Armin Medosch - exhibitions

New Materialisms (Station 1)

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Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - 20:00 to Saturday, August 15, 2015 - 22:00

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Darko Fritz

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Grey Area Gallery

HICA - Highlands Institute for Contemporary Art

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Korcula, Croatia

On July 15 at 9 pm, the exhibition New Materialisms (Station 1) will be open at the gallery grey) (area – space for contemporary and media art in Korčula. The exhibition presents audiovisual installation Voyager/ non-human agent by Slovenian artistic duet Špela Petrič and Miha Turšič. At the opening the artists will perform an informance (information performance). The exhibition also presents the digitized archive of Praxis journal, which can be copied by the visitors to their USB sticks and external memory discs. Two separate presentations will be held in English: on July 18 at 9 pm Špela Petrič and Miha Turšič will hold a presentation under the title Cosmosapiens and the TerRatope, while on July 23 Armin Medosch will take us for a walk in a form of peripatetic theoretical performance.

New Materialisms (Station 1)

15 . 07 - 05 . 08 . 2015 part of the exhibition-in-progress New Materialisms artists: Petrič / Turšič . Praxis (digitized) . Armin Medosch curator: Darko Fritz program:
15 . 7. 21 h . Špela Petrič and Miha Turšič . informance (information performance)
18 . 7. 21 h . Špela Petrič and Miha Turšič: Cosmosapiens and the TerRatop . presentation
23 . 7. 22 h . Armin Medosch: What is history? Homage to Praxis, Praxis group and Korčula Summer School . theoretical performance, peripatetic symposion (The gathering between 9 and 10 pm)

New Materialisms (Station 1) is the first in the series of the three-year program carried out in cooperation of grey) (area – space for contemporary and media art from Korčula, HICA (Highlands Institute for Contemporary Art) from Scotland and Technopolitics, association for development of new discourses in art and science from Vienna. Project New Materialisms explores the nature of auto-poietic (self-organized) neotworks, whereby HICA's and grey) (area dialogues with partners' organizations, spaces and artists will be extending across Europe through 2016 and 2017. New Materialisms reflects on the historically divergent art practices and related discourses of Concrete Art and Conceptual Art, especially as identified through the 1960s, as Modern and Postmodern, and as understood through the prism of today's post-media approaches in fine arts, and the post-digital condition of contemporary life (where the digital realm is interwoven through all aspects of society). Accordingly, New Materialisms also forms a dialogue between significant artists from this earlier period, who may be seen to be first exploring the territory, and current practitioners, now operating within a post-media context. Thus New Materialisms presents a mirroring of “organismic” states, ultimately proposing aesthetic experience as a significant mechanism in the processes of formation of the physical world.

About the exhibited works and presentations Installation

Voyager/ non-human agent uses algorithm and data collected from the instruments from the spacecraft Voyager, which since 1977 has been travelling across the universe. Existing space programs focus mainly on understanding the farthest of our surroundings and on developing technological solutions, but tend to overlook the importance of implementing artistic development practices and methodologies in the form of a basic question: What is it like to be a human in space? Voyager/ Non-human Agent project investigates the possible art forms in outer space, a composite of art and science, and the processes of science culturalization.

In the frame of the presentation titled Cosmosapiens and the TerRatope Špela Petrič will talk about the influences of the post-(bio)technological interregnum on the developmental challenges of artwork about/with/from living systems. She will discuss issues of authenticity, interfaces and paradigm contestations in connection to her practice and interdisciplinary art-sci collaborations. Miha Turšič, artist, designer and KSEVT (Cultural Centre for European Space Technologies) director will present the ongoing mission of incorporating arts and humanities as constitutional human practices into space exploration programs. For this talk, he will focus on space architecture, non-human habitability and post-gravity art.

Exhibition New Materialisms (Station 1) also presents interdisciplinary works based on the legacy of Korčula Summer School and Praxis Journal. The collective of critical thinkers around the journal developed a singular trajectory of humanist Marxist and socialist analysis in the context of non-aligned Yugoslavia. Together with the affiliated Korčula summer school the journal functioned as a hub for the exchange of critical perspectives between the East and the West in the years 1963-1974. In the proceedings of the summer school and the journal participated many prominent figures of the period, a.o. Ernst Bloch, Herbert Marcuse, Henri Lefebvre, Karel Kosik, Jürgen Habermas, Lucien Goldmann. Praxis (digitized) is a collection containing the (digitized) issues of Yugoslav, international, special and pocket editions of Praxis journal. It also contains the journal Problemi and a smaller number of monographs that provide context for the understanding of the work and historic significance of the Praxis journal. Praxis (digitized) is a part of the project Public Library, accessible at http://praxis.memoryoftheworld.org. Public library is a project initiated by Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak, aimed at lobbying for the institution od public library and everybody's right to access knowledge as its fundamental principle. Public library dwells on the possibility of building distributed infrastructure for accessing digitized knowledge, constructed by amateur librarians. Within the Public Library project, the collection Praxis (digitized) was created by Ante Lešaja and Tomislav Medak.

Besides the archive Praxis (digitized), the work by Armin Medosch, Austrian artist, theoretician and lecturer, also relies on Korčula Summer School and Praxis journal legacy. On July 23 Armin Medosch will carry out the theoretical performance, peripatetic symposion titled What is History? Hommage to Praxis journal, Praxis group and Korčula Summer School that reflects on the mutuality of interrelations among these phenomena. Through series of site specific performative lectures, Armin Medosch will be exploring various notions of materialism(s), historical, dialectical and new. Medosch's performative lecture is an improvised free speech, putting forward the question: “What is History?”. The topic of the second Korčula Summer School gathering, “What is History?” will also be Armin's topic. To speak freely means to get back to the origins of philosophy, to the form of friendly conversation. There will be no script and there should also be no recording going on. One core topic will be Praxis’ specific understanding of reflection theory, according art and culture semi-autonomy in relation to the productive apparatus. Medosch will seek to place Praxis in this respect in a context with Western Marxism and its art theories, including Adorno, Marcuse, Lefebvre, Williams, Jameson and others. Presenting Praxis legacy in manifold forms is also a part of the project History of Contemporaneity, conceptualized and carried out by the informal platform kor::net (Korčula Network), and which includes historiographic research and mapping of highly relevant artistic and cultural practices that marked the promotion of contemporary trends on the island of Korčula in the 20th Ct. More at: http://korculanetwork.info/kornet/pages/praxis.

More about the project, as well artists' bio, at http://grey-area.org/exhibitions/NM1. gallery is open daily from 21 to 22 h Put Sv. Nikole bb (close to the town center) free entrance supported by zaklada Kultura Nova Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia

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Fields - patterns of social, scientific, and technological transformations

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Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 18:00 to Sunday, August 3, 2014 - 16:30

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RIXC

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Arsenals, Riga

The exhibition "Fields - patterns of social, scientific, and technological transformations" will open on May 15th at Arsenals Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art. FIELDS, jointly curated by Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Armin Medosch will show work by app. 40 artists and is part of Riga 2014, European Capital of Culture. You find the full announcement and press release below.

http://fields.rixc.lv

Welcome to Riga - the European Capital of Culture 2014!

FIELDS exhibition
Arsenals Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art

May 15 - August 3, 2014

Fields - patterns of social, scientific, and technological transformations.

The changing role of art in society is one where it does not just create a new aesthetics but gets involved in patterns of social, scientific, and technological transformations. Fields, jointly curated by Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Armin Medosch, presents an inquiry into patterns of renewal and transition. The curators asked which expanded fields of artistic practice offer new ideas for overcoming the crisis of the present and developing new models of a more sustainable and imaginative way of life.

In preparation for the Fields exhibition, a widespread survey was undertaken, that did not just look at art in the narrow sense but all kinds of creative practices that bring together new thinking, scientific knowledge, aesthetics, technologies and social practices. A year in advance, a public call was launched that was met by over 200 proposals. The curators of Fields could draw on international networks such as RIXC's Renewable Network and the European collaborations Techno-Ecologies and Soft-Control. The artist-in-residency series Fieldwork on measurement ship Eleonore, Linz 2013, aimed at creating ideas and projects for Fields. Workshops and panels at Transmediale 2013 - Berlin, Pixelache 2013 - Helsinki, and the Media Art Histories conference Renew - Riga, October 2013 were used to discuss work and taxonomies for Fields.

From the 200 proposals received through the public call, the curators have chosen 40 works from all over the world, but with a special focus on Central, Eastern and Northern Europe. Fields will be exhibited between May 15th and August 3rd 2014, at the Arsenals exhibition space of Latvian National Arts Museum, the largest and most important exhibition space for contemporary art in Riga, as a part of Riga - European Culture Capital 2014. The exhibition will be accompanied by public lectures, Renewable Futures conference as well as artist performances and concerts. A catalogue will be produced, which will consist of a special issue of the Acoustic Space peer reviewed academic journal, jointly issued by Liepaja's University Art Research Lab and RIXC.

Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits are artists and founding directors of RIXC, an art institution in Riga, Latvia, whose Art + Communication festival has become one of the most important festivals of this kind in Europe and worldwide. Armin Medosch is a curator, writer and artist based in Vienna, Austria. The Fields exhibition is a follow-up project to Waves 2006, which was also shown at Arsenals in Riga, co-curated by Smite, Smits and Medosch.

The curators selected works that are considered to be contextual seedbeds for social change. The changing role of art in society is one where it does not just create a new aesthetics but gets involved in patterns of social, scientific, and technological transformations.

Fields presents a lively landscape of art that challenges existing viewpoints and deconstructs social issues, but also proposes positive visions for the future. A premise behind this project was from the very start that no single field and associated label can do justice any more to the diversity of contemporary art practices. Typically, today, the most interesting practices are transdisciplinary and transformative - they rely on new combinations of existing fields-as-in-disciplines, combining the artistic with the social and the natural, the scientific and the emotional, the sensible with the actual.

Fields opens up the contemporary field for a free and associative play of radical taxonomies, remixing and recombining existing categories, thereby carrying out important boundary work that gives a new shape to the contact zones between art, science, technology and social engagement in the 21st century.
While the final list of artists may still change, we would like to present some examples for the radical diversity of approaches:
       The relationship with nature plays a major role in this exhibition, often in combination with ideas from the open culture that emerged on the net, about sharing resources and tackling social issues through participatory and social mechanisms.
      In some cases, such as Leave it in the Ground by Oliver Ressler (2013), or Seedsunderground (2013-14) by Shu Lea Cheang, the work carries a clear and direct political message, concerning issues such as renewable energy, sustainability or the fight for the diversity of agricultural seeds and plants.
    Other work, less overtly political, opens our senses and minds to new ways of seeing the world, referring to what French philosopher Jaques Ranci?re calls the 'distribution of the sensible'. Lisa Jevbratt shows how different reality is if we imagine to look at the world with animal eyes. The Belgian collective Okno combines rooftop gardening and beehives to create new maps of the distribution of plant life in cities. Erich Berger measures changes in the magnetic field of the Earth. Manu Luksch offers a free ride on a water taxi in exchange for a conversation with Kayak Libre.
  The human body itself becomes seen as a node in a complex network of force-fields, where nature, genetic science and political and economical topics intersect. The Latvian artist Gints Gabrans proposes to modify our bodies so that, with the help of new enzymes, we can eat grass and tree branches. Hu.M.C.C.- Human Molecular Colonization Capacity project by Maja Smrekar, Slovenia, uses an enzyme from the artist's body to create a yoghurt. Hans Scheirl's paintings and installation Transgenic (TM) breaks through barriers between 2D and 3D, simultaneously opening up new ways of artistic and bodily trans-gression.
        The intersection of social and visual fields is the topic of works by Austrian video artist Annja Krautgasser's Prelude (2010) and media artist Hannah Haslaati, Finland, who uses principles known from Gestalt psychology to make group dynamics visible.
The intersection of the globalised economy with digital technologies, financial markets exploitative labour practices and culture and concerns of local communities and indigenous people are addressed in works such as Histoire Économique (2013) by British artist Hayley Newman, Working Life (2013) by Danish artist collective Superflex and Eccentric Archive (2012-14) by Ines Doujak and John Barker.
       The relevations by Edward Snowden about global surveillance activities of the USA through its PRISM program has made evident how important the invisible world of data flows and data bases is. Data fields, battlefields and the war on terror mark the background for works such as Endless War (2012-14) by British-Japanese artist couple YoHa (Graham Harwood and Matsuko Yokokoji), and We should take nothing for granted! - on the building of an alert and knowledgeable citizenry by Slovenian artist Marko Peljhan and Project Atol.
       The relationship between matter and information, as suggested by cybernetics pioneer Norbert Wiener, is the topic of the Earth Computer (2014) Martin Howse and Ghostradio (2014) by Pamela Neuwirth, Markus Decker and Franx Xaver.
   Artists such as Martins Ratniks' installlation with 27 CRT TV screens, and French artist Cecile Babiole's sound installation are engaging with the raw energy of electrical and electro-magnetic fields, continuing work started with the Waves project in 2006. Relationships between electrical and biological fields inform the work of Latvian sound artist Voldemars Johansons, who, in collaboration with RIXC's own project Biotricity (bacteria battery) has made music from electrical signal fluctuations that are generated by living micro-organisms.

These are some key topics and examples of up to 40 works that will be shown at Fields.

http://fields.rixc.lv

Support: The Fields exhibition is supported by Riga 2014 and Riga City Council, Latvian State Cultural Capital Foundation, Latvian Ministry of Culture, Austrian Ministry of Culture, French Cultural Institute, Nordic Culture Point.

Contact: For further questions please write to: fields@rixc.lv

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Fields exhibition website by RIXC

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Waves - electromagnetic waves as material and medium of art

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Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 18:15 to Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 18:15

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Rasa Smite

Raitis Smits

Armin Medosch

2006. Waves, electromagnetic waves as material and medium of art, Exhibition, Screenings, Conference, RIXC, Arsenals, Riga, 24.08.-10.09.2006, curated by: Armin Medosch, Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits

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Waves - the Art of Electromagnetic Society

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Saturday, May 10, 2008 (All day) to Monday, June 16, 2008 (All day)

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Inke Arns

Armin Medosch

Rasa Smite

Raitis Smits

2008. Waves - the Art of Electromagnetic Society, Exhibition, HMKV, Phoenixhalle, Dortmund, 10.05.-23.06.2008, Curated by: Inke Arns, Armin Medosch, Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits.

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Waves at HMKV 2008

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FIELDS exhibitionArsenals Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art

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