CONGLOMERATE OPERATIONS: CONLGOMERATE! emerged
from my research on the Aderklaaer Conglomerate since 2022, a geological formation under the territory hosting the capital of Austria. In my research I conducted interviews with geologists,
musical theorists, artists, fresh water ecologists and psychologists to finally write down the outcome in a 16 chapters paper. Each of the chapters deals with a specific aspect of this
underground body from distinct relevant standpoints such as the geological, economical, social, colonial, futurological, hungarofuturist amongst others.
All 16 chapters were translated into short videos and accompanied by music from a jam session with James Habo and Martin Eichler in the framework of
CONGLOMERATE VENTURES, a small research venture/workshop get-away Carmen Hines, Dunia Sahri and Camille Belmin and me organised and hosted in Trautmannsdorf an der Leitha.
What you see here is the 5 interactive devices I created to resurface the conglomerate story.
4 of them need human touch to activate the 5th device, which holds the video essays.
Each of the interactions with human touch has a discrete signal that triggers a specific video. Only the touch of 4 different persons has the
potential to trigger all 16 videos. As such, CONGLOMERATE!, the first Conglomerate Operation, depends on the agency of the visitors: The more people interact with it simultaneously, the more it
shows; The more people dig, the closer we get to the story, the muddier we get.
Special thanks to my advisors: Christian Höller, Anne Faucheret and Eva Maria Stadler.
My interview partners:
Kristina Pia Hofer, Stefan Hoyer, Monika Hoelzel, Clemens Porpaczy, Christina Gruber, Thomas Raab.
©Jorit Aust
screenplay and performance, presented at Specuative Spekulum and Convocation II, Vienna
with Barnabás Bácsi, Mel Sasha Berger, Martin Gius, Melanie Haberl, Daniel Hüttler, Saara Hukka and Janina Weißengruber
Danubian Bank & STÖRLING, community currency presented at Backyard Economy exhibition
The group exhibition Backyard Economy, which is the result of a seminar at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, presents contemporary artistic explorations of the forms of social reproduction, which are fundamental for the economy of global capitalism but remain largely invisible within it.
The title quotes two super-8-films by Martha Rosler from 1974, Backyard Economy I and Backyard Economy II (Diane Germaine mowing), in which the artist draws an intimate connection between reproductive and artistic labor. The exhibition takes such early Marxist-feminist perspectives and practices of institutional critique as its point of departure and relates them to contemporary conditions. The works on display deal with motifs of the peripheral and of exclusion, thereby exploring dynamics that arise between forms of representation, the engagement within the conditions of (aesthetic) production, and the effects of institutionalization. They address interactions of valorization and devaluation, exploitation and profit both inside and outside the art field. By questioning binary constructions, gender-specific codifications, and colonial imprints at work in reproductive labor, value production, and property relations, the artistic works devote themselves to tackling quite persistent clichés.
Invited by Jenni Tischer (Art and Knowledge Transfer) and Stefanie Kitzberger (Collection and Archive), sponsored by the Danubian Bank
EPIC OF SPROCKET
In Temporary Friends, Disposable Lovers : A Digital Séance
Within the boundless expanse of recent years, a grand schism unfolded before the eyes of the world, parting the ethereal realm from corporeal reality. The pandemic's relentless grip arrested our mortal frames, rendering them ever more vulnerable and bereft of purpose in today's disquieting milieu. As political hostility surged and ecological desolation loomed, our bodies found themselves relegated to seclusion, stowed away like precious relics. Yet, defying the languid pace of introspection to imagine a better future, the human spirit, plagued by restless anxiety, yearned to transcend by all means. Eagerly, we uploaded ourselves unto the digital tapestry, embracing the perpetual fragmented and evanescent
cyber domain as the nexus for future human communion.
Such intricate dynamics bespeak our contemporary tapestry, an unveiling of existence's ephemeral nature, where fleeting forms coalesce only to dissolve with equal swiftness. Within this mosaic, transitory experiences reign supreme, marked by ephemeral dopamine surges elicited by ever-shortening online contents that we are all forced to consume, fragmented memories, amnesia, and evanescent echoes of the immediate past, slipping through our grasp like ethereal tendrils of smoke.
In this shaky and uncertain new epoch, the present world tantalizingly oscillates between proximity and distance, as our identities, driven by an insatiable yearning, transmogrify with the velocity of a thousand metamorphoses, from caterpillars to butterflies and back again, over and over. Gathering our dreams and hopes, both of yore and present, we surrender them to the consuming maw of a cosmic abyss. From its stygian depths, emerges a negative mold, bearing the inverted silhouette of our shared humanity, ready to be endlessly recasted, akin to the infinity room's enigmatic allure. Within this ever-repeating world, reality incessantly births itself anew, descending ever deeper into self-infatuation, inexorably
embracing the specter of extinction. Our static corporeal shells find solace in simulations of cherished memories and sensory imprints, distilled from the collective remembrances of temporary friends and disposable lovers, suffusing our immobilized forms with a mirage of life's finest echoes.
░ Opening: 5/11(Sat.) 18:00
░ Exhibition Date: 5/11(Sat.)-5/25(Sat.). Please register to visit https://forms.gle/eXurMDqB1rwBrsKc9
░ Exhibition Venue: Massform (Floor 10, No. 43-6, Zhongxing Rd., Xizhi District, Xinbei, Taiwan)
░ Artists: Chen-Yu Chen, Shiau-Peng Chen, I-Hsuen Chen, Melmel Chen, Li-Yun Chien, Jessica Hang, Jai-Yn Lin, Jia-Jhen Syu, Yun-Jieh Wu, Deng-Lin Yang, Bruno Aeberli、Jaimie An、Cristobal Cea、Nook Chuenkitti、Gail Dodge、Nadia Haji Omar、Kyle Hittmeier、Daniel Hüttler、Joel Kuennen、Bayne Peterson、Sivaan Walker (continuously updating)
░ Curator: Hao Ni,Shell Curatorial
░ Partnership: Massform
░ Sponsor: National Culture and Arts Foundation
Danubian Bank & STÖRLING, community currency
presented at
- Backyard Economy (exhibition)
- Abstraction and Economy (symposium)
- Alienze (performative lecture)
theatre piece with Kai Trausengger, Janina Weißengru- ber, Saara Hukka, Teuta Jonuzi, Julian Seiffert, Pille-Riin Jaik, Pawel Szostak, Winona Hudec, Anna Schall, Klaus Rabeder and Daniel Hüttler
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CHIMORONA, AT
processual RPG with Luize Nezberte, Julian Meierhofer, Martin Eichler, Janina Weißengruber, Tina Enöckl, Daniel Hüttler Sofia Altamirano, Sebastian Mittl
AND AFTER THE FIRE CAME A GENTLE WHISPER: SHOW ME YOUR FETISH
WITH LÖRINC BORSOS AT ANOTHER GALLERY , NEW YORK
featured @ TZVTNIK
HERMES SERIES IN COLLABORATION WITH LÖRINC BORSOS AT TRAFO GALLERIA , BUDAPEST
AMISH RAVE part of (CCCC Brno at House of Arts Brno)
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