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Ich weiss nicht. Growing relations between things
Vienna Biennale, MAK - Museum of applied Arts Vienna, 2017
Ich weiss nicht - Growing relations between things, 2017
"ich weiß nicht" reflects upon the reality of things, upon the power of networks, upon sensuality and materiality, upon not-knowing, upon worrying, and upon letting go. The exhibition title is a concrete reference to the photographic work ich weiß nicht (2001) by Birgit Jürgenssen, which depicts the artist’s car snowed under in a parking spot. The no longer roadworthy conveyance becomes a vehicle for the artist’s breaking of a taboo—ich weiß nicht as a disarming human confession of relief in light of the failing machine, an alternative form of autonomy and mental “mobility.”
The relationships between things and people arise on many different levels at the same time: conscious and unconscious, spontaneous, ongoing, rarely not at all. This “economy of affects” is interesting with regard to the latitude wherein observers and objects operate: the “network power” of things does not reside in their ability to give specific instructions, but in creating the premises for relating to each other—and ultimately for relating to us. (Excerpt Press Text)
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Return to the Canyon* 2017
Steel, latex, wood, plaster, clay, acrylic glass, paper, papier mache,
acrylic paint, foam, various dimensions
*Screeens & walldrawing by Zin Taylor
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