Exhibition and Publication. The curatorial collective Artist Project Group interrogates phenomena of capitalism through curatorial and artistic methods, in an attempt to build platforms for resilient aesthetic and artistic practices. In our project for curated_by with Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman we continue to investigate the capitalist overproduction of meaning, including the recuperation of crisis phenomena into the market, and ask „What Can Artists Do Now?”
Artist Project Group (Bernhard Garnicnig, Lukas Heistinger, Andrea Steves)
Exhibition at Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia. The exhibition is thought from the transversal work of the multidisciplinary artist Ernesto de Sousa, in a dialogue with works that promote new readings about his legacy and its political and cultural dimensions of artists from generations and nationalities such as Melanie Bonajo, Rita Sobral Campos, Simon Dybbroe Møller and Supergood.
Installation at MAGAZIN Vienna for Coded Cultures Festival. The artists recorded a fairly standard situation in a recording studio: a vocalist performing in the live room while the digital audio workstation operator sits in the control room pushing buttons, checking levels, et cetera. The vocalist is trying to imitate the sound of listening into a seashell only using experimental vocal techniques. Bored by the ongoing attempt to record all possible facets of the sound, the operator drifts away watching videos online. The sound carries him to exotic beaches and then away through the spectrum of related videos and screensavers nurturing his escapist fantasies. Meanwhile, the vocal performer records one impression after the other, until he’s exhausted and out of breath. The installation shows the recording situation on a monitor in a silent video. The sound recordings are composed to overlay each other, and played back through modified microphones, mounted in an assemblage with two large seashells.