What happens when we bring the practices of artists and consultants into the same space? Will it be a dance party or a hypocritical brawl? In late October 2021 we will convene a series of workshops in hybrid form (online + in Vienna) to explore this possibility. As the influence of consultancy firms and their methods expand within spheres of the public and policy making, we ask what artists can critically adapt and appropriate from the interfaces, frameworks, tools, and practices of the consulting field.
Die AutorInnen sind das Problem. Die auf ein Subjekt zurückführbare Stimme ist lokalisier- und somit angreifbar. Dennoch bilden Personenkult, ein hoher Grad an Auffindbarkeit und die sorgsame Pflege der „Eigenmarke“ oftmals das zentrale Interessensfeld künstlerischer Verwertungsstrategien, deren offenkundige Bedingungen scheinbar im diametralen Widerspruch zur freien Verfügbarkeit von Werken künstlerischer (Wissens-)Produktion stehen. Anonym, Kollektiv, oder „just following orders“ – die Ausstellung zeigt eine Konstellation aus künstlerischen Prozessen und Methoden, welche eine identitäre Beziehung zwischen ProduzentIn und Werkbedeutung hinterfragen und aus deren Auflösung etwas machen.
TRAUMAWIEN mit Oswald Wiener, Ulrich Nausner, Mimi Cabell, Jason Huff and American Psycho. Peter Fritzenwallner, der fehlende Auftraggeber und die Ziel-Fokus-Gruppe, Constant Dullaart at suggesteddomain.com et Emilie Gervais on a Soundwwwalk. Christopher Richmond only in Available Light. With Anonymous & others
Unboxing of a sculpture that has been shipped across the globe by two artists and a logistics manager. They took turns applying industrial processes to an unknown object, without knowing what the other one is doing.
Bregenz Biennale is a site-specific intervention in the cultural landscape of a small town that finds itself set idyllically at a large alpine lake. It focusses on ephemeral forms of art in public space, avoiding commodification and industrialization but encouraging abstraction and discovery.
Albert Allgaier, Salvatore Viviano, Markus Proschek, Andreas Trobollowitsch, Andrea Lüth, Paul Landa, Philip Hanich, Peter Fritzenwallner, Albért Bernàrd, Maria Anwander und Ruben Aubrecht
Curated exhibition at Kunstraum Glockengasse, Wien. After all it’s possible that the penguin was just looking for a free WiFi hotspot beyond the comfort zone of network discourses and medium specificity.
Salvatore Viviano, Hennessy Youngman, Claude Closky, Albért Bernàrd and Jesus Papichulo
continent. is a para-academic, experimental publishing collective; a continuous effort to dynamically recompose publics, convene encounters and create open access online and offline collections of text, sound, image and media.
Installation at Artachment, Basel. Interested in modifying the causal relationships and decontextualizing the paradigmatic correlations between space, time and sound in popular electronic media, they juxtapose relics of technoid cultures with romanticist depictions of nature. Through this site-specific installation, Artachments’ idyllic waterfront space is put in a transcendental state by playing an endlessly rising hymnal synthesizer Glissando with glistering bright lights pointing out from whitened windows. The inside of the exhibition space is hidden by transparent material whilst it illuminates and places its surroundings into hyperspatial resonances with an endless loop of anticipative rave euphoria.
Artachment Basel, Juni 2011
A pioneering browser performance format. Soundwwwalks are live, browser-based performances where improvisation meets plugin sound-collage and multitab mixing, shamelessly blending the traditions of acoustic ecologies, pro-surfing, and laptop performance. The artists take the audience on a sonic detour through the World Wide Web.
Ryo Ikeshiro, Emilie Gervais, Michael Pollard, Joel Holmberg, Peter Moosgaard, Will Schrimshaw, Julian Palacz, Jamie Allen, Constant Dullaart, Ceci Moss, Jonas Lund, Jonathan Reus, Andreas Miranda, Antuong Nguyen, Christopher LG Hill
Exhibition at MAGAZIN Vienna. Ast fällt auf Tonspur explores correlations within the fields of experimental and popular music. In particular, the respective strategies of visualization, image production and paradigms of performance and sychronisation have been crafted into a audio-visual constellation of works.
A website that explored the resonating space around computers visiting the site. The website induced a controlled acoustic feedback loop which was recorded to a server.
How can musical structures allow political and social engagement? Final Essay for Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, Master Media Design & Communication: Networked Media