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Offshore Studio / Migrant Journal / Nº4: Dark Matters / Magazine / 2018
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Offshore Studio / Migrant Journal / Nº4: Dark Matters / Magazine / 2018
Humankind and plants are engaged in an intimate and complex relationship. The beings and survival of both is the result of hybridisation, networks, exchange and migration. However, although plants move and change like human beings do, their pace of movement and scale of exchange are mostly too intricate to enter the doors of human perception. Yet it might be worth looking closer: Understanding and admiring the abilities of plants to collaborate and evolve on a planetary scale, could allow us to rethink a world not through political borders and nation states, but through the lens of collaborative networks of exchange. Simply, because at the end of the day, purity is not an option: The membranes of human culture are as permeable as those of individual plants. By introducing a group of fictional plants we provoke questions about their evolution and urge to look at them in a new light: Not as solitary and immutable objects, forever frozen by the gaze of scientific categorisation, but as subjects that evolve constantly in all sorts of unexpected and collective ways.
The set of fictional plants are developed by Offshore (Isabel Seiffert & Christoph Miler) and are part of the mixed-media installation “Welcome to Borderland”, curated by researcher and writer Justinien Tribillon, currently on view at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2021.
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Migrants in the field of interests of the designers from Offshore Studio
Managing the wild concept and illustration for a PCB wip
by Offshore
Welcome to Borderland! More soon…
EDITORS: Jessica Gysel, Christoph Miler, Isabel Seiffert ART DIRECTION & GRAPHIC DESIGN: Offshore Studio PUBLISHER: Jan van Eyck Academie
Contributing artists and writers: Persis Bekkering, Frederik Willem Daem, David Habets, Christoph Miler, Viktor Hachmang, Anna Haifisch, Fabio Barille, Guillaume Simoneau, Marvin Leuvrey, Elena Aya Bundurakis, Grace Ndiritu. PURCHASE VIA https://www.janvaneyck.nl/shop/elements-book-2021