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Franz John - Listening to the Hops Grow

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Franz John engages in new and old media, which he uses to investigate the boundaries between human and machinic possibilities of perception and representation in relation to natural phenomena. In his works, he combines intensive research and scientific analysis with vivid and often touchable and usable installations in public space. Often he deals with site-specific art projects that resonate with the historical, geological or climatic characteristics of a region.

During a scholarship in Friedrichshafen, Germany, last year, Franz John continued working on his project “Color as Resource”. For this project, the artist produced pigment solar cells from plants that are typical for the region. He uses these so-called Graetzel Cells as energy sources for his sound and light installations. For this purpose, he has, for the first time, produced such pigment solar cells from hops, an old regional crop. In the meantime, he has expanded his artistic-scientific sensorium – not least inspired by the sudden silence of the last months in the COVID-19 pandemic – by adding a sound component that lent his research activity something of a meditative dimension. Since then he has been listening closely to the hops, one of the fastest growing plants besides bamboo (up to 30 cm per day in summer).

text by Clemens Kruemmel

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from The Aesthetics of Biodiversity, released June 8, 2021

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