Bawag Contemporary, Vienna

January 25, 2012, 8:00 pm

Franz Josefs Kai 3, 1010 Vienna

with:
Gabu Heindl (Architect, GABU Heindl Architecture)
Martin Guttmann (Artist)
Michael Obrist (Architect, Feld72)
Axel Stockburger (Artist)

Discussion moderated by: Max Kintisch

Contemporary architecture is marked by the proliferation of sublime landmark buildings, of icons serially produced by a few gifted individuals that more often than not remain indifferent to the local context in which their products are embedded in. What Maria Kaika calls autistic architecture is a practice of thinking and planning the urban that demonstrates a “pathological self-absorption and preoccupation with the self to the exclusion of the outside world”‘. In the world city, the sublime ghettos in the sky of Nouvel, Liebeskind and the likes coexist with concentrated pockets of urban poverty build on the sediments of old and ultimately undesirable infrastructures. The icons of this new architecture give up on the possibility to “reclaim, remake or re-impose meaning” for the city, only to leave behind an accumulating “sediment” of old, worn-out junk spaces on its margins each time the tide goes in and out.

Participants: Carola Dertnig, Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio, Diedrich Diederichsen, Simonetta Ferfoglia, Simone Forti, Patricia Grzonka, Ugo Guarino, Nina Herlitschka, Tom Holert, Carrie Lambert Beatty, Anita Moser, Gina Pane, Heinrich Pichler, Johannes Porsch, Nicole Sabella, Johanna Schaffer, Janine Maria Schneider, Stefanie Seibold, Axel Stockburger, Tanja Widmann, Maria Ziegelböck

Opening | 24.11.2011, 7.00 p.m.
Exhibition | 25.11.2011 – 31.12.2011
Venue | xhibit, exhibition rooms of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna

An exhibition as part of an interdisciplinary research project supported by the WWTF in the context of the Art(s)&Sciences Call 2009.
Opening hours: Tue-Sun 10 am – 6 pm
Closed on the 24. and 25.12.2011, open to the public on the 26.12.2011

You sometimes need a label that does not necessarily provide an instrument for locating anything but may be used like a screwdriver to open something within an institution. (Simonetta Ferfoglia, gangart)

The exhibition Troubling Research. Performing Knowledge in the Arts presents results of investigations, discussions, and other processes that have taken place at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the context of the interdisciplinary research project of the same name supported by the WWTF. The artists and theorists participating in the project deal with the institutional desire for modes of cooperation between art and science, putting the new disciplinary formation that presently establishes itself under the name of “artistic research” or “art-based research” at art universities under pressure in argumentatively aesthetic terms.

Sylvanas Transformer, 2011, single channel HD video. length: 17 min., color, sound, Edition of 5/+1, courtesy of the artist.

White Transformer, 2011, single channel HD video. length: 7:15 min., color, sound, Edition of 5/+1, courtesy of the artist.

Red Transformer, 2011, single channel HD video. length: 8 min., color, sound, Edition of 5/+1, courtesy of the artist.

Ork Warrior, 2011, single channel HD video. length: 3 min., color, sound, Edition of 5/+1, courtesy of the artist.

Cos I am , 2011, single channel HD video. length: 6:45 min., color, sound, Edition of 5/+1, courtesy of the artist.

Turner Contemporary
Rendezvous
Margate
Kent CT9 1HG

17 September 2011 – 8 January 2012

Inspired by Margate, a seaside town associated throughout history with youth experience, Nothing in the World But Youth encompasses the excitement, energy and pulsating creativity of the young, bringing together over 200 works by 94 artists in an examination of youth. The exhibition reflects and examines the complex picture of teenage lives and the differing views society has of its young people since the end of the nineteenth century. It includes works by internationally and nationally acclaimed artists, including Henry Moore, Peter Blake, Sarah Lucas, Andy Warhol, Mark Leckey, Jim Lambie and David Hockney.

These will be exhibited alongside early works by JMW Turner, who visited Margate regularly during his own adolescence.

The exhibition will take four main themes as a starting point to consider society’s ambivalent views of its own young people, whilst celebrating teenagers’ vibrant culture and the important role they play in society: Place, Space and Territory; Groups and Individuals; Rebellion and Responsibility; and Boys, Girls, Sexuality and Growing Up.

Reflecting the vibrancy of youth culture, it will also include objects such as a jacket customised by David Bowie as a teenager, iconic footwear, and a collection of magazines, posters, and other memorabilia from the post-punk period from the Mott Collection. There will also be a special selection of films about adolescence available for visitors to watch at their leisure.

“Nothing in the World But Youth is an exciting and vibrant exhibition containing a huge range of artworks. Although it focuses on what it is to be young, the theme is universal and the content is sure to spark memories for all our visitors, young or old. The theme of youth is also particularly relevant to Margate, and the town’s own connection with youth culture”

Victoria Pomery, Director Turner Contemporary.

Artists: Henry Moore, Peter Blake, Sarah Lucas, Andy Warhol, Jim Lambie, Ross Sinclair, Corrine Day, Francesca Woodman, Santiago Mostyn, Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, Paula Rego, Sadie Benning, OZ Magazine, Martin Boyce, David Rayson, Mark Quinn, Peter Blake, Mark Leckey, Michelle Sank, August Sander, Humphrey Spender, Ron Mueck, Axel Stockburger, David Hockney, David Haines a.o.

Among other projects he has initiated the independent art television channel TIV in Vienna in 1998 and collaborated on international projects with the London based media art group D-Fuse (2000-2004). At present he works as scientific staff member at the Department for Visual Arts and Digital Media / Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

email: axels[at]sil.at

Drawing a Hypothesis is an exciting reader on the ontology of forms of visualizations and on the development of the diagrammatic view and its use in contemporary art, science and theory. In an intense process of exchange with artists and scientists, Nikolaus Gansterer reveals drawing as a media of research enabling the emergence of new narratives and ideas by tracing the speculative potential of diagrams. Based on a discursive analysis of found figures with the artists’ own diagrammatic maps and models, the invited authors create unique correlations between thinking and drawing. Due to its ability to mediate between perception and reflection, drawing proves to be one of the most basic instruments of scientific and artistic practice, and plays an essential role in the production and communication of knowledge. The book is a rich compendium of figures of thought, which moves from scientific representation through artistic interpretation and vice versa.

Index of Figures. – Drawing a Hypothesis (Preface), Nikolaus Gansterer. – I Must Be Seeing Things, Clemens Krümmel. – A line with variable direction, which traces no contour, and delimits no form, Susanne Leeb. – Grapheus Was Here, Anthony Auerbach. – Asynchronous Connections, Kirsten Matheus. – Figures of Thoughts, Gerhard Dirmoser. – Collection of Figures of Thoughts, Gerhard Dirmoser. – The Line of Thought, Hanneke Grootenboer. – Dances of Space, Marc Boeckler, – Distancing the If and Then, Emma Cocker. – Processing the Routes of Thoughts, Kerstin Bartels. – The Hand, the Creatures & The Singing Garden, Moira Roth. – Drawing Interest / Recording Vitality, Karin Harasser. – Hypotheses non Fingo or When Symbols Fail, Andreas Schinner, – Three Elements, Axel Stockburger. – A Fragmentary Collection of Emotions and Orientations, graphically recorded, Christian Reder. – Radical Cartographies, Philippe Rekazewicz. – Measuring the World, Katharina Bösch, Christine Haupt-Stummer, Andreas Kristof. – Subjective Objectivities, Jörg Piringer. – The Afterthought of Drawing: Six Hypotheses, Jane Tormey. – Nonself compatibility in Plants – The Floral-Animal continuity, Monika Bakke. – On the importance of scientific research in relation to the humanities, Walter Seidl. – Strong Evidence for telon-priming Cell Layers in the mammalian olfactory bulb, Nardo, M. L.; Adam, A.; Brandlmayr, P.; Fisher B. F. – Expected Anomalies caused by increased Radiation Activity, Christina Stadlbauer. – On Pluto 86 Winter lasts 92 Years, Ralo Mayer. – The Unthought Known, Felix de Mendelssohn. – wiry fantasy or the electronic line is also a handwriting and itself effects the overcoming of its system, which it draws, constructs and leaves: into the poetical eye, too, which has dreamed its original state of pure perception and launches itself into the dialogue as source, Ferdinand Schmatz. – Appendix: Subindex. Index of Names. Personalia. Notices.

Spellbound Chinese

Spellbound Japanese

SPELLBOUND (2009) Videoinstallation, 2 HD Projections, 16:9 Video, Audio, 20 min., Edition of 5+1

The Video Boys in the Hood consists of interviews with players of the controversial computer game Grand Theft Auto.The players deliver their perspective of the narrative space of the game by giving detailed descriptions of locations, movements and actions in the game. These subjective accounts of a shared space lead to a diffusion of the borders between ‘real’ and ‘virtual’.

Boys in The Hood, 2005, DVD Video, 60 minutes, Edition of 5, courtesy of the artist.

The video Goldfarmer addresses contemporary economical and cultural transformations by interviewing a so called goldfarmer, the player of a popular online game who generates an income by playing. The player has been rendered anonymous by digitally adding the avatar he embodies in the game environment over his face. The phenomenon of goldfarming, that has become a viable form of work, specifically in Asian countries, is used as a model to engage with the transformation of the border between work and play that seems to be characterised by the current dominance of economical paradigms over all other areas of life.

GOLDFARMER (2008) Video, DVD PAL, 16:9, 15 min., Edition of 5+1, courtesy of the artist and Jim & Mary Barr Collection

The piece PSX-Warriors GRAN TURISMO is a portrait of a young woman playing a popular racing game. The whole gameplay is visible on the ”Inter-face” of the player. Her reactions, facial expressions and movements  translate the qualities of the virtual gamespace. Every action in the digital environment of the game is followed by a little movement of her body. These traces of movement are stronger with people who are new to the immersive spaces of computer- games. Players that are used to  games do not move much, they have learnt to constrain their movement to their fingertips  on the gamepad. The human side of the interface is used as a screen for the abstract space produced by the game.

PSX Warriors Gran Turismo, 2001, DVD Video, 3 minutes, Edition of 5, courtesy of the artist and Jim & Mary Barr Collection

On Wednesday 22.12.2010 – 15h – 17h at shanstudio, Beijing

address: Dongcheng distrect, Anding men nei, N29 hua yuan hutong dong xiang,
Sweetness Home appt 3-2danyuan, room 302. Bejing.CHINA.   map
please contact by email shan.av.studio@gmail.com to tell us if you want to join this event.
We also will set up a live streaming for this freetalk. Please go online at shanavlab on Dec.22th (Wednesday) at 3pm on time and follow us for chatting.