WORKS

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


If Eye Were Anding, AT

 

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

 

 

 


TURANIUM, HUN

 

performance at TRAFO, Budapest

with
Zsolt Miklosvölgyi and Mario Z. Nemez

 


Danubian Bank & STÖRLING, community currency presented at Backyard Economy exhibition

 

 

 


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

 


 

land•is•land - fugeland, AT

 

Project with Emma Hontebeyrie & Paula Bracker

 

 


 

Amish ----> Rave 

 

exhibited at Was fehlt, exhibition curated by MAximilian ehner at Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg


 


Danubian Bank & STÖRLING, community currency

 

presented at

- Backyard Economy (exhibition)

 

- Abstraction and Economy (symposium)

 

- Alienze (performative lecture)

 


BOBBY without ORGANS, AT

 

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

´++theater

 


I'm MEMBER, FR

 

artistic contribution as ANOTHER NAME for Start Up end Down, Paris

 


CHIMORONA, AT

 

processual RPG with Luize Nezberte, Julian Meierhofer, Martin Eichler, Janina Weißengruber, Tina Enöckl, Daniel Hüttler Sofia Altamirano, Sebastian Mittl

 

 


SIGMA´s TICK, HUN

SOLO-show at Lollipop Factory, Budapest

(collaboration w/ Tina Enöckl)

 

 



THE GREAT FLOOD, HUN

PERFORMANCE w/ TECHNOLOGIE UND DAS UNHEIMLICHE at TRAFO, Budapest

 

 VIDEO

 

 



ADOAPT + MAX-Deamon, AT

DIPLOMA EXHIBITION at the
University of Applied Arts Vienna

 




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)



(F)AKT AT KLUBOVNA, BRNO