3D Clay Exchange Project

MUC-LDN - printed emergence - documentation @xxijrahii_ 01-11 March 2023 Hesse + Wakil @faby0o @dynamitra - Hufe / Hooves Unfired London wild clay, 3D-prints based on woodcuts by Georgius Acricola from the book ”De Re Metallica“ (1556) #clay3dprinting #wildclay #contemporaryart #exchangeproject

MUC-LDN - printed emergence - documentation @xxijrahii_ 01 - 11 March 2023 Ivo Rick @ivorick - byte byte 03 3D-printed glazed ceramic with London wild clay #clay3dprinting ##wildclay #contemporaryart #exchangeproject

MUC-LDN - printed emergence - documentation @xxijrahii_ 01 - 11 March 2023 Achinoam Alon @bizzaro__achi - Earth Fax 1 3D-printed ceramic with London wild clay, jesmonite, pigment In 3DCXP, two groups of four artists - located either in London or Munich - sent digital models to each other. These were 3D-printed in each artists respective city with locally-sourced clay. What was conceived as a workaround to restricted travel routes due to the pandemic, increased custom thresholds and avoidance of flight-emissions, has allowed the importance of hosting to come into the foreground. #clay3dprinting #wildclay #contemporaryart #exchangeproject

MUC-LDN - printed emergence - documentation @xxijrahii_ 01 - 11 March 2023 Hesse + Wakil @faby0o @dynamitra - Sieben / Sieving - Hammerhand 3D-printed ceramic with London wild clay, based on woodcuts by Georgius Agricola from the book ”De Re Metallica“ (1556) This show features works by: (MUC) → Achinoam Alon @bizzaro__achi → Fabian Hesse @faby0o → Mitra Wakil @dynamitra → Ivo Rick @ivorick The production of these works and the design/prodution of the exhibition display was taken care of by: (LDN) ← Nicola Arthen @nic_draft ← Estefanía Batista Flores @estefantastic ← Maria Joranko @foxy_azucar ← Kate Kuaimoku @damnitgranite #clay3dprinting #wildclay #contemporaryart #exchangeproject

MUC-LDN - printed emergence - documentation @xxijrahii_ 01 - 11 March 2023 Ivo Rick @ivorick - byte byte 02 (doublegum) 3D-printed unfired ceramic with London wild clay Within the potentials of a fluid virtual and physical embodiment, we must consider the geographic and socio-political contexts of the point of printed emergence, and the material. By choosing clay as the substrate, we intentionally create a relationship with native ecology and its systemic positioning. The energy of a place is deeply manifested through the earth along with its politics. Each mineral, plant, creature and human plays a different part in contributing to the way that system and energy exists. Through the use of clay as a medium we have embodied one of the oldest metaphors for human and earthen connection: the relationship between land and our culturally specific ideation of self. In crafting with locally foraged wild clay, we tune into and merge with untempered energy that carries a piece of the essence of London to give form to hybrid works that have traveled the cloud to emerge here. These hybrid objects in the physical realm have had their digital forms and codes manipulated and re-edited so that they can sustain a form that is structurally sound in our 3D planes. Each file has traveled long distances, and gone through multiple evolutions - some of which failed in print, but also yielded clues and solutions to their embodied selves. Each ‘failure’ becomes a lesson that holds clues to the potential of a duality of planes that become enmeshed and don't depend on an exclusively virtual reality. This is perhaps the start of a bridging and mediation of virtual and physical realities; the beginnings of a symbiosis that keeps us grounded in imagining and hosting fluid forms that can go between the realms and further mystify and defy categorization. Press release (excerpt) @foxy_azucar #clay3dprinting #wildclay #contemporaryart #exchangeproject

MUC-LDN - printed emergence - documentation @xxijrahii_ 01 - 11 March 2023 Hesse + Wakil @faby0o @dynamitra - Sieben / Sieving - Hammerhand 3D-printed ceramic with London wild clay, based on woodcuts by Georgius Agricola from the book ”De Re Metallica“ (1556) Fabian Hesse and Mitra Wakil work with the gaps in new technologies, exploring its potential for alternative realities. They use modes of alienation as speculative forms of world-building in sculpture, installation and performative scenarios. Wakil and Hesse create starting points for idiosyncratic and self-determined modification, in collective situations and platforms, also at the interface with mediation, in order to give space to emancipatory perspectives and usages of digital fabrication technologies. Hesse + Wakil are based in Berlin and Munich, their projects have amongst others taken place at the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, Haus der Kunst Munich, Goethe-Institut Bengaluru, 54th Venice Biennale, Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, nGbK Berlin, Fellbach Triennale. As part of their professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig they are developing a research institute for digital fabrication. #clay3dprinting #wildclay #contemporaryart #exchangeproject

MUC-LDN - printed emergence - documentation @xxijrahii_ 01 - 11 March 2023 Achinoam Alon @bizzaro__achi - Earth Fax 2 3D-printed ceramic with London wild clay, jesmonite, pigment Humans have a long history of being fascinated with creating ways to extend their own reality. Through the use of mythology, arts, and technology our species has been finding ways to stretch the ways we imagine ourselves existing in the world. Within current discussions of moving increasingly to meta and virtual realities in order to escape the environmental and systemic devastations of our physical world, there is a heavy focus on constructing new realities and existences that are centered in the virtual. From the digitization of artifacts for preservation, to designing RPG characters, to the modeling of fantastical environments in programs such as Blender or Unreal Engine: we are creating hybrids that serve as parallel and semi-fantastical existences for ourselves, our histories, and environments. 3D printing challenges the ways in which we can consider the physical existence of our online avatars, artworks, and creations. They are no longer relegated to the digital realm, but can be given retranslated or newly invented physical bodies and manifestations. When we consider the exchange of files and the care extended to bring these objects into being, the works become bundles of traveling matrices that evade systemically imposed borders. They transform into items guided by physical qualities and contexts from their newly located geographic areas and materials. They can become moments of speculative imagining that can push the boundaries of how we construct holistic fusions of our parallel worlds. press release (excerpt) @foxy_azucar #clay3dprinting #wildclay #contemporaryart #exchangeproject

MUC-LDN - printed emergence - documentation @xxijrahii_ 01-11 March 2023 Ivo Rick - byte byte 01 3D-printed glazed ceramic with London wild clay Ivo Rick is a sculptor based in Munich, Germany. His works address the question of artistic production in the age of digitally-technically-normed reproduction. He makes use of 3D printing and algorithmically driven design and combines their output with handcrafted elements composed of various materials such as ceramics, wood, steel or textile. The interplay between the organic body and its cultural and technological milieu is a central topic of his artistic research. In his recent collaborative projects he engages with questions of decentralized, sustainable production on an international basis. Rick has studied sculpture at AdBK Munich and ECA Edinburgh and graduated as “Meisterschüler” of Olaf Metzel in 2017. He received a working stipend from Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn in 2021. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at (i.a.: Hartslane Gallery, London; Goethe Institute Paris; Ars Electronica, Linz; VENT gallery, Vienna; Kunstverein Munich (solo); Galerie der Künstler:innen, Munich (solo); Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Bröhan-Museum, Berlin; Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam. #clay3dprinting #wildclay #contemporaryart #exchangeproject

MUC-LDN - printed emergence - documentation @xxijrahii_ 01 - 11 March 2023 Achinoam Alon @bizzaro__achi - Earth Fax 3 3D-printed ceramic with London wild clay, jesmonite, pigment Achinoam Alon is an artist working in Munich and Berlin, she studied sculpture at the Academies of Fine Arts in Munich with Prof. Nicole Wermers and in Nuremberg, where she recently graduated as a Meisterschülerin of Prof. Michael Stevenson. Her works have been shown in Briefing Room, Brussels, Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich, Kunstverein Nuremberg and Lemoyne Project, Zurich among others. #clay3dprinting #wildclay #contemporaryart #exchangeproject

MUC-LDN - printed emergence - documentation @xxijrahii_ 01 - 11 March 2023 In 3DCXP, two groups of four artists - located either in London or Munich - sent digital models to each other. These were 3D-printed in each artists respective city with locally-sourced clay. What was conceived as a workaround to restricted travel routes due to the pandemic, increased custom thresholds and avoidance of flight-emissions, has allowed the importance of hosting to come into the foreground. This show features works by: (MUC) → Achinoam Alon @bizzaro__achi → Fabian Hesse @faby0o → Mitra Wakil @dynamitra → Ivo Rick @ivorick The production of these works and the design/production of the exhibition display was taken care of by: (LDN) ← Nicola Arthen @nic_draft ← Estefanía Batista Flores @estefantastic ← Maria Joranko @foxy_azucar ← Kate Kuaimoku @damnitgranite Graphic design by @julieheneault @noem_held @accessallareas.work #clay3dprinting #wildclay #contemporaryart #exchangeproject

Hey London Friends! We are excited to present the London edition of the 3DCXP on Wednesday, March 1 from 6pm-9pm at Xxijra Hii @xxijrahii_ Initiated by @nic_draft and @ivorick in 2020, 3DCXP is an ongoing collaboration. We host the second edition ‘Printed Emergence’ for just two weeks - don’t miss it! Open Weds - Sat 01/04 - 11/03 between 12-6pm each day. 3D printing challenges the ways in which we can consider the physical existence of our online avatars, artworks, and creations. They are no longer relegated to the digital realm, but can be given retranslated or newly invented physical bodies and manifestations. When we consider the exchange of files and the care extended to bring these objects into being, the works become bundles of traveling matrices that evade systemically imposed borders. They transform into items guided by physical qualities and contexts from their newly located geographic areas and materials. They can become moments of speculative imagining that can push the boundaries of how we construct holistic fusions of our parallel worlds. In crafting with locally foraged wild clay, we tune into and merge with untempered energy that carries a piece of the essence of London to give form to hybrid works that have traveled the cloud to emerge here. The artists whose work will be presented are: Achinoam Alon @bizzaro__achi Hesse+Wakil @faby0o @dynamitra Ivo Rick @ivorick Hosted by: @xxijrahii_ Estefania Batista-Flores @estefantastic Kate Kuaimoku @damnitgranite Maria Joranko @foxy_azucar Nicola Arthen @nic_draft

Meet the Artists: Hesse + Wakil @faby0o + @dynamitra Fabian Hesse & Mitra Wakil work with the gaps in new technologies, exploring its potential for alternative realities. They use modes of alienation as speculative forms of world-building in sculpture, installation and performative scenarios. Wakil and Hesse create starting points for idiosyncratic and self-determined modification, in collective situations and platforms, also at the interface with mediation, in order to give space to emancipatory perspectives and usages of digital fabrication technologies. Hesse & Wakil are based in Berlin and Munich, their projects have amongst others taken place at the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, Haus der Kunst Munich, Goethe-Institut Bengaluru, 54th Venice Biennale, Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, nGbK Berlin, Fellbach Triennale. As part of their professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig they are developing a research institute for digital fabrication. image captions: 01-02 Westpark Clouds, public art, aluminium, Munich 2016 03-04 Training objects, 3d prints, bioplastics, 2022