Concept and Text: Uli Aigner
Video and editing: Michal Kosakowski
Photo: Tom McCallieGermany 2021, 6 min 29 sec, HD, color© 2021 | Uli Aigner

10 porcelain vessels - item 6174 to item 6183 from ONE MILLION - provide a quick insight into the circumstances of their existence. Thanks to QR codes in the porcelain, the archaeological search for traces of these 10 objects will be a short one.

The relationship between ANALOG and DIGITAL has not been the only great challenge for us contemporaries since the corona pandemic.

We are born, we reproduce and we find death. An analog timeline, maybe 80-90 years long, to which we are all subject. In contrast, our knowledge is hybrid and deregulated. It contains chaotic traces of information of mankind that, according to the latest research, is around 260,000 years old.

The 4th industrial revolution of our era, which has reached all areas of our lives since the late 1980s, does not follow the analog logic of physical existence: overwritten - our lives and our actions will become like this through digitization.

I am writing 10 letters to 10 people for each of whom I have thrown a coded vessel:

A nature photographer and an artist in New York City, a female manager in México DF, a female glassblower from St. Petersburg, a philosopher and a female filmmaker in Vienna, a friend from Simbach, the best female sculptor in Berlin, a radical composer in Munich and a female world-traveled survivor - these are to whom the ten ONE MILLION hybrids are dedicated.

Each of the 10 porcelain objects is marked by a dark blue QR code and thus provides information about the reason for its existence, which, in addition to the practical use of a porcelain vessel, is also and above all a communicative act.Uli Aigner, Berlin September 2021

Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

Funded by the Federal Association of Artists of the Fine Arts

Funded by the Neustart Kultur funding program