Momentarium : : by Markuz Wernli Saitô

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The Magazine: The project outcome from my residency in Sardinia (Spring 2010) is featured in the November issue of Milan-based art mag KALEIDOSCOPE.

"Special Mention" at iD+consonni call for Public Art.

With Eva Petric and Zoran Poposki I filed a proposal for "Culinary Connections in Sondika" that received was among the top 5 entries (out of 203) at the ID+consonni call in Sondika.

What happens when you utilize Kelp as photo material and tell the stories of sea farmers?

During my residency stay near Busan at OpenSpace Bae, I researched and explored the narrative and artistic possibilities of Kelp, the traditional condiment that this south-eastern region of Korea is famous for.

Artist interning at Kelp manufactory near Busan.

I was fortunate to witness the harvest season of several Kelp farms on the rugged, cold-water coast of Gijang District and found a sea-side Kelp master who accepted me as apprentice. While learning some things about handling and drying Kelp, I looked deeper into coastal food farming and Kelp as sculptural material.

Project report: Growing Radishes with 30 Families
The zine Create The Situation (CTS) by Jennifer Delos Reyes and Kerri-Lynn Reeves invited me to create an issue in the Radishes for Adoption that I realized in spring 2009. The publication illustrates on 8 pages my motivations and the outcome of this urban food growing initiative.

Exhibition report: Towards a Culture of Peace
In late August 2008, a group of international photographers explored visual languages of peace that are neither antitodes of war, nor sugar-sweet utopia. Markuz Wernli Saito looks at how artists expand from inner peace, scrutinize meaning in conflict, seek ways of provoking peace, or touch on empathy and oneness. No matter what creative strategy is taken, peace is created only in relationship.

badatsports: Episode 136, Ampersand International
Brian Anders and Marc Deblanc talk at Ampersand gallery in San Francisco with Lori Gordon, Hope Hilton, Markuz Wernli Saito and Bruno Mauro about Lying to Curators and strange Effects of Silence.

CASAzine issue 4: Drawing the Line (between art and activism)
In the most recent issue I am discussing with curators Milena Placentile and Monika Vykoukal the public action series At Your Service where we look closer at activist implications and combined efforts towards social transformation.

ASPECT The Chronicle of New Media Art, Vol. 10: Rural Educator and environmental journalist Deborah Mantle didn't shy from getting up early and wet feet. She joined me to a City Canal Tour and realized a commented video-feature for this DVD magazine. Read the experience report on wilderness in the urban.

D I A L O G · I N · C O M M O N

Brett Bloom [Temporay Services] reflects on the Service Paradigm in art: "It is the social spaces that artists produce. This can produce a sociological analysis if we are talking of art as providing a service."

Jane Trowell [Platform London] talks about artful collaboration and public learning: "Basically it's about making a subject dynamic, which before was made accessible to a very specific audience through restricted language."

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