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unraveled - the art-werk podcastAlexandre Joly - Ville subaquatique et mondes parallèles - Lac Des VernesAlexandre Joly, 2023, Ville subaquatique et mondes parallèles - M4, soundpiece created for (re)connecting.earth, 17'26.2023-08-1417 min
unraveled - the art-werk podcastAlexandre Joly - Ville subaquatique et mondes parallèles - M3artwork by Alexandre Joly created for the Biennial of art and urban nature (re)connecting.earth (02) - Beyond Water2023-08-1417 min
unraveled - the art-werk podcast#9 Zheng Bo. How Can We Think Beyond Human Exceptionalism?In this podcast we speak with Chinese artist Zheng Bo about social participative practices, a post-anthropocentric world, the meaning of knowledge in both Western and Chinese culture, and the current political situation in a time of pandemic and multipolarization of powers.
Zheng Bo’s biography and artistic practice give insight on his plurilocal experience between the US, Mainland China and Hong Kong. With the experience of different political environments, he developed a practice oriented with social engaged art and added a main focus since nearly a decade on botany and ecosystem. Through videos, installations, and workshops he develops a non-anthropocentric pe...2020-12-0231 min
unraveled - the art-werk podcast#8 Andreas Greiner. What can art tell us about life that science cannot?For this eighth episode, we welcome Berlin based artist Andreas Greiner. His art draws on biology, biotechnology, and questions the impact of humans on other living forms. After studying medicine, anatomy and sculpture he focuses on time-based and sculptural art works.The content of his work focuses on the anthropogenic influence on nature’s evolution and form. He is part of the artist collectives A / A and Das Numen.2020-06-0200 min
unraveled - the art-werk podcast#7 Henrike Naumann. How did objects lose their innocence?At a time when few people spoke about right-wing violence, it was already on Henrike Naumann’s mind. The artist reacted directly to current events–the resurgence of nationalist violence, and the discovery of the terrorist underground network NSU.
She combines secondhand furniture from the 80s and 90s and makes videos which she integrates in her immersive installations. They tell stories of old and new fascism as well as of youth cultures during globalisation.
Only a few days after the terror attack in the German city of Hanau, and with the right on the rise in German parliaments, we visited her...2020-03-2300 min
unraveled - the art-werk podcast#6 All Play and No Work? Boris Magrini on Lawrence LekWe visited the exhibition “Farsight Freeport” which is the first solo exhibition in Switzerland by Lawrence Lek. At the Haus der Elektronischen Künste in Basel, or HEK in short, we met the co-curator of the show, Boris Magrini.
Lek takes us on a journey through time. Visitors enter a setting which transports them to the year 2065. They discover a time in which artificial intelligence dominates and controls all areas of social, industrial and economic life.
Lawrence Lek is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, and musician based in London. Born in Frankfurt am Main of Malaysian and Chinese descent, he studied archi...2019-11-0500 min
unraveled - the art-werk podcast#5 What’s left of the lost? Interview with artist Dane Mitchell on the New Zealand pavilionFor the final episode of our Venice Special, we’d like to take you to the pavilion of New Zealand. It is housed in the Palazzina Canonica, right by the bank of the Canale Grande. However, the work by the artist Dane Mitchell is not immediately visible. The corridors and staircases of the Neo-Renaissance palace built in 1911 are empty, safe for the occasional piece of furniture. At the heart of the building, there is the library, whose walls are lined with dark, wooden bookshelves. They, too, are empty. Only in the middle of the well-lit room, is a rack with a...2019-09-2500 min
unraveled - the art-werk podcast#4 Why do rituals & collective work go together? Irene Campolmi on Kris Lemsalu’s Estonian PavilionThe artist Kris Lemsalu has been picked to represent the Baltic country. Lemsalu teamed up with a curatorial equipe that consists of the curator Maria Arusoo, the poet Andrew Berardini, the artist Sarah Lucas, her friend and collaborator Tamara Luuk, and the curator and researcher Irene Campolmi. For this podcast Special Venice we talked to Irene over the phone to learn more about the curatorial process. An insider view on the preparation process of the show and the many facets of Kris Lemsalu’s work.
https://www.art-werk.ch/en/podcast/why-do-rituals-and-collective-work-go-together-irene-campolmi-on-kris-lemsalu%27s-estonian-pavilion2019-07-1500 min
unraveled - the art-werk podcast#3 What’s with national representation? Venice Biennial : Charlotte Laubard / Lorenzo SandovalDuring the preview of the 58th Venice art Biennial, Philippe Hindahl and Bernard Vienat interviewed the curator Charlotte Laubard, who invited Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz to exhibit in the Swiss Pavilion. Then we talked to Lorenzo Sandoval, one of the artists of the Finnish pavilion. We discussed their works, their views on collaboration, the national structure of the biennial, and their respective roles as curator and artist.2019-06-1700 min
unraveled - the art-werk podcast#2 - Will Artificial Intelligence become the new artist? - Egor Kraft / Lev ManovichArtificial Intelligence has become a part of our daily lives. It acts as personal assistant, recommends and selects the content we see on our Facebook or Twitter feeds. We asked the artist Egor Kraft about the relevance of this technology in his work, and about the frame of his speculative research. In the second part of this episode we linked it to a review of the essay AI Aesthetic by Lev Manovich. Artificial Intelligence takes part in the selection of images, for instance through the automatic analysis of pictures. But it is also able to create. Recently, AI generated content...2019-05-0800 min
unraveled - the art-werk podcast#1 - Networked system and installation art - Chloé Delarue / Yuk HuiWe welcome Chloé Delarue, Swiss-French artist, who works in her installation with such diverse materials as latex, neon lights, small engines, and video. Her immersive works tell the story of a possible post-apocalyptic future, a parallel world in which only faint traces of mankind remain, where an organic structure reproduces independently.
At the end of each episode, we review an article suggested by our guest. So stay tuned for Philipp Hindahl take on Yuk Hui’s essay titled On the Unhappy Consciousness of Neo-reactionaries.2019-04-0700 min