JONA ZWIESSLER

BACKGROUND

Jona works at the intersection of Public Scenography, Performance and Sound. He is particularly interested in the renegotiation of knowledge and objectivity affecting our space, time, and thus social relations. In his practice, Jona tries to co-design public situations that produce a moment of not-knowing, or disorientation which can result in renegotiation and might enable participation. For him that has become a way of giving a space to people and listening to other ways of knowing.

Since 2022 Jona has collaborated with Futurefarmers Collective and realized among others projects for Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary, Gluon Art Research and Studio Lungomare.

FUTUREFARMERS COLLECTIVE

Futurefarmers is an international group of diverse practitioners that was founded by Amy Franceschini in San Francisco in 1995 and has been active in Ghent, Belgium, since 2003. It comprises artists, architects, computer programmers, farmers, writers and anthropologists who collaborate in varying constellations. Pursuing a process-oriented approach, Futurefarmers weave materials and communities into situations, thereby cultivating public life at specific sites.

JONA’S DO PICHO PROJECT

Jona describes his project as follows: “While staying at Do Picho, I am working on a Project called “This Cheese Is Not an Island” that started a year now and has been made possible through Concomitentes, a cultural association that invited Futurefarmers to Galicia. In the Project we investigate together with a local activist group about how a more than human protest could look like, how cheese reflects the landscape and why we should celebrate collective care publicly over and over again.

When I grow up…  
“Apart from the collective project, I am laying out a Zine that collects some photos I took in Galicia and in the small village I come from, in the south of Germany. Somewhen in my teens I lost hope in that place because it seemed too narrow and conservative. Being at Do Picho and with the people of this community I somehow rediscovered what a rural place can also be, full of weird, magical, loving encounters. It gave me hope and I started seeing my village with another lens, maybe the one I had as a child when I was still strawling through the fields and listened carefully, letting myself be enchanted. Overlaying these places photographically I want to understand more about lost hopes and how to regain them.”