Beth Collar TSI Prototype

Beth Collar (b. Cambridge, England, 1984) Solo projects include The Unforgiven, Sundy, London (2022), Basher Dowsing, von ammon co., Washington DC, U.S.A. (2021); SHANE, a collaboration with Elif Saydam, Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne, Germany(2021); “End Quote,” stadium, Berlin (2020); Daddy Issues, Dilston Grove, London, with Matt’s Gallery and Southwark Park Galleries (2019); Retrogression, a collaboration with Eoghan Ryan, 427 gallery, Riga, Latvia (2019); Thinking Here Of How The Words Formulate Inside My Head As I Am Just Thinking, Waldo at Mathew Gallery, New York (2018); Cloaked Output Vol 2: Spirals of Focus, Primary, Nottingham (2018); Seriously, Mark Tanner Sculpture Award, Standpoint, London (2017); and 11/50,  Fig2 at the ICA, London (2015). Recent performances have taken place at Why Words Now, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Art Hub Copenhagen (2021) CentrumCentrum, Szczecin, Poland (2020); Camden Arts Centre, London (2020). Group exhibitions include Doppel, two man show with Jesse Darling, A plus A, Venice, IT (2021), VON UTEN, two man exhibition with Shaun Motsi, Elvira, Frankfurt am Main, DE (2021), Kunstverein Kesselhaus, Bamberg, Germany (2020); Marlborough Contemporary, New York(2020); Bärenzwinger, Berlin (2019); Cell Project Space, London (2018); Kunstverein München, Munich (2017); and KW, Berlin (2016). Since 2015 Collar has been an associated artist with the charity Waterloo Uncovered. Collar’s solo show at the Westfälischer Kunstverein opened at the end of October 2023.

Mae-ling Lokko, Architectural scientist, Designer and Educator

Dr. Mae-ling Lokko is an Assistant Professor at Yale University’s School of Architecture and Yale’s Center for Ecosystems in Architecture (Yale CEA) and the founder of Willow Technologies Ltd, in Accra, Ghana. As an architectural scientist, designer and educator from Ghana and the Philippines, her work focuses on the design and integration of just, biogenic material practices across the agricultural, architectural and textile sectors. Lokko was the Director for the Building Sciences Program and Assistant Professor at Rensselaer’s School of Architecture from 2018-2021. Lokko’s work has been exhibited globally, most recently at Stedelijk Museum, Netherlands; Museum of the Future, Dubai; Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Belgium; Somerset House, London and Triennale Milano, Italy. Her recent research has been funded by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) SOM Foundation, Luma Foundation, the British Council, MIT’s Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative, and NYSERDA’s NEXUS Clean Energy Accelerator Program.

The Hearth / The Kiln / The Heart of the Wood is a proposal for an interleaving, reciprocal project consisting primarily of a large-capacity outdoor wood-fired kiln and a sequence of harvestable ‘tiny’ woodlands. Underlying all aspects of the project is a sustainable and sustaining community. The project would seek to grow a community of kiln users who would learn ‘on the job’ and be able to teach others as time went on. The project would also require a wood store, to be replenished after every burn, covered work area and accommodation and facilities for overnight firing duties. This proposal seeks to reclaim the full production methods and humanise the firing process, connecting artists with their materials and processes in a more embodied way, and empowering them to run their own burns. By cultivating a space for collaboration and making, the proposal goes beyond the bricks of the kiln itself, fostering lasting connections that can have a sustained and positive impact on the artist scene in Berlin as well as providing a precedent for other similar projects elsewhere in Germany and beyond.

Beth says, “I’m very excited about what I’ll find out during the residency, and I’m very grateful to the sustainable institution and to E-WERK Luckenwalde for giving me this opportunity to build something that could be sustainable and regenerative in all senses of the words! In the project I am seeking to make a stronger connection between art making, our actual world and a spiritual world. My project seeks to build community, re-discover lost ways of making and to honour old gods and demons”