We were welcomed in the atelier of Uli Aigner, an artist who introduced us to her concept of producing One Million porcelain artefacts. Clearly, the idea of producing one million vessels in a lifetime is a wonderful flight of fancy – it is an attainable unattainable goal and this is exactly what it is meant to symbolize. The moulding of artifacts hand by hand as a form of resistance to technology and yet as a means of reflection – can form or substance, technology, remembrance and future co-exist?

ONE MILLION  is a project in which Uli Aigner wants to forge connections between the artifacts and the digital world. Fresh from the turning wheel they are engraved with a number and documented so that they can be traced to their owners around the world. Upon accessing her website www.eine-million.com a world map opens showing each porcelain artifact with its actual geographic location. As such the project bears testimony to the connection between production, the object and the word. By acquiring a vessel, the owner becomes immediate part of this work of art and part of a transnational and transcultural project.