Jan Michael Hanni and Denise Kratzer’s Klangcode, 2007, subtitled as ‘The word as sound poetry’ is an outstanding student project shown in the Campus 2.0 exhibition in the Kunstuniversitat, Linz on the occasion of Ars Electronica: Goodbye Privacy festival 2007. The creators describe Klangcode as ‘ dividing language into phonemes that are transformed into sound poetry by physical movement’. in a text accompanying the work they explain that ‘language consists of mixtures of tones and sounds such that a single word consists of many sounds’ (neoanalog).
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Hyungkoo Lee was one of several treats available in the Giardini pavilions in this year’s Venice Biennale. Especially impressive was his video Helmet WR, 2007. In this video, made for the Biennale, Lee walks through the maze of streets that is Venice dressed in what appears to be a crime scene investigation costume and a very alien-appearing Plexiglas helmet.
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Over the weekend I heard an account of a recent paper written by Claire Bishop in which she argues that socially oriented ‘collaborationist’ art may be problematic due to a lack of aesthetic standards, which is to say it is so politically correct that it cannot be judged ‘bad’ (O’Connor). I find this notion interesting with regard to Documenta 12 (more…)
Ray Lee’s Siren is a remarkable work that possesses sculptural, performative, and musical dimensions. (more…)
Se mi sei vicino (if you are close to me) was one of the more impressive interactive works in the Ars Electronica, Goodbye Privacy exhibition in the OK Centrum Gallery, Lintz. Cillari received honourable mention for her work, in my opinion she deserved more. (more…)
Ashok Sukumaran was winner of the Ars Electronica 2007 Golden Nica prize in the category of interactive art. A sample of his work was installed in the OK Centrum gallery of contemporary art in Linz, Austria. (more…)
Wim Delvoye received an award for excellence under Prix Ars Electronica’s new category ‘Hybrid Art’. This is for his remarkable Cloaca project (the term ‘cloaca’ is derived from the Australian artist Mike Parr’s use of the term which refers to the ultimate product of the human digestive system). Whereas Parr uses the concept of cloaca for expressionistic purposes Delvoye uses it to create a radically extended metaphor for capitalist consumer culture. (more…)
Winner of an award for excellence in the Digital Musics category at the 2007 Ars Electronica Aaron Thall´s Grist Drumcorps gave a powerful, complex and energetic performance in the Brucknerhaus concert hall, Linz, Austria on the evening of 10 September. (SEE VIDEO). (more…)
Nairy Baghramian’s contribution to the Munster Sculpture Project was a little disappointing. (more…)
This page contains short comments on highlights from Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (until 4 November 2007). (more…)
Kijong Zin’s piece at Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves — On Air, 2006 – is demented in the best possible sense of the word. It is a masterpiece of absurdism. At first sight it is not especially prepossessing, simply consist of three television monitors depicting what appear to be slightly weird versions of American television such as CNN and the Discovery Channel. The wonder of the work begins when one notices a little door to the side of the monitors. (more…)
The real attraction of the Readymade, grunge, randomness and such steadfast contemporary art standbys is that they allegedly bring art into life. But across the decades, since Duchamp invented the Readymade in 1913 little has happened — until now. (more…)
Zoe Leonard was certainly one of the very few highlights of documents 12. We were given an enormous room filled ceiling to floor with a mass of small scale photographs arranged into minimalist grids. One could easily wax lyrical about these images, after all they are very good photographs; however, in the light of the fact that Documenta 12 is putatively about ideas rather than about visuality (Saltz), one might take a different tack. (more…)
Jan Michael Hanni and Denise Kratzer’s Klangcode, 2007, subtitled as ‘The word as sound poetry’ is an outstanding student project shown in the Campus 2.0 exhibition in the Kunstuniversitat, Linz on the occasion of Ars Electronica: Goodbye Privacy festival 2007. The creators describe Klangcode as ‘ dividing language into phonemes that are transformed into sound poetry by physical movement’. in a text accompanying the work they explain that ‘language consists of mixtures of tones and sounds such that a single word consists of many sounds’ (neoanalog).
