PROJEKTE PROJECTS ELLA ZIEGLER
PROJEKTE / PROJECTS SIGNS I – IV National Route 1 / Karoo Desert / South Africa / 2016 INTARSIEN / INTARSIA Karoo Desert / South Africa / 2015 TURNING A STONE UPSIDE DOWN Karoo Desert / South Africa / 2015 TURN A BUSH 180º Karoo Desert / South Africa / 2015 PAIRI DAEZA Amerika Gedenkbibliothek Berlin / Germany / 2016 THE SOUND OF THE WIND Intervention in Public Space Aarhus / Denmark / 2017 PUT YOUR FOOT DOWN Intervention in Public Space Aarhus / Denmark / 2017 WATER BIRDS Collaboration with THE BITE BACK MOVEMENT ODYSSEE / ODYSSEY Project Möhnesee / Germany / 2017 P.I.E. PLANNING IMPOSSIBLE ERRORS Performative Collaboration with Skye Quadling & Karin Tan Bloemfontein / South Africa / 2017
SIGNS I – IV NATIONAL ROUTE 1 / KAROO DESERT / SOUTH AFRICA / 2016
INTARSIEN / INTARSIA KAROO DESERT / SOUTH AFRICA / 2015
Die Worte FEAR, ANXIETY, INVISIBLE und LINES wurden in den Boden eingelassen. Die Ziegelsteine wurden aus dem Wüstenboden von einem Ziegelmacher aus Richmond in der Karoo Wüste hergestellt.
The words FEAR, ANXIETY, INVISIBLE and LINES were embedded in the soil of the Karoo Desert. The stones are made from the local soil by a brick maker from Richmond in the Karoo Desert.
TURNING A STONE UPSIDE DOWN KAROO DESERT / SOUTH AFRICA / 2015
I turn over a 300-250 million-year-old stone that has been shaped by water and glacial movement.
TURNING A BUSH 180ยบ KAROO DESERT / SOUTH AFRICA / 2015
I dig out a bush and turn it 180 degrees in the ground.
PAIRI DAEZA AMERIKA GEDENKBIBLIOTHEK / BERLIN AMERICAN COMMEMORATIVE LIBRARY / BERLIN GERMANY / 2016
Das Wort Paradies entstammt der altpersischen Wortkombination Pairi Daeza und bezeichnet eine Mauer die einen Garten umschließt. Pairi Daeza beschreibt nicht die Gestalt des Paradieses, sondern eine architektonische Struktur wie zum Beispiel eine Mauer, einen Wall oder einen Zaun der einen Ort umgibt oder eine landschaftliche bzw. geologische Grenze wie das Meer das eine Insel umschließt, die Berge die ein Tal umschließen oder der Wald der eine Lichtung einfasst. Welches Aussehen und welche Gestalt das niemals von Menschen entdeckte Paradies hat, wurde von vielen Schriftsteller*innen und Künstler*innen beschrieben und visualisiert.
Auf die 18 Fenster des Lesesaals der Amerika Gedenkbibliothek wurden 18 Transkriptionen des Paradiesbegriffs mit Temperafarbe auf die Glasscheiben appliziert. Die Wortreihe beginnt mit der ersten königlichen Inschrift in ‘Aryan Script’ Keilschrift (522–486 BC) und endet mit dem zeitgenössischen englischen Wort paradise. Diese Arbeit wurde für das Ausstellungsprojekt Public Library in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Iranistik und der Bibliothek der Freien Universität, Berlin realisiert. Mein besonderer Dank gilt Dr. Götz König vom Institut für Iranistik an der Freien Universität, Berlin, sowie Gity Salami und Karmann Haghmoradi von der Abteilung Altertum /Orient der Bibliothek der Freien Universität, Berlin. 18 Transcriptions of the word paradise, from the first inscription in the royal ‘Aryan Script’ cuneiform (522– 486 BC) to the contemporary word paradise, applied with tempera to 18 windows of the reading room of the American Commemorative Library, Berlin. In cooperation with the Institute of Iranian Studies and the Library of the Freie Universität Berlin. Special thanks to Dr. Götz König (Freie Universität, Berlin, Institute of Iranian Studies) as well as Gity Salami and Karmann Haghmoradi (Library of the Freie Universität, Berlin, Department Antiquity /Orient).
Im Lesesaal der Amerika Gedenkbibliothek wird ein Buch ohne Titel ausgelegt, das sich nicht öffnen lässt, da es zwei Buchrücken hat. In the reading room of the America Commemorative Library, a book without title is displayed, which can not be opened because it has two spines.
THE SOUND OF THE WIND INTERVENTION IN PUBLIC SPACE AARHUS / DENMARK / 2017
Her Her er er grĂĽd grĂĽd respekteret respekteret
Halkan Halkan ohinta ohinta waa waa la la ixtiraama ixtiraama
"Here, crying is respected" Translation in Danish, Arabic and Somali.
Gellerup is a neighborhood in Aarhus where around 7.500 residents from over 80 different nations are living in housing blocks which were constructed in the end of the 60s. 80 % of the residents are refugees or have a migrant background and come from the Middle East, Arab States, North- and Central Africa, and from the Balkan. The howling sound of the wind in Gellerup made me think about crying. After numerous conversations about the phenomenon of crying with people who live in Gellerup and who are related to the neighborhood, I installed two signs and marked three areas in public space where crying is respected.
PUT YOUR FOOT DOWN GELLERUP / AARHUS / DENMARK / 2017
Next to the private primary school ‘Lykkeskole’ in Gellerup, Aarhus, I find a granite sculpture between granite barriers around the school. In the sculpture, the right foot is slightly raised.
Next to the sculpture I install a sign which says PUT YOUR FOOT DOWN. The English idiom was translated in Arabic, Danish and Somali.
WATER BIRDS COLLABORATION WITH THE BITE BACK MOVEMENT (UK, KOR) MÖHNESEE / GERMANY / 2017
Tattoos of a selection of the most common water birds which live at Möhnesee (Germany) were designed and distributed to the visitors and passers-by during the international Art Project ODYSSEE which was curated by Vlado Velko from Kunstverein Arnsberg at the so - called ‘Westphalian Sea’. The Project ODYSSEE took place on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Kunstverein Arnsberg. Special thanks to the ornithologist and biologist Prof. Dr. Stichmann from Möhnsee and to Alexander Augustus (UK) and Seung Youn Lee (Korea) from THE BITE BACK MOVEMENT.
P.I.E. PLANNING IMPOSSIBLE ERRORS PERFORMATIVE COLLABORATION ELLA ZIEGLER (GER) SKYE QUADLING (SA) KARIN TAN (SA) FREESTATE ARTS FESTIVAL / BLOEMFONTEIN SOUTH AFRICA / 2017
‘’Errors in general are perceived as uncomfortable incidences. We think it is time to change perspective and give errors a chance to transform in unforgettable positive life changing moments.’’ P.I.E. Planning Impossible Errors Team
P.I.E. - TEAM
Interventions, research, surveys, activism and campaigns in the name of errors by Skye Quadling (SA), Karin Tan (SA), and Ella Ziegler (GER).
Are there errors?
P.I.E. - CAMPAIGN
P.I.E. Team is installing 100 FAIL FAST and 100 FAIL SLOW posters on the Campus of University of the Freestate and at Hoffmann Square, downtown Bloemfontein.
P.I.E. Team campaigning for fast and slow failures in the city center of Bloemfontein.
P.I.E. - SUPPORTERS
Hundreds of error fans and failure supporters are already following P.I.E. Team, the bona fide error experts.
Gathering of failure supporters at Hoffmann Square / Bloemfontein.
P.I.E. - RESEARCH
P.I.E. Team is investigating objects in public space with high tech devices. The testing methods and the detectors follow the highest scientific requirements and international standards.
Investigating stone with error detector.
P.I.E. - TEAM AT WORK
The P.I.E. Team doing error research in the cheese and yogurt diary of the Agriculture Department, at the University of Bloemfontein in the Administration for Finances, and in the Center for Disaster Risk Management.
P.I.E. Team working in collaboration with the Supreme Court in Bloemfontein.
P.I.E. - SURVEY
The P.I.E. Team does artistic field studies with scientific error surveys.
P.I.E. - INTERVENTION
The origin of the name of the city of Bloemfontein is uncertain. One of the possible speculations about the origin of Bloemfontein is the existence of a wonderful rose garden which associates a fountain of flowers. In the so called Rose Garden in Kings Park, Bloemfontein we could not find any roses but an empty pedestal.
After a long and thorough research on the origin of the name ‘Bloemfontein’, P.I.E. Team installed a memorial plaque at Kings Park, Rose Garden in Bloemfontein. Chocolate and strawberry milkshakes were served at the solemn inauguration of the memorial tablet.
On the memorial plaque was written: “In Memory of Bloem the cow, who tragically drowned after she escaped her pen to quench her thirst at the fountain.� This story quotes a rumor about the origin of the name Bloemfontein.
The text on the memorial plaque was written in English, Sotho und Afrikaans.