Grosse Regionale 2023
Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil, SwitzerlandCurator: Céline Gaillard, Simone Kobler, Irene Grillo
Artists: Ueli Alder; Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer; Thassiannira Araujo Sousa; Christine Bächlin; Bianca Barandun; Tomas Baumgartner; David Berweger; Flurin Bisig; Johanna Bossart; Sarah Burger; Alfons Bürgler, Zeno Schneider & Andreas Weber; Asi Föcker; Gregor Frehner; Walter Fröhlich; Flora Frommelt; Eva Gadient; Nicola Genovese; Amina Giger; Colin Guillemet; huber.huber; Stefan Inauen; Tamara Janes; Katrin Keller; Eline Kersten; Dominique Lämmli; Mirjam Landolt & Natalia Wespi; Marc Lee; Georgette Maag; Jean Marin; Aldo Mozzini; Brigit Naef; Marlies Pekarek; Corina Rauer; Jérémy Rebord; Karin Reichmuth; Valentin Rilliet; Dominique Rust, Clarissa Herbst & Michael Wolf; Nora Schmidt; Janine Schranz; Harlis Schweizer Hadjidj; Denys Shantar; Pascal Sidler; Lourenço Soares; Felix Stöckle; Bignia Wehrli; Birgit Widmer, Finn O’Hare & Martina Morger; Selina Zürrer
Alte Fabrik Rapperswil
The juried exhibition of regional art in 2023 presents the current work of 47 artists from the cantons of St. Gallen, Appenzell Ausser- and Innerrhoden, Glarus, Schwyz and Zurich.
Marc Lee (*1969, ZH) experiments with with information and communication technologies. His projects reflect and scrutinise cultural, ecological and social aspects of our world and present them on a creative and informative level. "Used to Be My Home Too" is a network-orientated art project that Marc Lee initiated in 2021. Photos of animals, fungi and plants are displayed on a screen and uploaded in real time by users to the iNaturalist.org platform via mobile phone. As a social network, iNaturalist.org strives for a strong connection between people and nature and promotes the global documentation of biodiversity. On Google Earth, the images are mapped exactly at the location where they were photographed. Via RedList.org, a comprehensive source of information on the distribution of animal, fungal and plant species, they are also taxonomically assigned to similar species that occurred in the same country and have become extinct within the last 30 years. Used to Be My Home Too shows the enormous biological diversity of our planet, but also emphasises its massive decline on a global scale and illustrates this change. The work also shows how humans have become biodiverse agents interacting with the most fundamental processes of the Earth. "Used to Be My Home Too" can also be installed on your own computer at home and used with additional functions, such as the delimitation of animal species or locations.
Text: Irene Grillo
Exhibited Artwork
Used to Be My Home Too
Real-time cartographyThis experiment shows photos of animals, fungi and plants that are uploaded right now by unknown users to iNaturalist.org via mobile phone. On Google Earth, these are mapped at the exact location where they were photographed. In addition, taxonomically similar species that occurred in the same country and became extinct within the last 30 years are automatically added in real time via RedList.org. Used more …
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