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PEPVCPTFEPEG
The exhibition PEPVCPTFEPEG at Uqbar and Kronenboden is the result of a collective research process by students of the HfG Karlsruhe from the Media Art (Artistic Photography) department under the direction of Professor Susanne Kriemann. The works presented here, are to be seen as reflections on the pending task of finding apt methods for a documentation of the long-term effects of 鈥榮low violence鈥� - and our own entanglement.
In the manner of a chemical compound, PEPVCPTFEPEG, combines the polymer structures of PE, PVC, PTFE, PEG to one monstrous string of various plastics. In current debate, the discussion focuses on the long-term effects of microplastics, that is on the small particles into which plastic disaggregates. Plastics, as (semi-)synthetic organic compounds were originally developed because of their 鈥榩lasticity.鈥� They are specifically malleable and can be molded into almost any possible object. Yet, this is also the reason that plastic is a very unstable material - plastic lives. Exposed to the weather, and especially in the open ocean, it breaks down quickly into 鈥榤ermaid tears.鈥� The term captures the dilemma of the situation of finding millions of these colorful, small pearls on the beaches.
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The exhibition PEPVCPTFEPEG at Uqbar and Kronenboden is the result of a collective research process by students of the HfG Karlsruhe from the Media Art (Artistic Photography) department under the direction of Professor Susanne Kriemann. The works presented here, are to be seen as reflections on the pending task of finding apt methods for a documentation of the long-term effects of 鈥榮low violence鈥� - and our own entanglement.
In the manner of a chemical compound, PEPVCPTFEPEG, combines the polymer structures of PE, PVC, PTFE, PEG to one monstrous string of various plastics. In current debate, the discussion focuses on the long-term effects of microplastics, that is on the small particles into which plastic disaggregates. Plastics, as (semi-)synthetic organic compounds were originally developed because of their 鈥榩lasticity.鈥� They are specifically malleable and can be molded into almost any possible object. Yet, this is also the reason that plastic is a very unstable material - plastic lives. Exposed to the weather, and especially in the open ocean, it breaks down quickly into 鈥榤ermaid tears.鈥� The term captures the dilemma of the situation of finding millions of these colorful, small pearls on the beaches.
