Social Plastics brings together works in which art becomes a social situation rather than a fixed object.
These projects use tables, mobile structures, public actions, hospitality, shared materials and participatory formats to create temporary communities. Their meaning emerges through use: people gather, sit, eat, donate, talk, move, remember and take part.
Across these works, public space becomes a place where cultural experience is produced collectively.
OPEN SPACE MUSEUM
A social sculpture for public space, participation and shared cultural experience
The Open Space Museum extends the idea of social sculpture into public space. It is not conceived as a museum building, but as a modular situation in which people, objects, sound, movement and place form a temporary cultural environment.
The project proposes that a museum can exist wherever people gather to look, listen, move, remember and participate together. Instead of presenting art as something separated from everyday life, the Open Space Museum places artistic experience directly into streets, squares, landscapes and public settings.
As a social sculpture, the work is shaped by use. Visitors are not passive viewers; they become part of the spatial and social structure of the project. Their movement, attention, conversations and interactions help complete the work.
The Open Space Museum brings together modular architecture, sound works, augmented reality, performative objects and participatory formats. Its purpose is to create open cultural situations where public space becomes a shared field of perception, encounter and imagination.
In this sense, the Open Space Museum proposes that the museum is no longer only a building, but a social behaviour in public space.
JOINED IN CONSUME
A study in the art of up-cycling
Joined in Consume is a social sculpture built around a large communal table. The work uses the table as both object and social stage: a place where people sit, eat, talk, observe and become part of the artwork through the simple act of gathering.
The table is constructed from borrowed, leftover and re-used materials. Shopping carts form the support structure, acrylic glass remnants become the tabletop, and stacked beverage crates serve as seating. The work brings together up-cycling, re-cycling, down-cycling and off-cycling as practical and symbolic strategies.
Rather than presenting sustainability as an abstract topic, the project makes material circulation physically present. Visitors do not only look at rescued materials; they sit on them, eat at them and use them as part of a shared public situation.
The table also functions as a frame for food-based artistic actions, including experimental culinary works and speculative food objects. In this sense, Joined in Consume is not only a constructed object, but an infrastructure for participation, hospitality and cultural exchange.
FAHRBAR / ARTSBAR
Mobile social sculpture, hospitality, micro-publics and participatory cultural formats
FahrBar ArtsBar extends the idea of social sculpture into mobile and participatory cultural formats. Conceived as a movable platform for art, music, hospitality and public encounter, the project creates temporary micro-publics: small social spaces in which visitors become part of the work’s atmosphere, exchange and cultural meaning.
Rather than treating art as an object placed inside an institution, the FahrBar ArtsBar project treats the event itself as a living form — a mobile cultural situation that can appear in markets, streets, courtyards, neighbourhood spaces and informal public settings.
The project combines the accessibility of a mobile bar with the conceptual language of participatory art. It brings together table culture, small concerts, conversation, informal exhibition formats and direct social exchange. In this sense, the FahrBar ArtsBar is not simply a service structure or event vehicle, but a framework for producing shared cultural moments.
Its artistic value lies in the way it transforms ordinary situations into cultural encounters. A drink, a table, a song, a short conversation, a small artwork or a shared moment in public space becomes part of a larger social composition. The work is not only what is presented; it is also what happens between people.
The FahrBar ArtsBar therefore belongs to a wider practice concerned with mobility, participation and the creation of temporary cultural communities. It proposes a modest but precise form of public art: one that is portable, hospitable, direct and socially alive.
ARTISTS BLOOD WANTED
An action of artistic solidarity for those who have bled
Artists Blood Wanted is a participatory public action centred on donation, solidarity and visible collective contribution. The work takes the form of a long picnic table that gradually becomes marked by the blood donations of participating artists.
Artists were invited to donate blood for the local blood bank. Each donation was matched with an equivalent amount of red paint applied to the table. In this way, the table became a public indicator of shared commitment: a visible record of individual acts joined into a collective gesture.
The project connects the symbolic language of blood with the practical reality of medical donation. It shifts artistic participation away from representation and toward a direct social act with civic consequence.
Documentation of the donation process, the blood station and the painted table formed part of the work. Artists Blood Wanted treats solidarity not as a metaphor, but as something that must be enacted, measured and made visible.
WARM@HOME
An interactive video installation for two performers and a house
warm@home is an interactive video installation and performance about domestic memory, human contact and the emotional temperature of social life.
The work uses the image of the house as a structure for intimacy, loss, memory and desire. Home is treated not only as architecture, but as a psychological and social condition: something remembered, wished for, reconstructed or missed.
Drawing on ideas of human warmth and social sculpture, the installation asks how contact is produced between bodies, images and spaces. Touch, gaze, memory and movement become materials within the work.
The project combines performance, video and spatial installation to create a situation in which visitors encounter warmth as both metaphor and condition. Words, gestures and images are used to measure the fragile distance between isolation and contact.
SWISSREMAKE
Public art / social sculpture installation for 3D screen
SwissReMake is a public art project developed for the 3D NOVA screen in Zurich main station. The work uses the Swiss flag as a visual system that can be transformed, varied and re-read in public space.
An algorithmic application continuously generates variations of the national flag. These variations remain recognisable, but they also disturb the stability of the symbol. The project stages national identity as something that is not fixed, but repeatedly adapted, interpreted and remade.
The visual sequences are accompanied by statements from artists and scientists on cultural adaptation, technological change and the transformation of tradition. Between the variations, the original Swiss flag occasionally reappears, creating a rhythm between continuity and change.
Presented in one of Switzerland’s busiest public transit spaces, SwissReMake addressed a large daily audience during moments of ordinary urban movement. The work brought questions of technology, identity and cultural transformation into the everyday flow of the city.