ONE MILLION - QUICK RESPONSE - ONE MILLION BY ULI AIGNER

OMZB - ONE MILLION ZENTRALE BERLIN
ONE MILLION - QUICK RESPONSE

Analog presentation: Saturday, September 25, 2021, 1-8 pm
Digital presentation: Saturday, September 25, 2021 from 3 pm forever

Location: One Million Central Control Berlin,
Brandenburgische Strasse 43, 10707 Berlin, Germany

As part of the NEUSTART KULTUR funding program, Uli Aigner is realizing the ONE MILLION - QUICK RESPONSE project with the aim of synchronizing the analog and digital present.

Porcelain & Text: Uli Aigner
Films: Michal Kosakowski
Photography & Design: Tom McCallie

THE ARTWORK

Click HERE to download a high resolution PDF poster (12,8 MB).
The QR codes shown on the poster can be scanned with your smartphone to view the films of the individual vessels / zones.

Alternatively, you can view the films below.

THE PROJECT

10 porcelain vessels - item 6174 to item 6183 from ONE MILLION - provide a quick insight into the circumstances of their existence. Thanks to QR codes in the porcelain, the archaeological search for traces of these 10 objects will be a short one.

The relationship between ANALOG and DIGITAL has not been the only great challenge for us contemporaries since the corona pandemic.

We are born, we reproduce and we find death. An analog timeline, maybe 80-90 years long, to which we are all subject. In contrast, our knowledge is hybrid and deregulated. It contains chaotic traces of information of mankind that, according to the latest research, is around 260,000 years old.

The 4th industrial revolution of our era, which has reached all areas of our lives since the late 1980s, does not follow the analog logic of physical existence: overwritten - our lives and our actions will become like this through digitization.

I am writing 10 letters to 10 people for each of whom I have thrown a coded vessel:

A nature photographer and an artist in New York City, a female manager in México DF, a female glassblower from St. Petersburg, a philosopher and a female filmmaker in Vienna, a friend from Simbach, the best female sculptor in Berlin, a radical composer in Munich and a female world-traveled survivor - these are to whom the ten ONE MILLION hybrids are dedicated.

Each of the 10 porcelain objects is marked by a dark blue QR code and thus provides information about the reason for its existence, which, in addition to the practical use of a porcelain vessel, is also and above all a communicative act.

Uli Aigner, Berlin September 2021

THE VESSELS