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Eröffnung: 11.9.2009, 19h – Ausstellung 12.09. 2009 bis 20.09. 2009 // MuseumsQuartier Wien, Ovalhalle/Arena21
(festival, kooperation, museumsquartier, medienkunst, japan)Starting with Pecha Kucha Night, followed by a Live-Performance of Artist-In-Residence Tetsuya Umeda and finally leading to contemporary electronic music featuring a selection of live-acts and DJs from the label Trust Records and the Japanese party format Minimal Tokyo.
(mediaarts, festival, mumok, vienna, event, japan, codedcultures, party, pechakucha, hofstallungen)The exhibition of “CODED CULTURES - Exploring Creative Emergences” is presenting international artworks and projects related to the four sub-topics of the festival: Designing Complexity, Assembling Things, Expanding Locality and Creating Proto-Culture.
The presented positions from Japan, Austria and Europe are distinguished by creative practices which explore new forms of media integrated delineation- and knowledge-cultures. By this means they are situated on the intersection of disciplines and have actively integrated different cultural fields in their artistic development.
The exhibition was developed within the course of Dr. Georg Russegger at the department of “Transmedia Arts”. Related to the context of CODED CULTURES and the »Austria-Japan Year 2009« the aim was to explore contents and practices of creative self-design and self-organization, to raise questions about binational cooperations of artists and artistic projects.
By presenting examples and research footage from Japanese arts and cultures the goal was to establish an external view on these conditions. The indoctrination of a cooperation year does not suffice to create common places and common situations per se. Dealing with the issue of artistic ideas and developments opens the opportunity to create a think tank of unforced interpretations and ideas which can also lead to substitutes of cooperation.
In this sense each student had to develop an idea in cooperation with a Japanese counterpart, to establish a set of communications leading to an art piece. Those are exhibited in a glass porch with the size of A (Jap. square measure) which serves as a metaphor for the lack of space in Japan. The thereby percieved spacial density reflects the intellectual density the artists’ aim to achieve in the exhibition.
26.5.-7.6.2009
University of Applied Arts
ca. 2 jo – substitute of common places
(Transmedia Arts Department)
Opening: 25.5., 19.00
Open daily: 6 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Participating Artists:
Verena Dürr
Kathrin Kaiser
Wolfgang Lehrner
Alexander Martinz
Tobias Pilz
Johann Scholz
Nicole Weniger
