The contemporary, distributed. On the mobility of a temporal concept

Published in: Heritage Space Hanoi and University of the Arts Bremen (eds.), Alternative Mobility, Hanoi 2024, pp. 173-191. “Halle” and “Hanoi”. The two places are flickering across a programmed black-and-white LED-screen as part of the work Self Portrait by Sung Tieu. They are listed among various cities where the artist has been living until the … Continue reading The contemporary, distributed. On the mobility of a temporal concept

Coded Transition Zones: Architecture-related Works by Marguerite Hersberger

Published in: Sabine Schaschl, Stiftung für konstruktive und konzeptuelle Kunst (ed.), Dem Raum Raum geben. Marguerite Hersbergers architektur- und raumbezogenes Werk, Wien: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2023, pp. 18-33. Five fragments of a cube in black volcanic rock lie scattered in the park outside the castle Schloss Salenegg. A narrow gravel path serves as the … Continue reading Coded Transition Zones: Architecture-related Works by Marguerite Hersberger

Living and Working: On the Normalization of Artistic Work

Published in: Painters & Sculptors Building Cooperative Wuhrstrasse 8/10 Zurich (ed.), Working and Living, Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess 2021, pp. 152–169. Artists live and work. This sentence with corresponding place name introduces the short text that accompanies practically every exhibition, media release, or grant application. The information inevitably provokes geographical and cultural allocations: known or … Continue reading Living and Working: On the Normalization of Artistic Work

Subject: Nayan, Julong, Naulekh, Ogotai, Tsarang and Umsonai

Lisa Biedlingmaier and Burkhard Meltzer in an email conversation, published on October 18, 2020 in: tria Spreadsheet #21. Dear Burkhard, After the entire Swiss art scene ascended to the mountains this summer (from what I can see on my insta bubble), I too decided to relocate my practice, and followed a herd of yaks at … Continue reading Subject: Nayan, Julong, Naulekh, Ogotai, Tsarang and Umsonai