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"Good art provides inspirations, brilliant art brings about changes"
Hans Kalliwoda
The World in a Shell is a mobile artist's studio,
which functions as an intercultural swap-shop.
Being an intervention project by nature it focuses
on developments rather than on results. In other words,
it's not the arrival; it's the road that matters.
The locations are in areas inhabited by indigenous peoples
in the proximity of UNESCO World Heritage Sites where the
World in a Shell will function as an interactive communication
zone to facilitate a "self-documentation" of the
people, cultures, living conditions and the surroundings of
these sites, and thus turn into the first living and mobile
world heritage site.
The essence of everything that happens, whether experienced,
imagined or created in and around the shell, will be captured
and stored in a treasure box in the form of 'unica', (pictures,
drawings, recordings, stories, self-representations and art works).
The treasure box will be shown to the people on the next location
and during exhibitions in musea and on biennales.
In such a way the people from one location will travel along to
the next and interact with the people over there. At the same time,
people from all over the world can connect to the World in a Shell
through the internet and follow, or participate, in the project and
become themselves part of the world peoples heritage treasure box.
The project demands interaction, involvement, communication, and a
multi-disciplinary form of collaboration. By drawing people into
situations where they actively participate in the working processes
they become part of the project and the art-work itself.
On locations the focus lies primarily on local people, portraying
their habits, passions and fears by using the shell as a laboratory
for artistic research. Creating interactive communication zones,
where a dialogue between the artist, the public and the arts can take place.
'The World in a Shell initiates a process of integration, cross-cultural or otherwise, to engender further creative impulses’
The aims of the project on locations
- Humbly counteracting western or any other culture-imperialism
by celebrating human cultural diversity. Singular and nomadic, the
World in a Shell serves as an inter-cultural 'swap-shop'.
- Portraying local individuals by facilitating "self-documentation",
which should breakdown prejudices and intercultural barriers, trying
to work out the common grounds and thus creating curiosities and
respect for distant people and their fate.
- Providing new impulses to develop long-lasting
solutions for daily problems and contribute to the
communication between local people, artists, scientists
and others.
- Implementing the World in a Shell project as a platform to establish worldwide
personal connections and knowledge transFAIR.
The aims of the project on exhibitions
- Pursuing an exciting and variegated presentation form and create a framework for an unconventional endeavour.
- Test new exhibition and mediation formats leading up to new models for exhibition making that are relevant to our time.
- Develop new strategies of presenting and mediating art.
- Inspire fresh ways of seeing and contextualizing contemporary art.
The following aims and objections in the research and design phase
have been achieved!
- Developing an autarkic and ecologically friendly
living and working unit.
- Creating synergy and stimulate intellectual cross-pollination.
- Implement and enhance a cross-faculty educational
process within the TUDelft with Inter-disciplinary projects,
which expands understanding and multiply the experiences
of students involved.
- By exchanging different visions with each other,
raise awareness and find potential and practical
solutions.
- Providing a new vision on sustainability and practise it.
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presentation TU Delft
Engineering meeting DelftTech and work discussion with students
 Exhibition situation
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