Possible titles:
Seeing something as something, I see five
marble slabs and a sheet of metal, In the
idyll of certainty, solidified opinions
2023
variable dimensions
five engraved marble slabs 40 x 60 x 1.8 cm, metal sheet 195 x 94 x 1.5 cm, screw clamp
es war einmal es war keinmal
self-evident truth
repeated, anchored, reproduced,
considered as a neutral condition
known through knowing
perceived because it has been perceived
what was always there
distinguishing things from each other
I see who and what my mind finds plausible
selective perception, shared fictions
causality, cause and effect
continuous,
measurable, predictable, reliable
two comes after one
white is the color of
my feet adapt
a sense of orientation and security
Ich glaube
ich bin
Objektiv
Autofiktion
Die eigene Sichtweise
Andere Sichtweisen
Dinge die ich oft höre glaube ich leichter
Die Welt im Kontext
Ein Selbst im Kontext
Ein moralisches, intelligentes und vernünftiges Selbst
geleitet von Überzeugungen
Ich glaube
meinen Ansichten
Gegenargumente
Verteidigung eines Selbst
Dinge die ich oft sehe glaube ich leichter
Exhibition view Zurich University of the Arts MA Fine Arts 2023 degree show, Photo: Cedric Mussano
untitled: stone I
2023
Marble, 60 x 40 x 1.7 cm
Exhibition view OffSpace Flüelastrasse 2023
creating value
2022
Pen on paper, Sheet 79 x 113 cm
value x
value 2056 ⋅ x
Tageslicht zur Tageszeit [ *daylight at daytime ]
2023
Dimension variable
Wall-filling 3-channel video projection
Dynamic Desktop “Solar Gradients” Apple
The spectrum of the colour gradient changes simultaneously with the daylight.
07:15
18:15
20:15
everything but the right thing
2021
random generator based on HTML, CSS, JavaScript
readme.txt
Terms are acquired habits of distinguishing things from each other.
Seeing something as something.
Knowledge is developed within a common framework and has a social origin, a social utility.
It is neutral neither in its origin nor in its effect; it reflects the bias of a particular social order.
I see who and what my mind finds plausible
Whatever I experience, I experience by aligning it with an internal model of the world.
Influences from the outside world are influenced by our stored image, our memories.
These include preconceptions and prejudices that interpret and fill in the messages.
Identifying them with our own interests as we feel and conceive them.
Our brain searches for causality, cause and effect. Our mind assumes that our environment follows certain patterns,
continuous, measurable and Predictable.
We have a need for meaning, causality provides this meaning. A sense that we can understand and comprehend.
This allows us to explain and structure our environment, which gives us a sense of orientation and security.
We have the desire for a reliable environment, which thereby becomes predictable and readable and thus seems
controllable. We do so by simplifying, generalising and often absolutising.
Shared fictions that become reality.
The only condition: the majority must believe in it.
ONE NATION [ one imagination ]
2022
Flag textile, 121 x 80 cm
untitled: SCHWEIZ
2021
Scrabble letters, clockwork, acrylic glass 45 x 60cm.
00:00
00:15
00:30
00:45
[ time lapse ]
sensus communis
2020
Dimension variable, lacquered metal, single element: 250 x 110cm
The values, meanings and ethical presuppositions that every member of community inherits, that become judgments we
make without much reflection. What we call „common sense“ becomes the common ground of truth, with „truth“ as the
community’s judgment about practical needs and choices.
Tage
on going - daily since October 2019
black pen, stamp on DIN A4 offset paper.
The daily movement is noted every 24 hours with the help of a map. The result is a seemingly „abstract“ line on a DIN A4 offset paper. The document is marked with scale and date.
shown is an excerpt
Exhibition view «a hundred or more» 2022
suggestions for public space
on going (selection)
Shared fictions that become reality.
The only condition: the majority must believe in it.
doing reality;
human being as second-order chaotic system
2018
collaboration Steven Schoch, Jorim e. Huber
Authors are following the action at the vernissage via a live broadcast. They are located in a separate
room, which is neither accessible nor visible to visitors.
The writer chooses a figure (a visitor), a grouping, the action as a whole, etc. and „ maintains“ their
presence.
The text is transferred to several screens located in the exhibition space. The temporary protagonists (visitors)
are thus constantly given a new role. Reading a new, fictitious interpretation of their behaviour, assertions about
their actions, their being, their thoughts and intentions, which merges with the actual presence experienced and
undermine the idiosyncrasy of the place and the occasion.
The aim of the work is to create an oscillating relationship between observer and protagonist in which the
protagonist or the observer becomes aware of the assertion about his person.
We change reality through observation, description and assertion.
Our reality is formed by a historical narrative that we are telling ourselves and the resulting prognosis
of the future.
The visitor finds himself in a setting in which he experiences himself as a second-order chaotic
system. In contrast to a chaotic system of the first order, a chaotic system of the second order is
influenced by prediction, in this case the narrative of the author. It goes so far that already the idea of
an observer has influence on his behavior.
Within the situation, the visitor embodies all roles; protagonist, observer, and author in the sense of
actor with a free will. A kind of echo or feedback system is created.
The levels of observation and prediction are superimposed, as the actorial level lies over the situation,
the viewer recognizes others as protagonists and others perceive him as protagonists. But he himself
remains capable of action and can in turn influence the situation.
The intersubjective reality changes wherever this work takes place.
Steven Schoch, Jorim e. Huber 2018
Exhibition view Kunsthaus Centre PasquArt 2018
based on a true story
2016
4-channel audiovisual installation, 7min 30sec, loop, material: protective sheet, 4x projectors,
4x speaker, dimension. 3 x 3 x 3m
Four voices (Petra, Anna, Markus, Yanick) of the mac voiceover program are discussing.
A cube made out of translucent masking foil is centred in the exhibition space.
The moving image is projected from inside the cube onto the cubes wall (painter‘s masking foil).
Each of the four voices is speaking over a loudspeaker. The loudspeaker are mounted on to the walls of the exhibition room (one speaker per wall, one voice per speaker).
Exhibition view Kunstraum Florenz Basel 2016
Skript für Petra, Anna, Markus und Yannick (ein Ausschnitt)
[...]
P: Der Homo Sapiens, ein Produkt eines evolutionären
Prozesses, der ohne Zweck oder Ziel agiert.
M: da stehen wir nun
Y: da stehen wir nun
M: dahin leben. Oder dorthin leben?
A: der Homo Sapiens, nach seinem Wissen das einzige
Wesen, welches über Möglichkeiten spekulieren und
Geschichten erfinden kann.
M: Und daran glaubt.
[...]
M: Es ist uns allen ein Bedürfnis ein Muster zu haben nach
dem wir die Welt lesen können.
A: Die Biologie erlaubt, die Kultur verbietet.
[...]
P: Willkürliche menschliche Fantasie Produkte, die
gesellschaftliche Ordnungen und Hierarchien definieren.
A: Die einzige Bedingung
ALLE: die Mehrheit muss daran glauben.
P: Und in gewisser Weise von den selben Dingen träumen.
[…]
Y: Streben.
A: hin und her
M: zwischen dem Gefühl des Mangels und der Langeweile
des Besitzes.
A: streben nach Erfolg im Job, Harmonie in Familie un
Partnerschaft. Und nach einem glücklichen,
langen Leben.
Y: Mein streben zeigt nur was in unserer intersubjektiven
Wirklichkeit erstrebenswert ist.
M: Ich bin der Gaul von Don Quijote
[...]
M: ich bin ein chaotisches System zweiter Ordnung.
P: Chaotische Systeme zweiter Ordnung lassen sich durch
die Vorhersagen beeinflussen.
P: Solange meine Vorstellung mit den Vorstellungen der
Menschen in meiner Umgebung harmoniert, kann ich mir
ein reden, dass mein Leben einen Sinn hat. Das macht
mich glücklich und zufrieden.
P: Ich diene der Menschheit.
Y: Ich diene dem Vaterland.
A: Ich diene dem Wohlstand, also der Gesellschaft.
Y: Ich diene dem Herrn.
M: Mir dient das nichts.
[...]
Y: Kater in der Seele
P: die Seele ist ein kollektiver Mythos
M: haben sie auch das Gefühl, dass es noch besser wird als
es Heute ist?
P: die Geschichte entwickelt sich nicht zum Nutzen der
Menschheit. Es gibt nicht den geringsten Beweis, dass
es den Menschen im Verlauf der Geschichte immer
besser geht.
[...]
A: Geschichte ist etwas, das eine kleine Minderheit tut,
während die anderen Äcker pflügen und Wasser
schleppen.
M: namhafte und namenlose Menschen
P: Umfassende historische Wende oder vorübergehende
Glückssträhne?
A: Historischer Zufall
P: als Zufall bezeichnen wir das zusammentreffen, bzw. die
Überlagerung von zwei notwendigen Kausalketten, an
deren Schnittstelle sich jemand absichtslos befindet.
M: Ich habe mehr erwartet.
Arbeit (w)
Leistung (p) =
Zeit (t)
2015
video installation, 16:41min, loop
video still
past and upcoming weather
2014 / 2018
wooden pedestal/memorial 240x42x42cm, book content: weather forecast of the last 200 years,
location of measurement anonymized, metronome: 108 beats per minute, office cupboard:
72x68x40cm, framed text
framed text:
Excuse me, I just had ideas for another art piece.
Maybe it would have entertained you pleasantly, maybe you would have been impressed by
the handcraft or by the unusual idea.
Maybe it would have been another examination of the space, with the transience of human
existence or a critical reflection of the society.
Another decoration of our desired importance and vaunted civilization.
Maybe you would have enjoyed it between two sips of red wine
and soon forgotten.
Reminded of this or that artwork, reminded of this or that artist.
Nice concept, a nice idea.
Maybe someone well-known would have lifted it out of the unknown.
Designated it as innovative, radical, or even eminent.
Well, you have to highlight works and artists, to legitimize the sales value and the claimed
space in the museum.
Market price and audience figures are important.
Exhibition view eWerk Gallery for Contemporary Art 2018, Photos: Marc Doradzillo
the surveillant, of the surveillant,
of the surveillant
2013
about the hierarchy of surveillance
The installation was located in the lobby of the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki. The official surveillance
cameras where confronted with unofficial surveillance cameras which were connected to a tv-monitor.
The unofficial surveillance cameras where set up in a cloak-and-dagger operation.
Exhibition view Lobby Kaiku Gallery Helsinki 2013, Photo: Tom Warhol
emotinal hangover,
or the small dream of a home ownership
2013
wooden slats: house 148x148x250cm, video projection: 4min 58sec, silent, loop
Idealized mental constructs grown in the fertile soil of reality. We believe because we want to believe.
We want more than exists.
«Gabo nods: «We all know that our Hotel California is not the one from the song. But secretly we want
to believe the opposite. Therefore, the lie has become the truth. » » *1
Site specific work for the exhibition called «hotel California» at Kunstverein Offenburg
*1 http://www.tagesspiegel.de: wo Hippies träumen wollen. 10.08.2013. der Tagesspiegel. 11.10.2009.
Newspaper article about a mexican village called Los Cabos. Los Cabos became famous because of
the legend that the eagle’s song « hotel california » is about a hotel in this village. The eagle’s denied
that song is about this place and they also said that they never visited Los Cabos.
Exhibition view Kunstverein Offenburg 2013
video still
ein kleines Nachtjournal
2015
book: format 9.8x13.6cm, 42pages, paper z-offset rough, white, 90g/m²
shown is an excerpt
404 not found
2015
book: format 21x16.5cm, 190pages, paper z-offset rough, white, 120g/m²
shown is an excerpt,
persona unknown I - ∞
on going (selection)
oil on canvas
27x37cm
oil on canvas
29x35cm
pen on paper
14x20.5cm
Copic and ink on paper
14x10cm
pen on paper
21x29.7 cm
pen on paper
21x29.7 cm
ink on paper
21x29cm
oil and ink on canvas
24x28cm
so long
