multiplex fiction

multiplex fiction

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Art, research, a salmagundi of quirks – unruly monsters of translation between various media: film, installation, performance, text.
Ever got lost in a Multiplex looking for the right movie? "Height, width, breadth, and
a couple of other things."

Obviously a major malfunction /
KAGO KAGO KAGO BE

Installation / exhibition, 2011/2012
The space shuttle as a vehicle to travel through time / a history of the past three decades / two disasters framing global transformation.

Obviously a major malfunction / KAGO KAGO KAGO BE,
2011/2012 (excerpt from a video channel)

Obviously a major malfunction / KAGO KAGO KAGO BE, 2011/2012
(exhibition view Kunsthaus Baselland / Foto: Viktor Kolibal)

exhibition views: Kunsthaus Baselland, Lentos / Linz

Obviously a major malfunction / KAGO KAGO KAGO BE, 2011/2012
(excerpt from a video channel)

Obviously a major malfunction / KAGO KAGO KAGO BE, 2011/2012
(exhibition view Kunsthaus Baselland / Foto: Viktor Kolibal)

Obviously a major malfunction / KAGO KAGO KAGO BE, 2011/2012
(exhibition view Kunsthaus Baselland / Foto: Viktor Kolibal)

Obviously a major malfunction / KAGO KAGO KAGO BE, 2011/2012
(exhibition view Kunsthaus Baselland / Foto: Viktor Kolibal)

Obviously a major malfunction / KAGO KAGO KAGO BE, 2011/2012
(still from a video channel)

Obviously a major malfunction / KAGO KAGO KAGO BE, 2011/2012
(exhibition detail)

Obviously a major malfunction / KAGO KAGO KAGO BE, 2011/2012
(exhibition view Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz / Foto: maschekS)

Obviously a major malfunction / KAGO KAGO KAGO BE,
2011/2012 (excerpt from a video channel)

Obviously a major malfunction / KAGO KAGO KAGO BE, 2011/2012
(exhibition view Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz)

Obviously a major malfunction / KAGO KAGO KAGO BE, 2011/2012
(excerpt from a video channel)

The Ninth Biospherian

Installations, exhibitions, performance, 2007 –
Tracking down history, context and legacy of Biosphere 2, a miniature world under glass; from 1991-993 eight people lived inside this closed ecological system, exploring ecological networks and testing future space colonies.
Transmedia-Translations of The Ninth Biospherian: a Science Fiction novel, a phantom, a MacGuffin.

Das Muster der Schatten des Spaceframe der Biosphere 2, (...)
Secession Vienna, 2008 (exhibition view / Foto: Oliver Ottenschläger)

exhibition views:
Secession / Vienna, ARGOS / Brussels, Triennale Linz, Kunstpavillon Innsbruck

Das Muster der Schatten des Spaceframe der Biosphere 2, (...)
Secession Vienna, 2008 (exhibition view / Foto: Oliver Ottenschläger)

An intro is a footnote. Und eine Parataxe ist eine in sich selbst faltende Falle.
Video Still, 2008

(...)That said, serendipity has been voted the third hardest to translate word.
exhibition view, Triennale Linz, 2010

(...)That said, serendipity has been voted the third hardest to translate word.
exhibition view, Triennale Linz, 2010

(...) traveling through Biosphere 2, or: Anastylosis of Follies
exhibition view, ARGOS, Brussels, 2010

(...) traveling through Biosphere 2, or: Anastylosis of Follies
exhibition view, ARGOS, Brussels, 2010

Das Muster der Schatten des Spaceframe der Biosphere 2, (...)
Secession Vienna, 2008 (exhibition view / Foto: Oliver Ottenschläger)

Ein Blick durch Millionen Tropfen, die sich durch Kondensation (...)
exhibition view, Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck, 2008

Ein Blick durch Millionen Tropfen, die sich durch Kondensation (...)
exhibition view, Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck, 2008

Writing

Selected texts:
– On Performative Research
– HOW TO DO THINGS WITH
WORLDS, 26a (.pdf)
– Translator's note: The Ninth Biospherian
dt./.pdf, engl./.pdf
– OR, IN PUBLISHED FORM –>

Publications & Catalogues

available directly here
or some also on Amazon

Woran glauben die Motten, wenn sie zu den Lichtern streben
Obviously a major malfunction / KAGO KAGO KAGO BE
catalogue with essays by Graham Harman, Jon McKenzie & Ursula Maria Probst
dt./engl., Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nürnberg, 2011

Catalogue Lentos / Kunsthaus Baselland,
dt./engl., 2011

Das Muster der Schatten des Spaceframe der Biosphere 2, (...)
catalogue with a conversation between Eva Maria Stadler and Ralo Mayer and a
text by Ralo Mayer, dt./engl., Secession Vienna, 2008

Catalogue Secession,
dt./engl., 2008

HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORLDS, 1
miniature book with a Science Fiction story and illustrations on models,
Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, engl., 2006

HOW TO DO THINGS
WITH WORLDS, 1
miniature book
Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen,
engl., 2006

WHAT IS LIFE
Clay Tablets & Poster Publication with contributions by: Eva Egermann,
Oliver Gemballa, Jakob Jakobsen, Wolfgang Konrad & Ursula Hansbauer,
Christina Linortner, Ralo Mayer, Christian Töpfner, 2008

WHAT IS LIFE
a magazine of clay
tablets & poster
publication, 2008

Der Raum, der sich unter einer Treppe ergibt, die (...), 2007/2008

Der Raum, der sich unter
einer Treppe ergibt, (...)
self-published booklet,
dt., 2007/2008

Die Ziolkowski-Achse / The Tsiolkovsky Axis
dt./engl., Adocs, Hamburg, 2011

Die Ziolkowski-Achse
The Tsiolkovsky Axis
Adocs, dt./engl., 2011

Den Meteoriten die Würde zurückgeben
dt., booklet, 2010

Den Meteoriten die Würde zurückgeben
dt., 2008

HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORLDS
various Offset-Posters, with Philipp Haupt and others, 2006-2007

HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORLDS
various Offset-print posters, 2006-2007

Why do we see the photo of the whole Earth so often (that we don’t even
see it anymore)? video excerpt

Why do we see the photo of the whole Earth so often
(that we don’t even see it anymore)?
Video / lecture, Regionale, 2012