Tonjaschja Adler

Tonjaschja Adler – week 1 – give a GIF as a Gift
Jun 16, 2022

It all started with a misunderstanding.
I read on the InstaProfile of Sasso Residency the invitation to apply for the 2022 to the artist residency in Ticino. I thought, “Oh, how extraordinary, they’re not asking for a classic portfolio, but for a GIF”. 
On reading the invitation more carefully, I realized that my enthusiasm or a tendency to dyslexia or my affinity for misunderstandings had turned a Gift into a GIF.

Misunderstandings are usually communicative disturbances resulting from the difference between 
what is meant by a sender and what is understood by the receiver. It occurs especially in conversations between experts and non-experts when they use the same terms, which, however, have different meanings in colloquial and technical language.

For artists, this phenomenon is a gift at the right moment, which we gladly accept, and which has already turned many works in a good direction. Nevertheless, I sent a GIF (video) as a Gift along with 
a print, a transcription of a digital image into an analogue version, and an edited Still from the video “Thinner Air”.

Ink Print / 2021

Transcription in biology is the process of copying a segment of DNA into RNA. We have all read about this in the past two years in connection with newly developed vaccines against Sars-Cov-2.

Transcription in music means writing or rewriting of a piece of music, either solo or ensemble, for another instrument or other instruments than which it was originally intended.

Transcriptions, overlaps and detecting misunderstanding, forcing chance and translating it as a force into one’s own work, that suits me and corresponds to my artistic practice.    

My time in the Artist Residency began when I moved into Spirito. The name of the space, which is a room that opens into another space, located directly under the roof. In good spirit, I will spend the 
next weeks together with the artists Barbara Collé & Uta Neumann and Susanne Weackerlin here 
at Sasso Residency. 

What connection can I find between the space, called Spirito, the large blue carpet with a pattern structure that lies within it and the stay in an artist residency with a sense of social cohesion and 
mutual support?

To be continued…

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