The installation was included in the collection of the sculpture garden of the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia and is still open to the public.
Authors: Laura Linsi and Roland Reemaa
“Lummavad kohtingud” (“Enchanting Encounters”) is a collection of playful spatial etudes designed to encourage encounters between children and adults, art aficionados and dogs, earthworms and grandmothers; lead to games of hide-and-seek, decay, watching, snacking, stopping to smell the flowers, building a nest. The purpose of this space is not efficiency but the creation of possibilities for sensing the relationships between humans and non-humans, and also materials and loved ones.
Rammed earth, soil, plants, concrete factory surpluses and production waste all appear in unexpected situations to create a buzz of excitement in humans and non-humans. The goal of each of these small structures is to encourage experimentation with materials: how to get plants to grow on a rammed earth wall; what sort of irregularities in a concrete wall would draw birds to build nests there; what is the common urban space shared by insects and people; how could rain water and a clay wall get along? Through these and other questions, we look at the broader potential of construction materials, which is one of the most important topics in contemporary architecture.
Created largely in a public rammed earth workshop, “Lummavad kohtingud” is is about playing with form, and an invitation to participate in activity, discovery and interspecies adventure.
The complete album of the festival on Facebook.
Visual from the competition entry.
Opening of the festival, Ljudmilla Georgijeva, Laura Linsi, Roland Reemaa and Mae Köömnemägi. Photo: Raul Mee
Opening of the festival. Photo: Raul Mee
Opening of the festival. Photo: Raul Mee
Photo: Tõnu Tunnel
Photo: Tõnu Tunnel
Photo: Tõnu Tunnel
Photo: Tõnu Tunnel