mixed media
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HUMANITY REENACTED
CURATORIAL | VIDEO | PHOTOS It critically questions a global unfolding of uprooted identification with tradition and ritual and how this shapes today’s people and the individual.This recently written and highly topical piece by Existence Theatre is a philosophical examination about culture and humanity. It depicts how the phenomenon of war uses fear evoking behaviours to feed destructive forces…
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GRAPHIC LANDSCAPE
GRAPHIC LANDSCAPE – Mixed Media on Hardboard, 120x60cm, private collection a series of 9 wall-objects “If I would tell myself a story, it would probably look like this: different images that present some of my memories. This story may of course change, as we commemorate different things on different days. Often such stories of memory may…
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FRÖNEND-OBJECT
About the video triptych FRÖNEND (German for the word “indulging”): it is a project in the style of the Existence Theatre method and exhibits the human form – in this work again – the artists themselves. Three performing figures are placed next to each other, wrapped up in white curtains, metaphorically in their own worlds and thoughts. They…
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HAUNTED-OBJECT
This wall-object shows a man, carrying a suitcase (symbolising materialism) and his alter ego, on his way to the winner’s podium to take first place. In relation to the video diptych HAUNTED it reflects in an exaggerated way on which efforts we employ, just to succeed. Or at least, what we mean by leading a successful life. It…
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SYNCHRONISATION_TRIAL OBJECT
This wall-object shock freezes a certain image, a movement/expression from the same-titled video installation SYNCHRONISATION TRIAL, where the artists question, which footprints we leave behind and how we individually shape this world at all. With this work they revisit once again one of their themes of interest: aspects of significant culturally formed behaviour patterns. AIP generally engage with…
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ERICH
This wall-object relates to EMMA UND ELIAS as well as STEFANIE-FRANZ UND ERICH wall-objects that the artist created in relation to AGAINST ONESELF as a counterpart to this performance series that addresses our various struggles with the human existence and the world from a present day perspective. Returning to our roots, finding back to our origins; symbolised…
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STEFANIE-FRANZ UND ERICH
This wall-object relates to EMMA und ELIAS wall-objects that the artist created in relation to AGAINST ONESELF. It acts as a counterpart to this performance series that addresses our various struggles with the human existence and the world from a present day perspective. Returning to our roots, finding back to our origins; symbolised by two child…
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EMMA UND ELIAS
EMMA und ELIAS wall-objects is a diptych that the artist created in relation to AGAINST ONESELF. It acts as a counterpart to this performance series that addresses our various struggles with the human existence and the world from a present day perspective. Returning to our roots, finding back to our origins; symbolised by two child…
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LEDIG-OBJECT
Ledig wall-object seems to shock-freeze a certain image, a movement/expression from the same-titled video installation LEDIG that looks into the alienation of human existence within nature and the world. The wall-object shows the fading footprint that we individually leave behind.
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UNTAUGLICH-OBJECTS
Untauglich wall-objects shock freeze a certain image, a movement/expression from the same-titled video installation UNTAUGLICH that looks into transnationally existing forms of social and/or political constraints, inspired by its German title Untauglich, which means ineligible for military service. In this work the artist observes situations of specific behaviour patterns and lifestyles, he reflects on how suddenly…
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INTERMISSION-OBJECTS
The wall-objects have been developed in direct relation to the video installations in the bigger context of the “NO INTERMISSION” series.This body of work addresses cultural patterns and behaviour systems in history and cross-culture. It questions various aspects of symbolisation in context to the human being; how certain items receive iconographical relevance and tend to…
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CycleA-Z
Association of a new cycle of life and a new world’s creation; there is no end like some religions or philosophers foretell, but an endless and everlasting circle of an ongoing series of paintings. They correlate to diverse landscapes, light and atmospheres, which can be seen as maps and also show the artist’s developing work…