our first  Momm and Popp  Residents   thanks to support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation!!

For the month of August, Marion Neumann (filmmaker and cinematographer),  Isamu Krieger (visual artist), and 5 year old daughter Frida will be in residence at Popps Packing as part of our new Momm and Popps residency program for parent artists. Marion will be developing a project focused on mycology and how the highly resilient life cycles of fungi can serve as a powerful learning tool for how humans can relate to each other and protect the world they live in.  Her residency kicks off with a Myco Remediation Workshop with mushroom guru Geoffroy R. Grignon on Friday August 5th, (Details below). Meanwhile Isamu, whose work explores the absurd aspects of a paradoxical world with a deep sensitivity and respect for nature, will be working on a live drawing installation in one of Popps gallery spaces. The Momm & Popp Artist Residency is a pilot program designed to cater to national and international artists with families. The program explores hybrid forms of life and work and provides opportunities for artists, families and neighbors to exchange ideas about art and life in order to learn and inspire each other. 

Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. For more, visit knightfoundation.org.

Franziska Klose (Photographer, Book Artist),Leipzig, Germany.

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Franziska Klose works explore postindustrial nature and landscapes within a social-historical context. Her works include photography, artist books and field recordings. She returns to Popps for the second time to photograph and research for her new book „ The New Wild–Detroit“.

The book is part of a long-term project that pictures postindustrial landscapes worldwide.  It will combine pictures of urban and industrial vegetation and various farms in Detroit with historical images and texts to describe the permanent change of Detroit’s urban and social landscape.

Klose studied at Bauhaus-University Weimar, at École Supérieure des Arts Visuels Genève/CH and at Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. She lives in Leipzig, Germany.

More about Franziska Klose’s work here: www.franziskaklose.de, www.frzkrzl.tumblr.com

Yi Zhou (Artist and Designer),  Beijing
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Yi’s projects are drawn from sociological angles, and focusing primarily on the interrelation between human relations and behavior.
At Popps she will continue to develop her performative and intimate project “Body Memory” A project  based on the hypothesis that the body itself is capable of storing memories, as opposed to just the brain. YI will be setting up a Pop Up Body Memory Clinic at some point during her residency and will be looking for stories in exchange for castings.  We’ll keep you posted on the details.
To learn more about Yi’s work here:

 

 

 

Join us Friday August 26 from 6-10Pm for a special residency exhibition around the Popps compound.

POPPS PACKING WELCOMES NEW ARTISTS IN RESIDNECE!!

LIZA DIECKWISCH, AE RAN KIM, JUNGWOON KIM, KLARA PATEROK

Liza, Aeran, Jungwoon and Klara are four artists living and working in Düsseldorf (GER) and Vienna (AT). They met during their studies at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, where they first started to collaborate on projects. They  are using their  6 weeks at Popps for research and to devolope a larger collaborative work based on their individual and shared interests.

Liza Dieckwisch is a painter. She combines her colors directly in the space, there is no canvas or other medium, her “paintings” are the colors themselves, the colors seem to be “autonomous”. Dieckwisch’s works allow a straight communication between the artist and the audience.

Aeran Kim accepts and respects the irony and illogicality of life. She observes the daily routine and interrupts it before it serves a purpose; in this way she eliminates the everyday occurrence. You can find the irony as concept in the details of the performance’s process. Those details change several times in the process of the work, it seems that they destroy the perfect structure, but in fact they accomplish the whole structure.

Jungwoon Kim  composes psychological cities. The installations are built with everyday objects: stairways. For her constructions she employs foam board that kind of material used for the architectural models. Colors, silicone, collages and video disturb the clean white surface of the material. Moreover the strictness of the structure of the work is broken.

Klara Paterok  deals with cultural objects, architectural characteristics and shapes of nature. She combines these topics and defines points of contact by alteration of materiality and form. The reference of objects to the nature and body of the human being plays an important role in this process. One of her particular interest lies in the contentual and visual overlap of cultural and natural objects (® objets ambigus, Valéry, P.)

Welcome New Artists in Residence:

Welcome New Artists in Residence:

Liza Dieckwisch,  Ae-ran Kim , Jungwoon Kim, Klara Paterok (living and working in Düsseldorf (GER) and Vienna (AT) arrived at Popps on June 1st for a six week residency.

The four artists met during their studies at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, where they began to collaborate on projects and are in residence at Popps until July 15 to explore their collective practices within the context of Detroit and Hamtramck.

Liza Dieckwisch is a painter. She combines her colors directly in the space, there is no canvas or other medium, her “paintings” are the colors themselves, the colors seem to be “autonomous”. Dieckwisch’s works allow a straight communication between the artist and the audience. The paintings appear like organic formations: The layers of different colors seem to spread, the paintings are always ready for a change and therefore they are always in process.

Aeran Kim accepts and respects the irony and illogicality of life. She observes the daily routine and interrupts it before it serves a purpose; in this way she eliminates the everyday occurrence. You can find the irony as concept in the details of the performance’s process. Those details change several times in the process of the work, it seems that they destroy the perfect structure, but in fact they accomplish the whole structure.

Jungwoon Kim composes psychological cities. The installations are built with everyday objects: stairways. For her constructions she employs foam board that kind of material used for the architectural models. Colors, silicone, collages and video disturb the clean white surface of the material. Moreover the strictness of the structure of the work is broken.

Klara Paterok deals with cultural objects, architectural characteristics and shapes of nature. She combines these topics and defines points of contact by alteration of materiality and form. The reference of objects to the nature and body of the human being plays an important role in this process. One of her particular interest lies in the contentual and visual overlap of cultural and natural objects (® objets ambigus, Valéry, P.)