Gesten des spektulativen Geflechts
Gruppenausstellung at Salzamt Linz
Dekonstrukt X Dr. Michael Manfé.
Geheimnisvolle, geheimnishütende Höhlenanlage mit irrationalem Aufbau? Labyrinth ohne Zweck? Verdichtung ohne Zweck? Mitnichten.
Gänge in krummen Linien angelegt, Kammern, höhlenartig, eng, voller Sorgfalt: gespeicherte Erhabenheit. Du kriechst in den Bauch, auf dem Bauch: hineinzwängen, herauszwängen, durchzwängen. Die Räume versagen vielen Körpern den Zutritt und werden … was? Orte der Seele, Kultstätte, Zufluchtsstätte, Pilgerort?
Wir folgen den krummen Linien, werden selbst krumm. Wir sehen die Welt in ihren Anfängen und verlangen eine Dialektik des Vielfältigen. Der Kontinent, heute, ist übersät von unzähligen geheimen Kammern. Kein Zweifel mehr an der Vielheit eines famosen Geflechts. Seine Existenz bewiesen, von Nord nach Süd von Ost nach West. Wir nomadisieren entlang der Routen, sammeln Wissen, folgen den Ideen, füllen das eigene Vakuum.
Camouflage of icons
Digital sculptures, 3D-Print, ongoing;Our consumer and entertainment world has produced some icons of contemporary pop culture. well known, loved or feared, they have entered the cultural memory of our society.
MONO.LOG.
videowork 2022, 06:15 min, 4KIn an artificial environment, the formation of a fluid body can be observed. The forms rotate as if they could constantly reinvent themselves according to purpose and use. Everything seems new to this changeable form of life - breathing and waiting, an inner reflection about one's own being and the differentiation to the human being. „How many megapixels does the human eye have?“, asks the subject and sounds through speech synthesis. This pointless as well as equally interesting question describes the ambiguity of this inner monologue - how can we imagine the emergence of an artificial consciousness, and how would such a thing respond to our inadequacies? Characters appear, adorned with pop culture -maybe these are just camouflage to adapt to modern life.
TOR
experimental video
An archaic nomad moves around with his horse through a seemingly natural environment. Some cultic rituals are performed to produce a stone-like data storage device. When the character connects with the media a look at our digital information society is released.
Synopsis / Summary
A mystical and archaic figure wanders through nature; The lonely nomad collects and processes objects to black powder; He lingeres only briefly in temporary storage sites – he is in continuous motion; The focus of his trip is the implementation and preparation of self-willed and primitive rituals; The alternating actions rest, travel and search are penetrated by micro sequences that share a moment on a engineered parallel world. The wanderer omits no effort to find the desired items and is constantly accompanied by the wind. After performing the ritual, he finally goes on a snowy hill where he finds a similar place of worship, as the one he had previously built by himself; Gray smoke rises and the nomad begins to deconstruct the primitive construction. A strange object to appears (somekind of a technical storage device), the character connects to the item and by that, an artificially-technical portal appears that has been previously indicated by the micro-sequences. It creates an abstract chaotic digital world and takes reference to our digital information society.
Background & Vilém Flusser
The video work deals with the text „aspects of nomadic life“ by Vilém Flusser. Flusser – who has not fully experienced the digital revolution and our development for ubiquitous information society – writes about a new form of nomadism: the „information nomads“. In his (hypothetical) thesis he divides human history in three new sections: It sarts with the „old Stone Age“ in which all human were hunter and gatherers – they were nomads. This era is interrupted by the „ early Stone Age“ which is heralded with the invention of agriculture. Man becomes sedentary; This period persists up in the 1980s; It ends with the invention of the World Wide Web – he calls this the „Immaterial age“. Humanity now is undergoing a major change: Although we are still remained sedentary from physical point of view – the informations now penetrate – like a rumbling storm – through our homes and we have become digital hikers. Today, Flusser’s thesis can be read as an almost prophetic message. The work „Tor“ describes the behavior of a peculiar nomadic wandering between the times and technologies. The work reflects on the contemporary use of information.
