Salon Flux and mo.ë Exhibition/Intervention on Emotional Labour
project and event curated with Salon Flux, an artist run collective based in London.
An evening of happenings on 14th of May 2016 at the art space mo.ë at Thelemanngasse, Vienna.
Flyer by David Sagberg
The evening will start with an Open Dinner and round table discussion on "emotional labour" (the work of feeling for others).
Throughout this discussion artists and visitors are invited to consider questions on value and valence in artistic practice: How does artistic practice and collaboration change in precarious circumstances? How do we position our-selves in precarious spaces?
Interdisciplinary works by artists from London & Vienna will be exhibited throughout the course of the evening. The space will become projection screen for audio-visual live performances & performative interventions.
Dinner guests:
Anna Stangl (drawing)
Minou Tsambika (movement, body)
starsky (media art)
Veronika Persché (knit design & fabric art)
Ana Loureiro (painting, graphic arts, photography)
hosted by Franziska Zaida Schrammel and Mira Loew
Exhibiting / performing artists:
David Altweger/ Sagberg & Aaron James - live audio-visual performance
Mira Loew & Jane Frances Dunlop - collaborative performative 'exchange'
Michaela Altweger - sculpture/installation
Chiara Bartl-Salvi & Amar Priganica - multi-media performance "Die Nacht"
With the opening of "The Unwritten: Highlights in Emerging Painting" happening in 25 days, I'd like to let you know of two rather cool things that were negotiated the last couple weeks:
The exhibition's finissage (Saturday, October 4th, 2014) is part of the nationwide ORF Lange Nacht der Museen (Long Night of Museums), an initiative making over 700 museums accessible with one ticket. The exhibition venue, mo.ë, seems to be the only artist-run space that managed to get into the program.
The exhibition is one of the rare initiatives sponsored by fluxguide, an Austrian startup founded by Kasra and André Seirafi, enabling museums and exhibition spaces around the globe to extend their exhibitions in a contemporary, participative way. fluxguide's smartphone app allows visitors to access a whole range of extensive background information on the exhibited works and their respective artists. This includes basic info like artist bios and work information, but also the artist's thoughts on specific pieces, or the possibility to view further (not exhibited) works of those artists the visitor is interested in - and more:
Visitors can navigate their way through the exhibition space based in state-of-the-art bluetooth beacons, as well as create their own personal digital collections of favorite works. They can also comment on the exhibited works themselves, facilitating a still rare, yet long wished for possibility to connect recipients and artists - in the exhibition, but also later on, from at home (for more information, visit www.fluxguide.com).
With all these things happening, I’m so looking forward to this show - and hope you'll join us at mo.ë in the week of September 30th - October 5th, to experience a fresh look into what’s currently happening in painting, in Vienna 2014.
Who is the puppet and who the puppeteer? Who leads and who follows? Or is it about the space in-between, which results in the process?
By manipulating space and body, the kleistian center of gravity is shifted deliberately and provokes a reaction. The borders between puppeteer and puppet dissolve. The question who leads and who follows turns obsolete.
The space, full of memories and objects, perceived as obstacles, imposing limited paths and obstructing free movement, serves as inspiration and reference – audio-visually as well as physically.
Sound recordings and projections communicate with the movement of the dancer, processing the memory of the space, in ab-/presence of the objects, which – in a sense - still pull the strings from afar.
