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is a European-wide artist in residence and exhibition program consisting
of a series of bilateral cooperations among art institutions, which
have joined together to form the network "Art Centers of Europe". artists: Yvette Martini,
Nicoleta Mocanu, Barbara Musil, Markus Seidl Re:Location
5 artists: Herr Mario, Emöke
Vargová
Unlike the national touring exhibitions that are as popular as they are worn out, Re:Location is an attempt to develop new, high quality forms of collaboration, rather than just being limited to the publication of a joint catalogue or passing on finished works in conformity to the market. Re:Location means the shifting and "re-location" of aesthetic artistic practice or one's own institutional work, which results from an intensive confrontation and exchange between two or more positions, geographical locations or social situations. Closely studying the specific cultural and social environment of the respective partner institution, joint curatorial and organizational planning are as much a part of the repertoire as researching the artist scene on site and taking care of the artists' logistical and production-technical needs. The Re:Location projects with the Jána Koniarka Gallery in Trnava (Slovakia) and the Centrul International pentru Arta Contemporana (CIAC) in Bucharest (Romania) are now presented in Linz as a group exhibition of six artists. As artists in residence the Austrian artists Markus Seidl and Barbara Musil developed new works in Cluj, Romania, and the Romanian artists Yvette Martini and Nicoleta Mocanu conversely at the O.K in Linz. Herr Mario was in Trnava, Slovakia, and Emöke Vargová in exchange in Austria.
Herr Mario continues his interest in the complex world of football in Trnava. Trnava, hometown of the FC Spartak, formerly an important bishop's see, has an expansive historical city center. "Herr Mario" defines this city center as a "football field" in the course of a performance: the stadium and the Galéria Jána Koniarka, across from one another at the farthest corners of the center, mark the starting point and goal of the field. "Herr Mario" traverses the city itself a total of eight time, covering all possible routes running with a ball, while being filmed by a camera. At the O.K "Herr Mario" documents this football intervention in precisely looped short shots of his run as a video installation, ultimately representing the city of Trnava as a football field in the form of an (abstract) lawn object. A cooperation with
Galeria Jána Koniarka former teams:
Union Henndorf, Salzburger Lemminge, SHC 83 ASKÖ Lichtenberg, Strom
United
Over months of research
a small library was set up in the O.K on the theme of menage a trois
from the most diverse areas – from self-help to classical literature
all the way to mathematics. The intimate space of love triangles becomes
public in the installation. Three rocking chairs that define this space
invite visitors to use it – to read the books, but also to come
into contact with the other "rockers". A field of terms on
the floor documents the course of the research. A cooperation with Centrul International pentru Arta Contemporana (CIAC), Bucharest, Romania Yvette Martini,
born 1976 in Secuiesc, Rumania; lives and works in Budapest.
A coffeehouse ambient at the O.K becomes a waiting room for heaven. A video with interviews with young people about their "orientation", their favorite place and ideas about what heaven or happiness could mean for them is played in via a mirror-like display to pass the time for those waiting – similar to an airport. A cooperation with Centrul International pentru Arta Contemporana (CIAC), Bucharest, Romania Nicoleta Mocanu
The characteristic backdrop of sound – sirens, alarms – and the high noise level of the city of Cluj were the starting point for the work "Alert". Barbara Musil reprogrammed the alarm systems of ten vehicles from the region of Cluj and replaced the alarm signal with songs and texts relating to the theme of "theft". With these installed in the cars as a "permanent intervention", she left behind her own acoustic note in Cluj. Cars as objects of representation and value insurance are among the motifs mentioned in the interviews with the owners of the new alarm systems. In addition to the documentation of this project, Barbara Musil brings an acoustic and visual translation of the location to the O.K. A cooperation with Centrul International pentru Arta Contemporana (CIAC), Bucharest, Romania Barbara Musil,
1972 born in Salzburg
Markus Seidl deals with the value and valuing of work, for instance in his project "A Village Does Nothing" for the Festival of the Regions 2001. In the course of his scholarship stay in Rumania, he further developed this approach site-specifically with artists from Cluj: starting from the linguistic observation that the Rumanian language has numerous expressions for paraphrasing the relationship between work and doing nothing, he had Rumanian artists stage sayings and aphorisms on the theme of "leisure" and documented their ideas in photographs. A cooperation with Centrul International pentru Arta Contemporana (CIAC), Bucharest, Romania Markus Seidl,
living in Linz and Vienna, working mainly with the Stadtwerkstatt/Linz
and the Kunstradio/Vienna.
Emöke
Vargová (SK) „SCHÖNER WOHNEN In the continuation
of her interest in the magazine "SCHÖNER WOHNEN" A cooperation with Galeria Jána Koniarka Emöke Vargová,
born 1965 in Dunajská Streda/SK
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