Globally, in human habitats we all share a routine: personal waste management. We produce waste daily and the scale at which we do that tends to get bigger and bigger. A citizen has the task to bring their waste to the right waste collection point and this is usually where her responsibility ends. Out of sight and out of mind.
Traces of our presence, waste traces, are providing us with information about (human) activity since the estimated presence of life on earth. Rubbish, whether from an ancient rubbish heap or a contemporary landfill, is the carrier of a wide variety of information. Various conclusions about society and the urban organism can be drawn from this information. In and around urban contexts, in compressed space, traces of waste can be more visible than elsewhere. Landfills change whole landscapes, creating mountains of waste. The project “Waste Trace” aims to observe and visualize movements of our garbage and explore possible impacts on future urban life within the context of waste. Gaining more knowledge and data in order to understand the usually hidden dynamics can produce a wider discussion and understanding of challenges and problems.  How to pave the way to a "resilient waste mobility"?

This Artwork is realized by Susi Gutsche and co-commissioned by Sony with the support of Vittorio Loreto, Alessandro Londei, Bernardo Monechi, Matteo Bruno and the STARTS program of the European Union. The Fellowship is co-commissioned by Sony within the framework of "Repairing The Present". Repairing The Present is co-funded by the STARTS program of the European Union.

Schwammige Strukturen. Necropolitics as totalitarian strategy, 2019 - ongoing
The project consists of a series of digital photographs taken from various objects and fimo replicas that are accompanied with a text (audible, sound). The photo series focuses on the field of tension of artificial environments versus “natural” environments. What is real? What is naturally growing, what is artificially made?

Material Schwein
Casted Gelatine Sculptures January 2020
Material Schwein is putting the focus on the material gelatine that is produced mainly out of pork “waste” from industrial slaugh­terhouses. Gelatine is found in a wide range of products, especial­ly in sweets. This project aims to reflect on the reduction of pigs to materials of human consumption. By investigating the material gelatine, a new hybrid pig breed (lidl1) emerges. It can be observed in different stages of development.

Invasive Gardening
Short Film/Fictional Documentary 8.40min + Photo Series 2021
The project "Invasive Gardening" focuses on the question of (bio)diversity of (living) creatures and their coexistence in contemporary allotment gardens. The film observes and explores the various creatures and their habitat “Kleingarten”. The short film should shake the image of allotment gardens as either “Gardens of Eden” or rather “horti conclusi”. Are there subversive agents to be found? The access of society to green space, a garden, and horticulture in the urban context is highly unequal. The restrictions brought by the current health crisis have made the notion of “private green” and its relation to societal privilege and monetary power structures an even more pressing topic.

Bio?diversity (in progress)
material collection, epoxy preparation, short videos

#ofthedead
Illustrated book
The book project #ofthedead is an observation on death announcements in social media by Dimitrije Andrijevic, Eugenia Kozlo­va and Susi Gutsche.
It examines forms of mourning in social media with a focus on death announcements that are posted on the social network services Instagram and Facebook. Most of the posts under exploration are published by the accounts belonging to dead persons and from accounts related to the deceased. The book is recreating the images of the posts with abstract sketches and lists related hashtags of every entry. The project opens a discussion about immortality, privacy af­ter death, digital heritage and the property and future of mem­ory.

Abstand
Video installation 24h
by Dimitrije Andrijevic, Susi Gutsche, Charlotte Heller
An Abstand is defined from a specific point to another point. Abstand is a major aspect of daily living. There is an Abstand that you keep in public space, an Abstand to interact with people. Especially within a pandem­ic we are all keeping a greater Abstand than we are used to. As we see it, Abstand is the absence of (the social) touch. We wanted to reflect on the current times of self-isolation in the form of an experimental film by making the Abstand between us as big as possible. For this purpose, each of us built their own isolation capsules individually – a room within a room, to live there for 24 hours. Every single movement is captured by our laptop cameras.