Archive · Selected older works
Four selected works from the archive show how Tobias Eder’s practice with discarded materials developed before the current research based projects. They already contain the central language of the later work: found objects, fragile figures, music, movement, social imagination, and transformation.
Before the current research on paradoxical intervention, the Peaceful Demonstrator Study tested a simpler question. Small figures appeared in public space and invited people through a QR code to share which message they would make permanently visible in the city.
The pilot showed how fragile public attention can be. Some works were removed, some were overlooked, and some were photographed or briefly cared for. This became the ground for the newer research question.
A found material reconstruction of the famous construction worker image. The figures sit in the same arrangement on a suspended beam. Bills, metal, fabric, wire, tools, and street fragments turn the reference into a scene about labour, migration, precarity, and the dream of building upward.
The close up makes the reference visible. The seated figures repeat the rhythm of the famous photograph, while the materials shift the scene into Tobias Eder’s language of found objects, fragility, and handmade social worlds.
Reference image: Lunch atop a Skyscraper, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
A flying creature built from traded and found objects. Old brushes, wood, tools, wire, tickets, cinnamon, vape parts, and small fragments form a body that looks both improvised and alive.
Small mobile sculptures made for record players. The creatures dance through the rotation of the vinyl and invite people to listen actively again, turning discarded material into movement and rhythm.
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A filigree mobile made from dried flowers, wire, and thread. In darkness it casts a night sky of small shadows, linking fragile organic remains with a cosmic, slowly moving installation space.
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