Installationskunst

Tusind borgerhaikuer indeholder ganske bogstaveligt tusind haikutekster, dvs. at hver tekst består af tre dele efter stavelsesskemaet 5-7-5. Haiku er en japansk digtform, der opstod i 1600-tallet, og som i moderne tid er blevet almindeligt udbredt og nærmest ‘demokratiseret ihjel’ som en slags altædende skabelon. I Tusind borgerhaikuer fremskrives komplekse forbindelser mellem forskellige figurer, der i større eller mindre grad afspejler nutidens politisk-kulturelle virkelighedsbillede, på en sådan måde, at hver tekst i sig selv virker som en ultrakoncentreret tankebevægelse, der ud fra sine begrænsede præmisser synes at drage en åben, men alligevel specifik konklusion. Hver haiku indledes med et nummer samt et borgernavn anført med versaler, hvilket skaber følelsen af, at den efterfølgende haiku er ‘funktionelt personaliseret’, som om en algoritme havde ‘oprettet’ haikuen i en given borgers navn og dermed skabt en form for indholdsmatch. Et eksempel: “0263. Borger MØLMAND / Kromosomtrompet // Sæt sfinksen i / stinkskabet // Spænd kyskhedsbæltet”. Men hvis læseren lader blikket glide hen over bogens sider, viser det sig, at borgernavnene alle er frembragt via en ‘borgergenerator’, der arbitrært kombinerer hhv. et forled og et bagled af ‘typisk dansk’ herkomst: ABILDGREN, DAMSBALLE, ABILDBALLE osv. Der findes ingen sen-navne eller navne, der afslører ‘anden etnisk herkomst’. Åbenbart er der gennem et filter skabt et navnenes ekkokammer, en slags incestuøs boble, der synes at indramme haikuernes udsagn.

Jørgen Michaelsens Cockroach er en sangbog på engelsk. En sang det ville tage mere end fire timer at afsynge. Melodien som er komponeret af kunstneren, er meget enkel ogbringes indledningsvis som notation med becifring, sådan at der læggesop til musikalsk inklusion: fællessang. Cockroach er genereret ud fra stramme principper: Hver strofe består af firelinjer, hvis enderim udgør strukturen ABAB, sådan at linjerne har hhv. 6 og 5 stavelser. Endvidere påbegyndes hver linje med ordet “Cockroach”,der på den måde bliver en ‘overtydelig’, obskøn omdrejningsfigur. Eteksempel: “Cockroach needs reactor / Cockroach needs repair / Cockroachflaky factor / Cockroach nudist stare”. Cockroach udgør en syntetisk-strukturel ‘boreprøve’, hvor samtidens forestillingsunivers og vokabular udsættes for syntetisk sondering.Udgivet i forbindelse med udstillingen Cyber versus Buddha, Holstebro Kunstmuseum, 2023-24.

Maria Braune's (b. Berlin, 1988; lives and works in Munich and Bamberg) work revolves around a material she developed; named Migma, it consists of eight different renewable natural resources. She heats it, then casts and molds it in a process that continues for weeks. The resulting sculptures and installations sprawl throughout the space like sensuous organisms. Associations of growth and symbiosis emerge, but discontinuities and disintegration come into view as well. Braune's creative process is part of an ecosystem and thoroughly anchored in the now. Her material is a vitally alive substance to which she responds in an immediate engagement, connecting it to mythological and narrative significations and setting it in relation to her own world.Maria Braune studied woodcarving at the Fachhochschule für Bildhauerei in Berchtesgaden, Germany, in 2009-2011, then fine arts with Hermann Pitz at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, where she graduated in 2017.

What is it that makes a place distinctive? A kind of stubbornness perhaps? How can this quality be accessed through text and artistic research?These questions are explored by Tobias Becker, Elisabeth Brun, Stefanie Bürkle, Knut Ebeling, Alex Gross, Carla Hinrichs, David Karl, Lars Ostenfeld, Ulrike Ottinger, Lola Randl, Emily Strange, Zsuzsanna Toth, Katrin Wegemann, Lawson Wood and Dong Zhou, who bring their varied disciplines to bear on the matter.

Punk meets Druidry in the only trade edition of Jamie Reid's art, weaving c.180 radical art images into the structure of the pagan Wheel of the Year. The art is selected and introduced by curator Stephen Ellcock with notes on the seasonal celebrations by former Chief Druid of OBOD Philip Carr-Gomm.Time for Magic offers an entrancing overview of Jamie Reid’s incredible art, structured around the eight seasonal festivals of the Wheel of the Year (the equinoxes and solstices plus Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasadh and Samhain). Jamie observed these festivals, holding rituals at his allotment in Liverpool, and focused on this theme in his later paintings. This book features key Wheel of the Year artworks as well as famous earlier pieces, including the pre-punk, Situationist-inspired agit-prop and the work he produced for the Sex Pistols. Curator Stephen Ellcock has selected the art and in his own inimitable creative style arranged it into season-themed chapters, as well as finding images of Druidic ceremonies held by Jamie’s great-uncle, Chief Druid George Watson MacGregor Reid.Stephen Ellcock in conversation with John Marchant introduces Jamie’s life, legacy and love of making trouble; John Marchant provides captions giving deep insight in Jamie’s work; and Philip Carr-Gomm writes about the Wheel of the Year and how it can help us find a new way of being in this era of climate crisis.

How do we recognise an artist's book when it becomes an expanded practice?Is the same method of sourcing, research and display of materials used in books and collections alike?Can the space where the book is made and exhibited be considered an artist's museum?These were Francisco Varela initial questions when he saw the Blackchapel bookwork atmsdm house-studio-gallery in London. The first section of the essay explores the "expanded" characteristics of the artist's book, probing whetherthis notion is extensible to the activity of space production practiced by paula roush at her house-studio-gallery, an activity which is unique to and inseparable from her live-work method. These artistic methodologies are clarifiedwithin an interdisciplinary framework that includes the concepts of "autoethnography," "space-time sequence"and "contemporaneity."The second section explores the notion of "dispositif," with the intention to reveal the multiple structuring elementsof a live-work practice here called "immersive."The third section analyses the "museographic" process inherent to the space, a practice associated to the house-studio-gallery.This live-work-curation method is identified in relation to various museological frameworks that are exercised in that space.

Lazar Lyutakov eignet sich in seinen Werken alltägliche Produkte unserer modernen Massenkultur und einfache Industrieerzeugnisse an, um über Werte, Produktivität, Qualität und Nutzen in einer postkapitalistischen industrialisierten Welt zu reflektieren. In seiner Ausstellung 1 Million Random Numbers arrangiert er über hundert verschiedene Lavalampen auf Laborrahmen und Gestellen. Diese Publikation beinhaltet zahlreiche Ansichten der spektakulären Installation und zwei Essays: Kristian Vistrup Madsen unternimmt eine kritische Reflexion der Lavalampe als Projektionsfläche für disparate Emotionen und zeigt dabei zahlreiche Parallelen zur Ideengeschichte der Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert auf, während Stephen Zepke bei der Nutzung von Lavalampen als Zufallsgenerator in der Internetverschlüsselung ansetzt und die historischen und politischen Narrative von der Gegenkultur der 1960er Jahre zur technischen Utopie des Silikon Valley und dem damit verbundenen digitalen Kapitalismus beleuchtet.Zusätzlich liegt dem Buch ein vom Künstler gestaltetes 12-seitiges Leporello mit Entwurfszeichnungen der Werkserie 1 Million Random Numbers (Secession Frieze) bei.

Bilderbücher aus der Romantik. Von Spinoza inspirierte Bühnenbilder. Durch K.I. imaginierte Szenen aus der Frühen Neuzeit. Was die Erzählperspektive nicht kann, überträgt Alexander Kluge zuletzt auf die eigentümliche Logik der Bilder. Band 9 des Alexander Kluge-Jahrbuchs beginnt mit einer Zusammenstellung seiner jüngsten Werke, deren Bilder das Staunen über öffentliche Krisen im 21. Jahrhundert zum Ausdruck bringen. Kluges Staunen - sei es in Form von in Kriegsgebieten fotografierten Tieren, dem Aufeinanderprallen physikalischer Gegensätze auf Leinwänden und Bühnen oder der maschinellen Erzeugung des Unsichtbaren auf Bildschirmen - stellt unser Unterscheidungsvermögen immer wieder auf die Probe. Neben Dialogen mit der Malerin Katharina Grosse und dem Dichter Ben Lerner enthält der Band einen Schwerpunkt zum Thema Dekolonialismus sowie weitere wissenschaftliche Beiträge zu verwandten Themen wie z.B. Technik, Ikonoklasmus, das Politische und Theoriearbeit.Romantic picture books. Stage designs inspired by Spinoza. A.I. imagined scenes from the early modern period. What the narrative perspective cannot achieve, Alexander Kluge has recently displaced on to the peculiar logic of the images. Volume 9 of the Alexander Kluge-Jahrbuch begins with a compilation of his most recent works, the images of which express astonishment at the public crises of the 21st century. Kluge's astonishment-whether in the form of animals photographed in war zones, the clash of physical opposites on screens and stages, or machine-generated invisibility on screens-is a constant challenge to our capacity for differentiation. In addition to dialogues with painter Katharina Grosse and poet Ben Lerner, the volume includes a cluster of essays on decolonialism as well as other scholarly contributions on related topics such as technology, iconoclasm, the political and the labor of theory.

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