Space Shelter Earth – Mud Volcano Research Trip with Marcus Neustetter, Andrei Tudose, Sabina Suru and Annick Bureaud
Incredibly rich, exciting, nurturing and rewarding research trip to Romania with @Marcus Neustetter for our project « Space Shelter Earth« . Thank you @Andrei Tudose, @Sabina Suru from @Marginal for having organised all this and having « explored the sheltering » with us!
We met great people, artists and scientists, thank you for having shared your time and knowledge with us @Alexandra Sofonea, @Gabriela Mateescu, @Ciprian Ciuclea, @Sorin Badea, Cosmin Ciobanu, @Ada Anghel, @Laura Albani, @Alexandra Costea, @Roxana Nicoara, @Andrei Raicu.
Needless to say that we took loads of images, a few hints of what happened through a radical selection.
Space Shelter Earth – Marcus Neustetter, Annick Bureaud, Andrei Tudose, Sabina Suru at Mud Volcano, oct 2024
The trip to the Mud Volcano as a potential field trip in our project has been extremely inspirational for the four of us, raising questions around our notions and understandings of “shelter”, Earth, “living geology”, planetary bodies, and more.
Space Shelter Earth – In situ pop up exhibition at Mud Volcano – Oct 2024
Marcus Neustetter created many drawings and in situ performances. The four of us (Annick Bureaud, Marcus Neustetter, Sabina Suru and Andrei Tudose) created those « inprints » of the environnement on perspex as a collective gesture and displayed them as an in situ pop up exhibition.
Space Shelter Earth, building a shelter for a plant in Sabina Suru’s studio in Bucharest, oct 2024
Back from the Mud Volcano, we discussed our notions of shelter, shared knowledge, learned about Romanian culture and history, while trying sheltering a plant for some space travel.
Space Shelter Earth, Annick Bureaud and Marcus Neustetter at Radio Guerilla for an interview with Sorin Badea, oct 2024
Space Shelter Earth, visiting the Technical Museum with its director Laura Albani, Sabina Suru and Andrei Tudose, oct 2024
We visited the Technical Museum in Bucharest with its director Laura Albani. Located in a beautiful park, the museum has a large gallery where Space Shelter Earth will land in 2025.
Space Shelter Earth, space artefact at the Technical Museum, oct 2024
The Technical Museum owns quite interesting artefacts such as this « jet backpack ».
Space Shelter Earth – Marcus Neustetter with neuroscientist Alexandra Sofonea, oct 2024
With neuroscientist Alexandra Sofonea, Marcus Neustetter had his brain waves monitored and experimented how it would affect them while he was drawing.
Space Shelter Earth, with Roxana Nicoara at the Biology Institute- oct 24
Meeting with Roxana Nicoara at the Biology Institute. She gave us a tour of the Institute Herbarium and, based on a selection of the plants archived in the Herbarium, a lecture about the Romanian endemic plants and poisonous or toxic plants (alluding to the fact that it was the Halloween week end).
Space Shelter Earth, with Roxana Nicoara from the Biology Institute at Vacaresti Oct 24
With its incredible history, Delta Vacaresti is another potential location for our field trip in the project. Roxana Nicoara came with us to show us the place, providing information about its history, pointing out some specific plants, particularly edible ones.
Space Shelter Earth – Neustetter in situ micro performance & installation Vacaresti oct 2024
Space Shelter Earth, Last cake before leaving nov 2024
We ended up our research trip by sharing a last creamy cake.
Now let’s plot for the shelter to be implemented at the @Technical Museum in Bucharest in 2025 together with Marginal!
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This research trip for « Space Shelter Earth » in Romania has been supported by Culture Moves Europe, a project funded by the European Union.
The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
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