This seminar begins with cleaning: wiping, sorting, deleting. The small acts we do (or avoid) to keep things going.
Cleaning is physical and emotional, practical and symbolic. It clears space, reveals systems, creates order or exposes chaos. As routine, as choreography, as gesture. Together we’ll look at cleaning and maintaining as creative, critical, and sometimes absurd practices. We will get our hands dirty, read care labels, exchange household tips and look into broom closets.
What does cleaning do to objects, spaces, systems, selves? Isn’t dirt just matter out of place? Can cities become too smooth? Who does all the work? How to remove spilled wax? We’ll respond in our own way. Conceptually, materially, research-based. Come with gloves, parsley between your teeth, with good and bad habits, and unfinished thoughts.
This is our bi-weekly putzplan:
Thursday afternoons are for group input: reading texts, looking at references, exchanging ideas. Fridays are for single consultations to discuss your projects.
Cleaning is physical and emotional, practical and symbolic. It clears space, reveals systems, creates order or exposes chaos. As routine, as choreography, as gesture. Together we’ll look at cleaning and maintaining as creative, critical, and sometimes absurd practices. We will get our hands dirty, read care labels, exchange household tips and look into broom closets.
What does cleaning do to objects, spaces, systems, selves? Isn’t dirt just matter out of place? Can cities become too smooth? Who does all the work? How to remove spilled wax? We’ll respond in our own way. Conceptually, materially, research-based. Come with gloves, parsley between your teeth, with good and bad habits, and unfinished thoughts.
This is our bi-weekly putzplan:
Thursday afternoons are for group input: reading texts, looking at references, exchanging ideas. Fridays are for single consultations to discuss your projects.
- Dozent/in: Lisa Ertel