I am Walter Götsch, a Finnish visual multidisciplinary artist working within the artistic practice I have developed, Mythographic Geospatial Art. My work explores the intersections of myths, human activity, and natural environments. It contributes to contemporary environmental art, the search for human identity, and the connection to nature.
I create M.A.R.P.S. (Mobile Art, Research and Production System) works in natural settings ( Usually the more rural the better ), documenting them with GPS coordinates and analog photography. My practice also includes Zone Probing (ZP), an artistic research method rooted in psychogeography, searching for human made and natural anomalies, and Additive Enchantment (Æ), a sculptural approach in which discarded materials are given new meaning. Drawing inspiration from Land Art, Situationist thought, and the environments I traverse, I create works that engage in a dialogue with history, materials, and environment.
My education includes an MA at the Dirty Art Department of Sandberg Instituut in the Netherlands (2019); BA in Fashion and Clothing design from the Aalto University in Finland(2016), with an exchange program at Musashino Art University in Japan(2014).
My work is to
Prepare, empower, and direct.
They are form, feeling, and attention.
Hopeful-post-corona design futures with system-scale problems and subjective user experiences, my art is looking beyond the settlement.
Not self-reliant driven as romantic possibilities to enforce chauvinism, but sanguine, communal, feral, narratives. A coalition of practices between
“ rewilding “ city-states without trying to put all the technological genies back into the bottle. With or without the VR glasses.
Next to a river, beneath a mountain. My works are tools.
It is the
forest smelling
rural observing
mountain-dwelling
world building
mind-bending
storytelling.
IPCC panels + associative modeling + 230 million years of animal biochemistry = human identity that prioritizes mobility and migrations as the unexceptional state. Let’s do it as our mothers did it.
My tools are guiding, speculating, and questioning aspects of daily life.
The rural is where both my work and the future, are happening. Along with the mountains, the sea, the garden, Standing Rock Reservation, the 4th generation nuclear reactors, and metaverse cloud platform megastructures.
Olen Walter Götsch, suomalainen monialataiteilija. Työni perustuu käytettävyyteen, kenttätutkimukseen, ja symbolismiin. Etsin tapoja olla yhteydessä ympäristöön ja historiaan, ja tämän kautta luoda tapoja ajatella tulevaisuutta.
Valmistuin Vaatetussunnittelun ja pukutaiteen Kanditaatiksi Aalto-yliopistosta 2016, ja suoritin Taiteen Maisterin tutkintoni Amsterdamissa Sandberg-insituutissa 2019.
