
‘PERMANENT EXPEDITION’
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Susanna Flock, Washer (Andreas Kurz), Enrique Tomás, Sun Obwegeser, Doris Prlic, Jakob Dietrich, ekw 14,90 (Marlies Stöger, Andre Tschinder, Christoph Rath), Leonhard Müllner
STAGE 1 / Production-workshop 15 – 23 July, 2014
STAGE 2 / Exhibition 23 July – 31 August, 2014
- Produced by: nomadenetappe / Kunst und Theorie
- ‘LinzEXPOrt’ program, Linz Kultur, City of Linz, Austria
- With the support of: Bundeskanzleramt Österreich, Section Art (Austria) / Municipal Department of Arts and Culture, Linz (Austria) / Regional Department of Arts and Culture, Upper Austria / Austrian Cultural Forum Madrid
- With the cooperation of: Sinsalaudio / Escoitar.org
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‘PERMANENT EXPEDITION’ is an artist-in-residence project conceived under the program ‘LinzEXPOrt’ of the city of Linz (Austria), and produced by nomadenetappe / Kunst und Theorie (a non-profit-organization for the presentation of young art founded in 2009 in Linz). In this project participate ten artists —working in the fields of sound art, radio, installation, video and conceptual art— who will produce site-specific works during a residence period in Vigo, Spain. The project will take place at MARCO’S Auditorium and it will be developed in two stages. The artists involved will transform this place into a production room, which will be finally opened to the public under the format of a collective exhibition, thus understanding the Auditorium as a dynamic space containing the whole creative process.
The name of the project refers to its experimental nature, similar to a scientific research mission. As the term suggests, ‘Permanent Expedition’ concerns the idea of being in constant exploration, thinking the daily life and the excursions to Vigo’s surroundings as a laboratory and as experimentation.
ABOUT nomadenetappe - Kunst und Theorie
Nomadenetappe - Kunst und Theorie is a Kunstverein - a non-profit-organization for the presentation of young art, located in Linz/Upper Austria and was founded in 2009. The association runs the noncommercial gallery and exhibition space „memphis“ and offers young artists a place of exchange and the opportunity to develop their own artistic practice in an international and transdisciplinary context. Beside the „in-house“ events which mainly consists of solo and group exhibitions, concerts, performances, lectures and artist talks, also cooperations in form of exchange projects with international partners take an important role in the annual program.
Summary
WORKS EXHIBITED
MidiMarschMusik-Kapelle, 2006-2014
Jakob Dietrich, Andreas Kurz, Leon Müllner, Sun Li Lian Obwegeser, Doris Prlić, Marlies Stöger, Enrique Tomás, André Tschinder
The internationally based midi marching band premiered their unordinary and charming performance for the first time at the Ars Electronica Festival 2006. Consisting of 9 to 12 musicians in classical instrumentation, the band performs their stunning choreography equipped with laptop mounts in the form of hawker trays and bullhorn speaker helmets powered by rechargeable batteries. Each member's laptop represents an individual midi brass instrument, playing back midi notes. The spatial intervention at MARCO displays a possible setting of a rehearsal, which has just been left.
To Cast a Shadow, 2014
ekw14,90
Photos, text
The Film Noir shows a world whose inhabitants are never at home. Even though they live there, they are at the same time strangers in it. Therefore the Film Noir shows a world, whose inhabitants wander around in their own lives like strangers. At the same time this world appears confusingly similar to the world of the viewers, or at least familiar to them. The Film-Noir-city is a cosmos, where the strangeness is the cornerstone of its architecture. Every crisis happens due to the alienation of its protagonists and is individual and psychological. Fateful crimes, mishaps and misfortunes, which the author ascribes to his characters, arise from it. Such characters of a Film Noir are often complex and almost always broken.
[Source: www.der-film-noir.de ]
Can One Mark This Sky , 2012-2014
Susanna Flock
15 Prints
The process-oriented work Can One Mark This Sky deals with the naming of high-pressure and low-pressure areas and the sending of an encrypted message via a mass media system.
The
For this project, pressure formations were baptized systematically by browsing through name archives for semantic material that is approved by the
Beyond Coordinates, 2014
Leonhard Müllner
Print on paper, stamps, envelopes
The work Beyond Coordinates brings four cases of lost lands and lost expeditions into relation by making use of the one travelling media itself, the letter.
Various nautical errors and hoaxes created possible territory, which existed on maps for hundreds of years. Sometimes they would sink or they turned out to be simple Fata Morganas. Financial and human efforts were necessary to disprove these phantom islands. The last one which disappeared from maps all over the world was
The letters will be sent away when the exhibition is finished.
With the objective of discovering the last few undetected spots of the discovered world, some explorers themselves vanished. Only vague signs of their disappearance are left and evoke innumerable speculations. After they got lost they became heroes. States which they worked for, printed stamps with their explorer’s countenance. In this way stamps, the currency of travelling words and goods, become vehicles of failed expeditions.
Going Calypso, 2014
Sun Li Lian Obwegeser, Jakob Dietrich
Black & white photographic print, 240mm x 300mm
“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth, but man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.” Jacques Cousteau
Inspired by a portrait of the French explorer, photographer and inventor Jacques Cousteau and his family, Going Calypso shows the results of Obwegeser’s and Dietrich’s examination of two main notions of expeditions in general: freedom and uncertainty. Being inexperienced in utilizing familiar processes diverted from its intended use in an underwater environment, they embarked themselves on an undertaking containing various questionable parameters. The “Permament Expedition - Crew” was asked to join a photo shoot for a group portrait underwater.
A selfish shellfish sample, 2014
Sun Li Lian Obwegeser
Mixed Media Installation
Slides, audio loop
The slides depict sequences of 16mm educational film about a mussel.
In addition to the visual, a soundtrack was composed for the shell.
Bajo Tierra, 2014
Doris Prlić
Sound installation, photo
During her stay in the city, Doris Prlić researched closed underground territory in
Bouzas 20.07.2014 – 23:32h.
Enrique Tomás
Phonograph D.I.Y. and video
The capture of an instant in Vigo’s district Bouzas is created through the analogical and digital error of two different audio and video recording devices — a phonograph and a digital camera — with more than 100 years of difference between their invention dates.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
thus & hence (Jakob Dietrich/Kai Maier-Rothe)
http://thusandhence.com
http://bunostik.org
Jakob Dietrich and Kai Maier-Rothe work together with sound through conceptual means. Their leitmotiv is the continous questioning of the politic dimension of sound. Their compositions can be often interpreted as a critic to the social human relations that many times are articulated in our societies with the use of sound. For them, an acoustic space is not a mere resonant volume, but a place with big loads of ideology.
ekw 14,90 (Marlies Stöger, Andre Tschinder, Moke Klengel, Christopg Rath)
http://ekw1490.mur.at
The artist group ekw14,90, founded in 2000 by Moke Klengel, Christoph Rath, Marlies Stöger and André Tschinder in
Susanna Flock
http://susannaflock.net
Susanna Flock (1988,
Andreas Kurz aka Washer
http://andreaskurz.net
Under the aka WASHER we find the German sound artist, based in
Leonhard Müllner
http://kunst.creative.arte.tv/de/gallery/users/180/leonhard-muellner
Leonhard Müllner has studied between
Sun Li Lian Obwegeser
http://oe1.orf.at/artikel/352063
Since 2007 Sun Li Lian Obwegeser is studying Experimental Art in
Doris Prlić
http://dorisdisaster.servus.at
http://www.feedbackanddisaster.net
Doris Prlić works as an artist and curator, focusing her activity on the use of sound, usually with very small and subtile elements int he public space. She studied fine art and art studies in
Enrique Tomás
http://ultranoise.es/blog
Enrique Tomás (1981) is a Spanish sound artist living in