Poster Eating Fish Or Angels (© Moritz Appich, Johanna Schäfer und Mona Mayer)
Eating Fish Or Angels encompasses objects, actions, performances and and installations that were collected over a period of 10 months and finally brought together in an installation.
Content, media and ephemera from everyday life in her role as a communication designer are viewed from a distance in order to approach them again with a new perspective and artistic means. The inherent logics and narrative structures that emerge explore the boundaries of productive and unproductive, meaningful and meaningless activity, as well as different disciplines, identities and structures.
Oftenly Iinspired by the work of Bruno Munari, the trail follows ephemeral materials and observations. By translating content from one medium to the next, unexpected new meanings and contexts emerge. This results in independent objects, notes, photos, videos and sound, which are collected in a fragile, self-built shelf made of wooden remnants and digitally on a tablet. Their unexpected encounters and media overlays give rise to new narratives, games and contexts of meaning that continually put meaningfulness and meaninglessness to the test in an emerging world of things with undecidable status.
In the exhibition, the storage shelf is translated into a space-creating, multimedia installation. By exploring it, the processes of the working period are made tangible.
Three actions that took place during the 10 months of the process period were ‘Far vedere l'aria - Making the air visible’, the performative reading ‘Orange,...’ (with Johanna Schäfer) and the exhibition ‘Vorspeise’ at TV-Hifi with the launch of the publication ‘Orange,...’ together with Johanna Schäfer.