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Screening von „Die Ausstattung der Welt“ / „Make Up the World“  (Buch, Regie, Produktion: Susanne Weirich, Robert Bramkamp, D 2023, 99 Min). 

Kuratorenstatement:

Metabolism: Inorganic Evolution
—Robert Bramkamp & Susanne Weirich: Film Showcase and Workshops
Before entering the horizon of artistic practice, objects or props often remain dormant at the dead-ends of functionality or within the redundancies of global supply chains—static entities in a state of “suspended animation” under standardized production. However, in the intertwined practices of Robert Bramkamp and Susanne Weirich, these inorganic bodies are stripped from their mundane routines and transformed into active existences that bridge the boundaries between the material and the biological, fact and fiction. In this context, objects are no longer cold residues of history, but “live participants” undergoing continuous metabolism, self-proliferation, and narrative evolution.
This metamorphosis stems from the deep convergence of two distinct creative logics: Weirich utilizes spatial installations to deconstruct the social coding of matter, employing serial expansion and the fragile transformation of materials to evoke a sense of ritual released during the “disappearance” of physical form—hinting at the displacement of life and the projection of spirit. Meanwhile, Bramkamp penetrates the surface of the object through a “Docu-fiction” cinematic engine, implanting fictional evolutionary genes. By using moving image interventions to blur the threshold between the documentary and the fabricated, he endows standardized industrial products with subjective desire and narrative momentum.
This represents a complementary evolutionary path for the “Object”: Bramkamp drives the
evolutionary soul of the narrative, while Weirich shapes the tactile body of matter. Through film screenings, dialogues, and workshop practices, we will witness how objects transfigure from standardized dead matter on an assembly line into narrative with emotional tension and historical depth. Here, the evolution of the inorganic is no longer a physical accident, but a vitalistic metabolism driven by artistic will, a moving-image experiment on the reconstruction of reality.
Text by Zhichao Zhu