Transmediale 08: the exhibition
30.1. - 3.2. 2008, daily 10 - 21 hrs
5.2. - 24.2. 2008, daily except Mondays 10-20 hrs
House of World Cultures
CONSPIRE…, the transmediale exhibition, focuses on the strategic notion of the con-spiratorial act. In poetic reference to the term’s Latin roots, conspirare, the exhibition deconstructs the nature of conspiracy into a silent and cosmic act of ‘collective breathing’ suggesting a sharply targeted, yet anonymous and intimate form of creative collaboration.
The works and projects chosen approach the perceptive borders of our daily lives with coded instructions, exploratory maps and speculative allusions which provoke alternative views about the way in which we understand information and what we believe to be universal truths.
Thematic constructs around the notions of conspiratorial truths, bio-organic systems and twisted realities arrange the art works into seven contextualising clusters explored within the exhibition. The exhibition, featuring many new works specially conceived for transmediale, will be open through February 24, 2008.
The exhibition’s guest curator, Natasa Petresin-Bachelez, was born in Ljubljana 1976. She lives and works as an independent curator and critic in Paris. In 2003 she has been assistant curator for In den Schluchten des Balkan at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel (Curator René Block), as well as in 2001 at the 49th Venice Biennial for the Slovenian pavilion (Curator Aurora Fonda). She has co-curated a number of exhibitions and events, among them Location Zero=Infinite: Creative Communities and Locative Media (Nova Gorica 2004), and Territories. Identities. Nets. Slovene Art 1995–2005 (Ljubljana 2005). In 2004 she organised together with Gregor Podnar a conference on cultural politics and the art market in Central and Eastern Europe.
In the following you will find the artists’ list, arranged in the exhibition’s thematic clusters.
Twisted Realities
Einar Thorsteinn, Non-Visual Object, Multidimensional Object, is, 2008
SilentCell Network, Looping Hooman Sharifi, Video, si, 2004
Janez Jansa, Janez Jansa, Janez Jansa, Signature, Event, Context. Performance, si, 2008
Olga Kisseleva, CrossWorlds, Interactive installation, ru/fr, 2007
Lisa Parks, Roaming, Installation, us, 2008
Visionary Lives, Fictionalised Selves and Fictionalising Oneself
Július Koller, UFO- Galeria Ganek 1,2,3, Set of 3 drawings, sk, 1984/Demonstrative Cultural
Situation 1 & 2(U.F.O), Diptyc, sk, 1989/Manifesto, sk, 1996
Dimitrije Basicevic Mangelos, Manifestos, Mixed Media, hr, 1977-78
Artur Zmijewski, Lisa, Video, pl, 2003
Ilana Halperin, Towards Heilprin Land, Video Projection and Reading Room, us, 2007
Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, Wonder Beirut, Mixed Media, lb, 1997-2007
Utopian Politics and Disonant Poetics
YKON, M8 - Summit of Micronations, Installation, fi, 2006
Julieta Aranda, Standing Room, Sound Sculpture, mx, 2006
Matt O’dell, New Worship, Sculpture, uk, 2007
Hassan Khan, The Hidden Location, Video Installation, eg, 2004
Bureau d’Etudes, End of Secrecy, Map Generator, fr, 2008
Marko Peljhan, Velimir Khlebnikov, LADOMIR AB 7th SURFACE, Object, si/ru, 2008
Bio-Organic Systems
Ursula Berlot, Lumina, Light Installation, si, 2007/Pulsation, Video Projection, si, 2007
Norimichi Hirakawa, a plaything for the great observer at rest, Installation, jp, 2007
Knowbotic Research, Peter Sandbichler, be prepared ! tiger!, Installation, at/de, 2006
Kimsooja, To Breathe / Respirare, Video and Sound Installation, kr, 2006
Haunted Past - Projected Future
Société Réaliste, Transitioners: Le Producteur, Trend Collection, hu/fr, 2008
Lene Berg, The Man in the Background, Video, no, 2006
Laurent Montaron, Sans Titre, Sound Installation, fr, 2006/What Remains is Future, Video, fr,
2006
Alternative Science / Science vs Fiction
Alice Miceli, Chernobyl Project - the invisible stain, Work in progress, Mixed Media, br, 2007
Christoph Keller, Chemtrails, Mixed Media, de, 2006
Alban Hajdinaj, Diskovery, Video, al, 2007
Tobias Putrih, Quasi Random, Sculpture, si, 2007/Science Vs. Fiction, Digital Print (I-XI), si,
2002 – 2003
Conspiratory Truths
UBERMORGEN.COM (at), Paolo Cirio (it), Alessandro Ludovico (it), Amazon Noir - The Big Book
Crime, Web Project, at/it, 2006
Alain Declercq, Mike, Video, fr, 2005
Trevor Paglen, Five Classified Aircraft, 5 Fabric Patches, us, 2007/Five Classified Squadrons,
5 Fabric Patches, us, 2007
Egle Budvytyte, Secta, Video, lt, 2006
Alice Miceli, Chernobyl Project - the invisible stain, Work in progress, Mixed Media, br, 2007
Société Réaliste, Transitioners: Le Producteur, Political Trend Collection, hu/fr, 2008
Bureau d’Etudes, End of Secrecy, Map Generator, fr, 2008
Matt O’dell, New Worship, Sculpture, uk, 2007
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