INTERDISCIPLINARY
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CURIO KIOSKS PROJECT
THE KUMASI SYMPOSIUM Tapping Local Resources for Sustainable Education through ArtDepartment of General Art Studies, College of Arts and Social SciencesKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Kumasi, Ghana July 31-August 14, 2009 project curating/developing/documenting/presenting & lecture plus artist presentation The symposium is a partnership between AfriCOAE and the Department of General Art Studies, College of…
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KUMASI/GHANA
… explored human beings and their immediate surroundings to discover what actions can destroy others, or interfere with their environment. This part evolved from the discussion about creating appropriate environments for people – both in general and in particular places. It investigated how local resources could be engaged most efficiently, how art might act as a communicator…
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EVORA/PORTUGAL
… looked further, examining interventions that happen between people/bodies; how we interact, intervene, interfere and how we individually grow into what we finally are: individual beings, formed by culture, society, language. Explorations in the use of movement, dance and rhythm: dancers created situations together in a public space and in private – building communication through movement;…
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SUBNET-INTERVIEW
subnet salzburg platform for media art and experimental technologies project name: SALZBURG_backyard, the AIR project was funded by subnetThe residency led to an exhibition and presentation of work created throughout the time at subnet.Residency: 11th – 31st May, Exhibition dates: 29th May – 12th June 2009, Opening: Thursday 28th May 2009 INTERVENTION – project series 2009 in HD…
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SALZBURG/AUSTRIA
… questioned: What does artistic intervention in public and private mean? What is the attempt for such an intervention? How do we fit – as an individual – into a space? This first approach sought to understand what an art-intervention may be able to cause and investigated how reactions from the general public influenced the intervention itself. Standing…
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SUEX-FOUR-WALL INSTALLATION
SUEX is an installation consisting of four videos in relation to four different sound compositions. Basis is an aphorism by AIP in 16 sequences. The text is translated into Hebrew, Japanese and Noongar (language of Indigenous Australians, southwest corner of Western Australia).The text was recorded in each language, building the main sound. The four videos…
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SUEX BLU-RAY
SUSTAINABILITY & EXTINCTION – audio-visual installation in four parts The project reflects on urgent matters concerning our lifestyle, throwaway society and cultura intolerance/ignorance. It discusses in which directions the world will possibly develop, which relationships/communities are about to be created in context to different perceptions of environmental sustainability and climate change. What does it mean to…
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EXILE
This is an artistic identification with human existence and how we sometimes feel dislocated. The installation plays with the body’s limitations of movement and sets the human body in confrontation to artificial life form that extends human abilities to move. EXILe questions how we try to recreate, recharge and how we deal with the world around us. Body…
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SUEX-SUSTAINABILITY & EXTINCTION ESSAY
published in ARTECH 2008, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Digital Arts by Alvaro Barbosa (Editor), School of Arts, Portuguese Catholic University, Porto, Portugal 2008, ISBN: 978-989-95776-3-3 Abstract — This paper is about the aesthetic, conceptual and technical aspects of the work by new media artist bello benischauer (Australia/Austria) and specifically about his project SUEX, a four-wall…
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SUEX-RECYCLED IMAC INSTALLATION
in collaboration with GRAHAM BRADDY, AVI HARPAZ, TIM McCABE (Australia) and SORA TAKAYAMA (Japan) English-06’40 min, Hebrew-06’40 min, Japanese-06’40 min, and Noongar-05’30 min Blu-ray distributed and available through BLOOMSBURY VIDEO LIBRARY, is home to a rich, growing range of streaming collections for students, teachers and researchers across the arts, humanities and social sciences. our-wall installation, black walls:…
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ASAGAO
This work shows the human being as an alienated and remote-controlled figure that strolls through shopping malls and finds itself exposed to nature and a world based on urban areas, traffic and mass media. The human being starts to float, losing individualism and independence. The body of the main animated figure in Asagao is covered by…