Das MUSEUM DER VERBORGENEN WÖRTER zu Gast im Hochofenmuseum Radwerk IV
wAFFENstillstand in friEDENsgefährdeten Zeiten
“Beim Gendern entsteht Urin” / “Beim Gendern entsteht Gin”, 2025
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Space Appropriators Interventions and performances in urban space Space Appropriators are based on existing and familiar, usually, table games, fuse art and design, and are realized with simple media. Pattern-based, as many games and systems are, Space Appropriators were applied and have the potential to be applied on different urban designs and contexts, and reinvent anonymous, unnoticed and unused aspects of public space. They add value, meaning and energy to a variety of urban situations and designs, offering them for alternative use. The main purpose of these appropriations is to stimulate divergent thinking. Divergent thinking is an essential tool for provoking creativity. The creative user of the public space is an active and engaged citizen. Active and engaged citizens create a strong sense of place and community. A stronger sense of place and community increases the level of comfort and safety in public spaces. Space Appropriators prompt spontaneous engagement and interaction with one's immediate physical and social environment. These delicate and yet powerful interventions in the public space appropriate without occupying or destroying and rather offer shared urban space typologies for communal use. Sharing in public space increases the level of trust, which is favoured as a qualitative measure for social capital. Each Space Appropriator employs a different situation or element in the urban fabric in order to question their status quo and positively rethink and creatively alter the urban human habitat. They are about shifting the notion of playing and most of all about transforming ingeniously urban design paradigms and behavioural patterns on a daily basis. Space Appropriators offer a different frame of reference and question modes of behaviour, notions of ownership, safety, sharing and freedom in the public space. They are about rethinking the public space and our role, attitude and relation to it and from here to all agencies involved in its construction, government and policies. More detailed information and documentation is to be found the bilingual book iGRAZ/Space Appropriators (2016, English/German, ISBN-13: 978-1537617305). The book is collecting the visual documentation and experience of more than 25 interventions in the public space and some events in which the Space Appropriators were involved. For these few years the project accumulated significant, and I would allow myself to say, impressing visuals and knowledge, embodying divergence thinking and proactive attitude towards one's environment. |
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MISSION
The
“Museum of Hidden Words” is an ongoing art and research project
by artist Veronika Tzekova (veroniKATZEkova), dedicated to the visual
perception of language and the development of a distinctive artistic
approach to language.
At its heart are “CDoupbles” –
artworks based on a linguistic phenomenon in which words accidentally
contain other words, without any etymological connection between
them.
The resulting artworks make hidden linguistic
relationships visible and invite us to experience language as a
treasure trove of miniature scenarios and spaces of meaning.
FOCUS
AREAS
One of the museum's main focuses is the ongoing research, collection, archiving and categorisation of “CDoupbles”, particularly those that open up intriguing, surprising or ambiguous scenarios.
The second focus is the artistic interpretation of “CDoupbles”, as well as the production, collection and presentation of the artworks that emerge from them.#
PUBLIC PRESENCE
The museum features a permanent information display introducing its mission and focus areas, as well as the concept and development of CDoupbles. Its six sections explore the linguistic phenomenon, the visual perception of language, associative thinking, the variety of artistic forms, the languages and themes explored, and the project's development and history.
A screen runs a 24/7 slideshow featuring a selection of works from the museum's collection.
Two dynamic features – CDoupble Spotlight and Tongue-in-Cheek – keep the museum in motion. They regularly showcase selected pieces from the collection, fresh inspiration and newly created works.
enjoy visually and intellectually
Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz, Österreich
contact
museumofhiddedwords.contact@gmail.com
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| My Blog challengedgames.blogspot.co.at The CHAlleNGED GAMES blog was conceived with the hope to stimulate divergence thinking and challenge the viewer to rethink one's routines and shift his/her perspective on the status quo. The blog was initially dedicated to the CHAlleNGED GAMES series and seeks for extended meaning in playing and its relation to aspects of human existence and production. As with the time I started to experiment with another system - the language, to apply mathematical logic and seek patterns in words, in the last years my publications are mostly about this part of my work. |  |
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| Veronika Tzekova — veronika.tzekova@gmail.com |
