Merani Schilcher
after hours
Expanding Spaces — Summer 2020
autoantibody.1
Five Lines of Code (Short-term Project) — Winter 2019
autoantibody.2
Poetics of Repetition (Course) — Winter 2019
autoantibody.3 – Destruction of Self
Free Projects
Doom-Monger
Media Minimalism — Winter 2019
Life and Death of a Memory
Minimal Hacks for Big Statements (Short-term Project) — Winter 2019
Make Me A Weapon – Destruction of Context
Free Projects
Mephista – Destruction of Other
Free Projects
Nondescript Transitions
Constraints (Short-term Project) — Winter 2018
unclutter
Unstable Objects (Short-term Project) — Summer 2020
Union = Power
Carte Blanche — Winter 2018
Unknown Territories – Searching for Islands
Navigation, Orientation, Information — Summer 2019
Merani Schilcher — autoantibody.3 – Destruction of Self
Free Projects
(sich) wie ein Frosch aufblasen
puffing up like a frog
The final stool in the series of self-destructive stools is based on Aesop's fable "The Frog and the Ox" where a frog wanted to top an ox's size and started puffing up its own body – until his body couldn't take anymore and he burst. It approaches the topic of human's tendency to boast.
Self-destructive behavior is almost never intentional. In emotionally tumultuous situations where we resort to such actions, we leave behind all reason and buy into thinking that a self-destructive action benefits us. We consider it a short relief from turbulence we fell into.
An autoantibody works in a similar fashion. Like a bug in one's system, it is a type of antibody that is produced by an organism’s immune system to attack its own healthy tissue.
In a state of self-destruction, the balance sought is also a crisis of imbalance.
