Giona Bierens de Haan
Ruines
Giona Bierens de Haan (1987)
100% independent, Espace Picto
Master of Science in Architecture, EPFL, 2012
Ruines
2023
Théâtre du Grütli, Geneva
Scenography for the play S’enraciner dans les ruines by Dorothée Thébert and Filippo Filliger
Ateliers de décors de théâtres, Geneva
Tower
1.2 × 1.2 × 5 m
Stainless steel, grey carpet, beeswax, water, LED
Ruines as an ensemble seems to instrumentalise actions where form keeps fading away to release times and speeds; dimensions of multiplicities, extensive and intensive. Repetitions and differences. (…) The proposal delves both into the certainty and the improbability of the functioning and meaning of the machinery, and it does so as a resource and power of questioning. It explores the “nature” and dynamics of certain object articulations, manufacturing entities, users and interactors of these rituals in a critical process, of expansion and deconstruction of the imaginary –the neo-positivist, productivist and consumerist imaginary, among others. It reveals the machines, devices, objects and organisations that we deploy as we engage with the world. It displays and strains different ways of binding us with each other, from conquering, colonising positions and actions to those of mutually modifying coexistence, closer to world-becoming.