errant bodies | e+l | active refuse

To present our findings, we made an installation in the studio of Erik Göngrich at Greifsterwalde 218, Berlin. The installation functioned as the raw ingredients by which our project was built: a wall made up of photocopies from various sources which informed our thinking and research (pages from the History of Shit by Dominique Laporte, Douglas Huebler's Location Piece #13, brochures and information from Berlin's waste management offices (BSR and BKW plants), photos from our visits, and pages related to 'figging'). In the center of the wall was Huebler's original map of where he buried jugs of water in the Mojave Desert, and a map of Berlin identifying our own sites where ginger was planted. Another wall consisted of small shelves with mounds of compost bought at the BSR waste center, aligned in relation to a map of Berlin and where our ginger was planted. A video monitor showing footage taken from our visits to BSR and BKW, along with brief interviews with our tour guides. Outside the studio, we built a box to function as a receptacle for 'left-overs', 'excess', and 'scrap'. This was placed in front of the studio for the duration of 4 days, to collect whatever happened to find its way inside: bottles, tissues, pencils, even the abrasions left by angry kicks and bicycle wheels. In turn, we placed all our own scraps produced by our project: left-over wood, banana peels, beer bottles, broken items, etc.


Göngrich studio	constructed trash bin attached to studio	installation - thinking wall	installation - compost sculpture


Göngrich studio	constructed trash bin attached to studio	bag of Bio-Gut compost	installation - video presentation