Cikigu trttprptt (almost) everything is closed, (almost) everyone is walking in the park.
Therefore, we invite huu-huuu you to walk, read, look and listen with us in the Tiergarten. Cikigu trprtt is a collection of processes, performances, and projects by the first year MA students in Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA GD MA), together with Manuel Raeder. During these past eight weeks each participant spent time getting lost in the park, each finding a topic of interest which responded to their surroundings — their time, research, and interests resulted in nine site-specific projects which we now invite you to find.
You’re invited to use our website to help guide you in finding each project spread throughout the park.
Contributions by Alejandro Bellón Ample, Louise Borinski, Aleksandrs Breže, swchchwi schwiwhih Paula Buškevica, Björn Giesecke, Otso Peräsaari, Diandra Rebase, Katarina Sarap and Manuel Raeder
The exhibition was open from Thursday 8.4. until Sunday 11.4., 24/7. But you can still visit the places and take a nice walk in the park using this website.
Keep a distance, stay safe and see you walking by, EKA GD MA and Manuel Raeder
This device is not supported. Access to the website using a smartphone to start the guided tour. We recomend you to start from Siegessäule (Berlin).
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Dear walkers, flâneures, perambulators,
Cikigu trttprptt (almost) everything is closed, (almost) everyone is walking in the park.
Therefore, we invite huu-huuu you to walk, read, look and listen with us in the Tiergarten. Cikigu trprtt is a collection of processes, performances, and projects by the first year MA students in Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA GD MA), together with Manuel Raeder. During these past eight weeks each participant spent time getting lost in the park, each finding a topic of interest which responded to their surroundings — their time, research, and interests resulted in nine site-specific projects which we now invite you to find.
You’re invited to use our website to help guide you in finding each project spread throughout the park.
Contributions by Alejandro Bellón Ample, Louise Borinski, Aleksandrs Breže, swchchwi schwiwhih Paula Buškevica, Björn Giesecke, Otso Peräsaari, Diandra Rebase, Katarina Sarap and Manuel Raeder
How it works?
1. Destination: displays the title and the author of the work selected. Indicates the place you are going to. Press on it to display the entire worklist and select another project.
2. Direction: the image inside of the bubble rotates depending on the orientation of your phone. When that image matches with the background and the glow disappear means that the project is in that direction1.
3. Distance: indicates the distance from your position to the point in meters.
1 (left) You are not in the right direction. (right) You are in the right direction.
Geolocation and Orientation
This website uses information from the GPS and Orientation sensors of your device to guide you through the different projects. The GPS is used to calculate the distance in meters. The Orientation sensor is used to display the direction of the project.
The data from these sensors is not stored.
Please if you are using iPhone go to "Settings > Privacy > Localization > Safari > and allow localization"
Keep a distance, stay safe and see you walking by, EKA GD MA and Manuel Raeder
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It’s a limb of a tree, perch of a bird,
Björn Giesecke
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EKA GD MA Library Reader,
Otso Peräsaari
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53-61-53-65,
Paula Buškevica
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“Houseplant” Vacation,
Katarina Sarap
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Artefact,
Louise Borinski
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Everything that comes from the earth must return,
Diandra Rebase
...
BOM,
Manuel Raeder
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It’s a limb of a tree, perch of a bird,
Björn Giesecke
In 1979 Ed Ruscha is said to have placed a man-sized rock he created in the Mojave Desert, left in the midst of other rocks. Yet still to this day no one has found “Rocky II” – not even french artist Pierre Bismuth1.
On pages 204–205 of a 1934 specimen by the American Type Founders I was intrigued by a typeface I found which looked wavy, like an air blast or a limb of a tree being moved by air — it was called Vanity Initials, and was drawn in 1922 by American Art Nouveau illustrator Will H. Bradley. It was missing the letters O Q X Z and all lowercase characters, but it had five different “The’s“ to choose from. You may or may not find one of them now, somewhere around this location.
Pictures from 8.05
1 “Where is Rocky II?“ (2016), directed by Pierre Bismuth, is a documentary film about his ten-year search for the rock.
EKA GD MA library reader,
Otso Peräsaari
We have a library. The library is part of the new graphic design masters program at the Estonian Academy of Arts. We have books and publications in Tallinn and here, in Berlin. In the fall of 2020, when the library was started, it was only a small box. Our collection of books is growing quite fast. Now I can’t keep count of how many books we have. These books and publications are essentially meant to be read. These books and publications are selected and collected by us – the students and teaching staff of the EKA GD MA-program. This reader is a narrow selection of texts from the library. It is an early attempt to make our library more public than it is now.
Pictures from 8.05
53-61–53-65,
Paula Buškevica
I was thinking about 53-61 and 53-65. They are connected by numbers, by classification and surely they are connected by their lower, underground bodies, but I wondered if they ever get to interact on the surface-level.
Here are some small signs speaking of a big, short-lived, indirect touch I witnessed. A sequence, maybe a trailer for a rom-com, around a happenstance where a touch gets carried from one surface to another. From tree #53-61 to tree #53-65. Circulate around and clap your eyelids together for a zoom in.
Pictures from 8.05
“Houseplant” Vacation,
Katarina Sarap
– I’m taking my houseplant for a walk today, (05.03.2021).
When going to a park or forest, we rarely question if the plants and trees we see around us are actually meant to be there. Likewise, when we go for a walk, we leave our “house” plants in closed doors, also without questioning much if they too are meant to be there. Today, plants form an important part of our indoor environment. Ironic however, is that the “indoors” wasn’t even a thing until very recent times in the history of the Earth. And although we tend to call them “houseplants” or “indoor plants”, Nature never actually created them that way. We seem to forget that houseplants are living beings that evolved over the millennia outdoors and are not just a trendy decoration in our houses. Plants, just like us, are active and intelligent beings that are appropriate recipients of respect and care.
Pictures from 8.05
Artefact,
Louise Borinski
When walking through Tiergarten I observed all the engraved letters and numbers on the trees. Since a while I’ve been interested in the phenomenon of ‘leaving a mark‘. It is often meant as a gesture, a reminder of our existence as human beings, being able to communicate using our surroundings as a surface or canvas.
On further research I came across mesopotamian clay balls, which date back 5,500 years and have been found in the late sixties in Iran. Similar artefacts have been found around the world for example in Scotland and Turkey. These mysterious clay balls carry different engraved symbols, but it still remains unclear what they mean in prehistoric times, before even the invention of writing.
We are the very first participants of this newly opened MA program, and acknowledge this moment by collectively leaving our mark here. This clay ball bears symbols, signatures and the recorded marks of everyone in our group.
Everything that comes from the earth must return,
Diandra Rebase
Everything that comes from the earth must return, and so will this tree. I don't know about its past, but I can only assume why it ended. I was drawn to the tree out of empathy, out of necessity for companions that we lack in times like these. That hunch made me want to preserve that particular moment and my new companion. Reasons, why I would want to preserve something that is already gone are difficult to explain through words because it is often intuition that guides me. Some moments like this are not made to be understood through words, but by being present. Let my words be a guide rather than an explanation for how you must preserve this tree yourself.
24th of February 2021. As I approached this tree I thought it was a nice sitting spot — probably always free, because it doesn't resemble a bench. It was a rather warm day, the sun held me in its warm embrace while I read an essay by Virginia Woolf where she wrote about poetry: “The very reason why poetry excites one to such abandonment, such rapture, is that it celebrates some feeling that one used to have, so that one responds easily, familiarly without troubling to check the feeling, or to compare it with any that one has now.”1 I couldn't find better words to explain my reasons for wanting to bring attention to this tree.
There are many parts to preserve from this tree, but I wanted to emphasize that this tree belongs to the park. The trees here have cut off limbs, scars from people. Biologist and plant pathologist Alex Shigo introduced a concept that when tree limbs are cut away they start to heal themselves in a process he calls Tree Compartmentalization. This is where a tree begins to protect itself by either slowing or preventing the spread of disease and decay through the forming of “walls” around a wounded area 2.
The same concept of compartmentalization is used in psychology and it is described as a subconscious psychological defense mechanism used to avoid cognitive dissonance or the mental anxiety caused by a person having conflicting values, cognitions, emotions, and beliefs within themselves. I saw this as a beautiful metaphor that we share and thought that these plates, which are made of impressions from the spots that mark where the limbs were cut off, are a reminder of the walls that we build. By breaking and leaving them afterwards we might leave this spot with fewer scars of our own. This tree and the plates will be gone someday and so will we as walk back to the “parks” we call home—but before we do that, let's sit down.
Pictures from 8.05
1 "A Room of One's Own" essay by Virginia Woolf
2 “Compartmentalization of Decay in Trees” Alex L. Shigo
BOM,
Manuel Raeder
Three dimensional letters, locked with a bicycle chain to an object in public space, the letters say “BOM” (well in Portuguese) and contain food for the birds in the park.
Pictures from 8.05
Locations
It’s a limb of a tree, perch of a bird,
Björn Giesecke
...
EKA GD MA Library Reader,
Otso Peräsaari
...
53-61–53-65,
Paula Buškevica
...
“Houseplant” Vacation,
Katarina Sarap
...
Artefact,
Louise Borinski
...
Everything that comes from the earth must return,
Diandra Rebase
...
BOM,
Manuel Raeder
...
Dear walkers, flâneures, perambulators,
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Therefore, we invite you to walk, read, look and listen with us in the Tiergarten. pkto pkto ppp pkto is a collection of processes, performances, and projects by the first year MA students in Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA GD MA), together with Manuel Raeder. During these past eight weeks each participant spent time getting lost in the park, each finding a topic of interest which responded to their surroundings — their time,wuhhuiiiii whuuhhhuiii research, and interests resulted in nine site-specific projects which we now invite you to find.
You’re invited to use our website to help guide you in finding each project spread throughout the park.
Contributions by Alejandro Bellón Ample, Louise Borinski, Aleksandrs Breže, swchchwi schwiwhih Paula Buškevica, Björn Giesecke, Otso Peräsaari, Diandra Rebase, Katarina Sarap and Manuel Raeder
About this wesbite
While I was walking through Tiergarten, I saw colourful bags hanging on trees that caught my attention. They are used to provide food for the birds during winter.swchchwi schwiwhih, trttprptt Some are made out of coloured nets that contain food, others have turned the food into a robust mass, made of pipes and seeds which form different shapes like granite sculptures.
What interested me most about them is that they formed a network of points in Tiergarten that birds would visit again and again in search of food, põrrr purrrrr creating a meeting place for them in the park. This led me to consider the idea of a website whose content is only visible when accessed from a specific location. Users would be encouraged to walk around, get lost, rediscover spaces and cikigu trttprptt observe objects scattered throughout Tiergarten, turning these spaces into meeting places. I invite you to do the same using this website.
Exhibition's website and visuals by Björn Giesecke, Katarina Sarap and Alejandro Bellón Ample.
How it works?
1. Destination: displays the title and the author of the work selected. Indicates the place you are going to. Press on it to display the entire worklist and select another project.
2. Direction: the image inside of the bubble rotates depending on the orientation of your phone. When that image matches with the background and the glow disappear means that the project is in that direction1.
3. Distance: indicates the distance from your position to the point in meters.
1 (left) You are not in the right direction. (right) You are in the right direction.
Geolocation and Orientation
This website uses information from the GPS and Orientation sensors of your device to guide you through the different projects. The GPS is used to calculate the distance in meters. The Orientation sensor is used to display the direction of the project.
The data from these sensors is not stored.
Please if you are using iPhone go to "Settings > Privacy > Localization > Safari > and allow localization"