Simon Swale / Gabi Schilling
Mentee / Mentor
Dunedin, New Zealand / Berlin, Germany
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My recent work looked towards the flow of material culture in the age of globalisation. Thinking about American brand cigarettes: Swiss based multi-national, African farmed tobacco, manufactured in Europe, branded and sold in Asia.
Empty packet found upon the street of a New Zealand port town…
Gabi Schilling works with dialogical spaces. Transitional spaces of the in-between. Shillig is interested in the forces and relationships between bodies, spaces and objects, creating multisensory spatial experiences that considers the real and the virtual.
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I am excited for this journey, between Dunedin and Berlin. How to discuss space in physical absence? Two people who have never, experienced any of the same spaces in their lifetimes, must now transcend space. From within this virtual space, create a new kind of place…
I too am drawn to transitional spaces- the threshold, the margin, the periphery. Spaces betwixt and between. Between the city and the countryside, between day and night, across international date lines, across real and digital realms…
What is the sensation of a foreign city, a foreign country; another’s home that is not your own?