La Libertine Steaming

MARIA LOBODA

performance
"that obscure object (The bad boys of Harvard)"

10:12:10 to 13:02:11 Location: When Axel Schneider

"along the Braubachstrasse, Frankfurt aM

Photo The bad boys of Harvard was "a group of young landscape architecture students at Garrett Eckbo and James Rose called Harvard in the 30s, which were strongly influenced in their work by Gropius, Moholy Nagy and Malevich.
you object to the, to date, traditional view of American landscape architecture, "Beaux-Art Movement" which is the preferred implementation of a decorative and are still considered pioneers of a modern, more radical, socially-oriented design.
James Rose was expelled for his progressive ideas of indoor and outdoor gardens with an emphasis on geometric design from Harvard.
In her new work in situ, "The bad boys of Harvard" Maria Loboda deals with the idea of radical landscape arrangements, as well as the surreal plane which was a "continuity mistake", an appearance in the film art, which is caused by incorrect wiring in the scene coordinator or the cutting technology brings with it.
Several geometrically cut boxwood in fact a bourgeois symbol, move, on a weekly basis, in public spaces around the MMK and the Frankfurter Kunstverein, as a kind of forest in motion "- a gang that their passive role as a decorative garden elements give up by changing their location and provide the architecture of public space in its path.
This performance "in flux", developed her narrative gradually over the whole exhibition. By changing the position of the protagonists; of boxwood, plays Maria Loboda also on the errors in the course of a Choreopraphie.
Cancels the "continuity mistake" in everyday life, the boundaries between reality and fiction are called into question. The thought of losing control over the phenomena of everyday life, the experience that the "I is not master in its own house" (Sigmund Freud), the opening of a surreal space in the city, allows the viewer to his own narration in relation to time and place to experience again.

Maria Loboda was born in 1979 in Krakow, Poland. She studied at the Städelschule. She lives and works in Berlin.

With special thanks to: Nursery Peselmann, Bad Homburg