what brings you to the ground_?

rahmung / framing

A. to bring somebody to the ground can be understood as an aggressive gesture during a battle. we all know how it feels like when we get forced to the ground – by every-day-life and the struggles that come with it, a personal or economical crisis, challenges we are faced with during the pandemic or the loss of close people and relationships.

B. but it can also be understood as coming back to the ground in a sense of feeling rooted and safe. in order to be „grounded“, we depend on an environment that is providing us the means. often, we are ignorant towards possibilities, things and their value, which are already within our reach. instead, living in a consumerist and capitalist society, we are constantly aiming for higher goals and material values hardly to achieve.

accordingly, the question leads to a reflection and exploration of our environment, of possibilities that existing spaces open up, it invites to experimenting with forms of living together, to an observation of materiality and objects within our surroundings, which are free to use in order to create something new, something that sustains – at least for a while.

C. and in a final sense, it leads to the reflection of our hopes and expectations towards the residency and the potential within this specific space itself: