Common Objects / Gewöhnliche Objekte
Authors
Savicic, Gordan
Author (Corporation)
Publication date
27.08.2022
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Course of study
Type
14 - Contribution to an exhibition
Editors
Miyazaki, Shintaro
Schneider, Birgit
Silvestrin, Daniela
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Parent work
Forests of Antennas, Oceans of Waves
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Museum für Kommunikation Berlin
Place of publication / Event location
Berlin
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Abstract
The present intervention is a temporary engagement with the exhibition Curious Communication. Unusual Objects and Stories from the Collection, which stages uncommon objects and rituals pertaining to telecommunication. We seek to complement this perspective with objects that are everyday, yet hidden in the heights of telecommunication masts and towers, such as 4G and 5G antennas, and satellite receptors. Proliferation naturalises them as mundane infrastructure, sometimes even mimicking nature.
Antennas are objects that increasingly re-naturalise electromagnetism: engineered to facilitate communication between people, they put to use the disposition of metals to resonate with radio waves, picking up both human-made and natural emissions, and figuring in urban and rural landscapes to secure global interconnectivity.
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Subject (DDC)
700 - Künste und Unterhaltung
Event
Forests of Antennas, Oceans of Waves
Exhibition start date
14.05.2022
Exhibition end date
09.10.2022
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Yes
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Review
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Citation
SAVIC, Selena und Gordan SAVICIC, 2022. Common Objects / Gewöhnliche Objekte. Shintaro MIYAZAKI, Birgit SCHNEIDER und Daniela SILVESTRIN (Hrsg.), Forests of Antennas, Oceans of Waves. Berlin: Museum für Kommunikation Berlin, 27 August 2022. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-4952