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Wake Words
(October 1 – November 20, 2021)
at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna

In collaboration with Olena Newkryta and Marlies Poeschl (The Golden Pixel Cooperative)

The departure point for the exhibition is the term “voice recognition”: It refers, on the one hand, to technological systems for language assistance and detection, which are silently creeping into many parts of our everyday lives. On the other, the second part of the formulation – recognition – indicates that this phenomenon already assumes a certain concept of a voice that is to be recognised. What is the basis of this (re)cognition? Which voices are heard, and which not? And isn’t there a potential advantage in remaining incognito?

Wake Words primarily presents moving image works and is thematically structured around the following four terms that obstruct the “correct” functioning of voice recognition systems: noise, echo, machine error, and improvisation. In this way, The Golden Pixel Cooperative activates visitors’ auditory perception. The open sound heard in the exhibition, designed by composer Rojin Sharafi, is based on the audio tracks of the works on display. The accompanying audio publication collects artistic-scientific contributions in the form of audio pieces.

With: Iris Blauensteiner & Rojin Sharafi, Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Eva Giolo, Nathalie Koger, Saadia Mirza, Joana Moll, Olena Newkryta & Nana Thurner, Pedro Oliveira, Bárbara Palomino Ruiz, Marlies Pöschl, Miae Son, Katharina Swoboda, Lisa Truttmann & Behrouz Rae, Diana Vidrascu, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Katarina Zdjelar

Audio Publication with contributions by: AM Kanngieser & Lucreccia Quintanilla, Constanze Ruhm, Jessica Feldman, Eleni Ikoniadou & Viki Steiri

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Election Day
(September 08 – October 17, 2020)
at das weisse haus, Vienna

It seems as if democracy has always been in crisis. Today, voting seems performative; a false dilemma in which citizens select the lesser of all evils. Protesters in the streets yell “They do not represent us!” and surveys asking if politicians “can be trusted” yield results which are never surprising. What should we do when democracy becomes “a mutilated tool devoid of efficacy and credibility”? We might turn to art in hopes of catching a glimpse of radical strategies, whose critical disposition, symbolic gestures, political resistance, illogical logics and embracement of the collective and the everyday could urge us to construct a new set of alternatives within the democratic system. And to continue working towards a more democratic democracy, a fundamental democracy.

The group exhibition Election Day hopes to foster the imagination of what is possible in a world dominated by fixed structures and inflexible forms of political representation. Coinciding with the elections of the city of Vienna in October 2020, the exhibition is composed of archival materials from political parties and candidates that were initiated by artists in moments of political change throughout history. Election Day will indeed offer alternatives: political options conceived through subversive artistic approaches that are not just involved in forming an object or a surface but in intervening in the electoral system. Blurring reality with fiction, renaming, occupying a symbol, allowing clogs in the system or voicing silenced issues. Opening up possibilities of action.

With: Åbäke, Joseph Beuys, Tania Bruguera, Bruce Conner, Lydia Eccles, Joan Jett Blakk, Terike Haapoja & Laura Gustafsson, Janez Janša & Janez Janša & Janez Janša, Vincent Trasov

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Camera Lucida
(February 20 – March 30, 2019)
at das weisse haus, Vienna

Published in 1980, Camera Lucida is undeniably one of the most relevant books about the photographic medium. This exhibition with the same title showcased a series of artworks arranged in a specific temporal order. It was through this choreographed succession of works and their consequently impermanence on site that Roland Barthes’ book was visually and poetically revisited. Shaped in the form of an audiovisual essayistic exhibition, the show Camera Lucida aimed to function as a new way of reading Barthes’ text, a reading that could be described as deconstructed, fractured, or distracted, similarly addressing our contemporary modes of apprehending visual and textual information.

This experimental exhibition presented reproductions and documentation of artworks by Ignasi Aballí, Helena Almeida, William Anastasi, Claudia Angelmaier, Maria Anwander, Fayçal Baghriche, Jeremy Deller, Alicia Eggert, Claire Fontaine, Ana Frechilla, Cristina Garrido, Irene Grau, Tae-Bum Ha, Kiluanji Kia Henda, David Horvitz, Pierre Huyghe, William E. Jones, Kurt Kren, Ben Long, Lucia Nimcová, Tatzu Nishi, Nils Nova, Mike Parr, Sreshta Rit Premnath, Pilvi Takala, Penelope Umbrico, et al.

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Current signs
(February 21 – March 28, 2018)
at das weisse haus, Vienna

Current signs is a project to which contemporary artists were invited to express their actual concerns and demands in form of protest banners. What must we demand or protest against? What needs to be expressed publicly? What statements need to be taken to the streets? The resultant 16 protest banners designs, conceived by a wide range of artists, give a visual answer to these poignant questions. Printed in editions of 50, these banners were on view at das weisse haus from the 20th of February until the 28th of March, where visitors could take them for free as long as they are available.

This project is born from the need to address concerns related to our current political landscapes and the raise (and acceptance) of far-right, xenophobic and racist ideologies. As always, but maybe now more than ever, we need to make visible our demands, to share with each other our ideas, our worries and our needs. Current signs aims to encourage this exercise of the right to demonstrate and protest.

Current signs has been inspired by similar projects in which protest banners –some of the clearest manifestations of the visual language of political action– were the main protagonists, such as the event In Protest (2012) at the BAMPFA (USA) or artworks like The Blank Placard Dance (1967) by Anna Halprin.

With Pablo Chiereghin, Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, Johannes Gierlinger, Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid, Siggi Hofer, Sekretariat für Geister, Archivpolitiken und Lücken (SKGAL), Klub Zwei, Milan Mijalkovic, Ryts Monet, monochrom, Ivette Mrova Zub, Yoshinori Niwa, UBERMORGEN, Flora Watzal, Christina Werner, WochenKlausur.

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Unsolicited exhibition
(July 16 – October 29, 2017)
Online exhibition on e-mail

Unsolicited exhibition was an exhibition through e-mail that showcased advertisement messages from artists’ businesses to recipients that had not granted verifiable permission for this to occur. All artworks/businesses displayed at Unsolicited exhibition explicitly labeled their audiences as potential consumers, used corporate culture mechanisms and were involved in the provision of goods and services. From conventional restaurants to speculative companies, from traditional yard sales to futuristic enterprises, all the projects appeared in the inbox of more than 1000 unaware visitors from July 16 – October 29, 2017.

Exhibited projects in order of appearance: After Art Services (by Les Levine), Soussan Ltd (by Sylvain Soussan), Prada Marfa (by Elmgreen and Dragset), Die Botschaft (by Milan Mijalkovic), Money-back Products (by Matthieu Laurette), Ananatural Production (by Ana Prvacki), Monumental Garage Sale (by Martha Rosler), The Store (by Claes Oldenburg), Mejor Vida Corp. (by Minerva Cuevas), Bliz-aard Ball Sale (by David Hammons), FOOD (by Gordon Matta-Clark, Caroline Goodden, Laurie Anderson, Tina Girouard, Suzanne Harris, Jene Highstein, Bernard Kirschenbaum and Richard Landry), SEGURI$IMO (by Grupo de Arte Callejero), MISSION ETERNITY (by etoy.CORPORATION), Jennifer Lyn Morone Inc (by Jennifer Lyn Morone), Komar and Melamid Inc (by Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid), KHOLE (by Greg Fong, Sean Monahan, Emily Segal, Chris Sherron, and Dena Yago).

Download the exhibition catalog here: http://unsolicited.website/Unsolicited_exhibition-Catalogue.pdf

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The Artist Talk Fest II
(October 30, 2017)
at Espacio Odeón, Bogota

In collaboration with Ana María Montenegro Jaramillo.

The Artist Talk Fest II is a 6-hour-long event that presented talks from a wide variety of contemporary artists. These talks provided an insight into the mental processes and ideas of each of these artists, producing an encounter between their artistic expression and the wider public through a first hand experience.

Exhibited talks in The Artist Talk Fest II: Mariana Castillo Deball, Patricia Esquivias, Esther Ferrer, Dora García, GAC (Grupo de Arte Callejero), Pierre Leguillon, Jose Alejandro Restrepo, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

The first version of The Artist Talk Fest happened on May 29, 2016 in San Francisco at the R/SF gallery. A second version took place at Espacio Odeón in Bogota on October 30, 2017. Now The Artist Talk Fest it can be viewed everyday at: http://theartisttalkfest.net/

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Language to be looked @ Things to be read
(April 3 – September 25, 2016)
Online exhibition on e-mail

Language to be looked @ Things to be read was an exhibition of a wide variety of artists mailed language and/or things. This exhibition took place within the visitors’ e-mail inbox, to which a piece of an artist’ correspondence was sent every Sunday from the 3rd of April to the 25th of September 2016. The artworks shown were formerly exchanged via the postal service and now inhabit online art institutional archives in digital form. Thanks to their digitized format, this wide variety of correspondence pieces, that range from personal letters to pieces of mail art, were curated to form a poetic and eternal network that revisits seemingly old forms of exchange through current electronic mail services.

The conceptual framework to which this exhibition belongs navigates territories of network experimentation as well as the material realms of language and communication. Inspired by the deregulation of the art object during the 1960s and artistic investigations of “language to be looked at and/or things to be read” −as Robert Smithson described− this exhibition similarly responds to the commodification and capitalization of art. By disregarding official art distribution systems conveyed within the space of museums and galleries, this exhibition solely carried out through e-mail transforms the traditional showing of art into a personal exchange or gift to the visitor. If it is true that mail art anticipated the virtual communities founded on the Internet, there can be no better way to explore and exhibit mailed art pieces than using our contemporary eternal (online) network.

Furthermore, the display of the pieces (one per email, once per week) neither followed traditional temporal or thematic continuities. The artworks from Language to be looked @ Things to be read functioned as a suspense poem, a format invented in 1961 by Robert Filliou through which subscribers would receive one poem piece at a time by mail. For this exhibition, each e-mail was titled with one word or sentence related to the artwork contained within it. Consequently, as the exhibition unfolded, the subject line of the e-mail became a suspense poem that could only be read in its completeness when the exhibition came to an end and the subject line contained all artwork’s titles.

Exhibited artists: Robert Filliou, Joseph Beuys, Ray Johnson, Sol LeWitt, Félix González Torres, Anna Banana, On Kawara, Betty Danon, Hanne Darboven, Lawrence Weiner, Frank Lloyd Wright, Adrian Piper, Johan Van Geluwe, J. H. Kocman, Don Celender, N.E. Thing Co., Jiří Valoch, Christine Kozlov, Jarosław Kozłowski, Keith Haring, Ewa Partum, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Allen Ruppersberg, Monty Cantsin, Nancy Spero, Timm Ulrichs.

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The Artist Talk Fest
(May 29, 2016)
at R/SF Gallery, San Francisco

In collaboration with Ana María Montenegro Jaramillo.

The Artist Talk Fest was a 12 hour event consisting of the screening of 16 lectures from a wide variety of contemporary artists. These talks provided an insight into the mental processes and ideas of each of these artists, producing an encounter between their artistic expression and the wider public through a first hand experience.

Exhibited talks in The Artist Talk Fest: Aram Bartholl, Jérôme Bel, Christian Bök and Kenneth Goldsmith, Andrés Burbano, David Claerbout, Minerva Cuevas, Etoy, Andrea Fraser, Olia Lialina, Mark Leckey, Fay Nicolson, Adrián Villar Rojas, Barbara Visser, Fred Wilson

The first version of The Artist Talk Fest happened on May 29, 2016 in San Francisco at the R/SF gallery. A second version took place at Espacio Odeón in Bogota on October 30, 2017. Now The Artist Talk Fest it can be viewed everyday at: http://theartisttalkfest.net/

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The Reader
(May 2015 – June 2016)
Online exhibition on website

In collaboration with Joseph del Pesco.

For the The Reader, artist/writers were asked to imagine what’s happening on the page of a book, or in the mind of the women reading it, in an historical painting. Dozens of these paintings from museum collections around the world have been identified for the project. Audio tracks, the readers, can be heard by placing the mouse over a painting.

Contributing artists: Christine Sun Kim, Marcelline Delbecq, Adriana Lara, Malak Helmy, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

Visit the exhibition here: http://thereader.kadist.org

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Desktop Show II
(October 4, 2015)
Online exhibition on Skype

Desktop Show II was a second version of the Desktop Show that was presented on October 4th, 2015 as part of the exhibition “Public Works: Artists’ Interventions 1970s–Now” at Mills College (Oakland). This time, this exhibition of net.artworks through Skype’s desktop-sharing feature lasted around 30 minutes was screened live to a wide audience in the Lecture Hall of Mills College’s Fine Arts department.

Exhibited artists in Desktop Show II: 0100101110101101.org, Anthony Antonellis, Constant Dullaart, Ursula Endlicher, Elisa Giardina Papa, Jan Robert Leegte, Olia Lialina, Silvio Lorusso, Emily Martinez, Joana Moll, Niko Princen, Ryder Ripps, Evan Roth, Rafaël Rozendaal, Mario Santamaria, Daniel Schwarz, Thomson & Craighead, Jürgen Trautwein, Penelope Umbrico, Charlotte Webb.

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Unshown
(May 25, 2015)
Noroof Gallery, San Francisco

In collaboration with Ana María Montenegro Jaramillo

This exhibition was a codifier that aimed to enable the production of unrealized projects, an exhibition that quoted Krzysztof Pomian: “If B is invisible, a visible A can only be accepted as its representative if there exists utterance which speak to it”.

After an open call, we selected six unrealized projects by artists from outside of the United States. Through the artists’ proposals and interviews, we produced six videos in which an actor/actress explained each one of the unrealized projects. The artists chose a specific person for the video and worked with us in the script that the actor/actress would perform in front of the camera. Each video was then displayed on a monitor, on a pedestal, in the gallery, therefore giving each unrealized piece a physical form. The specific looping and edition of videos permitted to show one video at a time.

Exhibited artists: Elkin Calderón, Nicolas Gaillardon, Hyun-Jung, Andrés Martínez, Laura Meza Orozco and Danilo Volpato.

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Desktop Show
(November 18 – 20, 2014)
Online exhibition on Skype

Desktop Show was an exhibition of net.art works carried out through Skype’s sharing desktop option on November 18-20, 2014. The exhibition took around 20 minutes for each visitor, one visitor at a time.

Exhibited artists in Desktop Show: 0100101110101101.org, Kim Asendorf, Eva Beierheimer and Miriam Laussegger, Christophe Bruno, Paolo Cirio, Reynald Drouhin, Oliver Laric, Jan Robert Leegte, Steve or Steven Read, Alexei Shulgin, Eugenio Tisselli, Leonard van Munster

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