In his talk, Michael Hirschbichler advocates Drecksarbeit (dirty work) as a contemporary mode for art and world making.
“Amidst contaminated landscapes, covered with tenacious traces and endless claims and ideologies, with hopes, dreams, fears and stories, with waste, waste, waste, all art and all life is dirty work.
Instead of adding new promises and toxins, wouldn’t it make sense to figure out what to do with all those that are already here and that won’t just go away?
Rather than starting from scratch, dirty work attends to accumulated pasts and attempted and aborted futures. It grapples with the leftovers, fragments, debris of things, ideologies and lives, with the facts and fictions that haunt every spot on Earth, with the many ghosts that abound and demand engagement.”
Quoted from: Michael Hirschbichler, “Drecksarbeit / Dirty Work. A Manifesto,” in Review Summer 2022 (Vienna: IKA, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), 20.
Michael Hirschbichler is a transdisciplinary artist working across architecture and anthropology – with his practice Atelier Hirschbichler and as professor for design and experimental creation at HafenCity University Hamburg. In his work and research, he investigates the connections between spaces and worldviews. With an approach that he calls ‘dirty work,’ he engages with places, landscapes, and environments, along with associated tales, memories, myths, and ideologies. By critically exploring the existing and combining both material and immaterial aspects, facts, and fictions, he attempts to construct a possible situated worldview of our time. Michael Hirschbichler was a lecturer at ETH Zurich and HSLU Lucerne, the director of the Architecture Program at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology, a visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and a postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft, Goldsmiths and Aarhus University. He was an artist-in-residence at the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome, YARAT Contemporary Art Space in Baku, the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, Binz39 Foundation in Zurich, Villa Kamogawa (Goethe Institut) in Kyoto and SACO (Goethe Institut and Institut Français) in Antofagasta. His work has been shown, among others, at Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin), artQ13 (Rome), Kunstverein Ingolstadt, House of Architecture HDA (Graz), Helmhaus (Zurich), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam).
www.atelier-hirschbichler.com
www.hcu-hamburg.de/prof-dr-michael-hirschbichler
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