Exhibition
CONTROL / SHIFT / PLUS is a joint exhibition by students of the international CAS/MAS program in Curating at ICS, ZHdK with their individual artists. It will show a variety of different artist practices from photography to installative works to video art and performance pieces.
Valerio Vincenzo - Borderline Project
Curated by Mona Liem
Samuel Rauber & Christian Indergand - Nach der Natur
Curated by Anja Soldat
so+ba - Poster Artwork
Curated by Makiko Takahashi
Paloma Ayala - What escaped corruption is extremely precious
Curated by Mona Liem
Marina Grzinic/ Aina Smid/ Zvonka Simcic - Images of Struggle / Decoloniality
Curated by Alejandro Mondria
Decocoon: Alberto Ruano + Magdalena Ostrokolska - Sag-Es-Box
Curated by Eleonora Stassi
23rd January 6 to 8 pm
31st January 2 to 5 pm
A Performative Piece by Nicole Bachmann
Curated by Nadja Baldini and Agustina Strüngmann
20th February 6 to 9pm
Valerio Vincenzo - Borderline Project
Curated by Mona Liem
Borders are not always what they used to be. Lines that separated countries now bring them together. War battlegrounds are now playgrounds. A radical peace has swept over Europe during the last decades, providing an alternative definition for the word "border". Freez circulation amongst various cultures can finally be embraced instead of shunned.
With the signature of the Schengen Agreements in 1985, European borders started undergoing change little by little. These Agreements are a giant leap in the progressive unification of Europe and in the emergence of a European conscience.
Since 2007, with the help of a GPS and detailed maps, Valerio Vincenzo has devoted myself to traveling along the internal European borders each year to bring back images that capture the essence of these now-peaceful crossings. Even if sometimes he took these photographs thousands of kilometres away from each other, each image is far from the stereotypical vision of a border.
Valerio Vincenzo was born in 1973 and is an independent photographer.
He works on long-term projects as well as on assignments for the press.
His Borderline, the Frontiers of Peace project has been published worldwide and has also been exposed numerous times, in particular on the railings of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris. In 2014, for Borderline, Valerio Vincenzo was awarded the Prix Louise Weiss, which honors excellence in European journalism. He is a member of the creative platform Hanslucas.com.
Samuel Rauber & Christian Indergand - Nach der Natur
Curated by Anja Soldat
The installative work 'Nach der Natur' (after nature) (2014/15) is a multimedia-based approach to exploring the mountanious regions of Andermatt, Furkapass and Operalp in Central Switzerland. During the cold war numerous bunker facilities were installed, they continue to exist today, scattered throughout the region. These laboriously disguised fortifications have been left abandoned in recent times and now only their camouflage remains, constantly exposed to harsh weather conditions. The once almost perfect imitations of alpine scenery are gradually being reclaimed by nature itself, exposing more and more the artificiality of the disguise.
'Nach der Natur' makes these shiftings and breaching between nature and artificiality the central topic: Images of the forts are shown in relation to views of the alpine landscape. The installation is a composition of three projection screens with changing imagery and background sound. It seeks to leave the spectator uncertain of what is shown and tries to provoke critical thinking about the potential of manipulation through media.
Samuel Rauber and Christian Indergand
are students at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), they started working as a team in 2014. Their works are often based on the medium of photography as a source of visual research. Combined with other media, such as text and sound installations, they create works with a conceptual approach and a direct relation to the context and way of presentation.www.samuelrauber.ch
www.substrat.imanüm.net
so+ba - Poster Artwork
Curated by Makiko Takahashi
susanna baer and alex sonderegger started their design studio "so+ba", in tokyo in 2001. with their experiences in graphic design and advertising in switzerland and japan, as well as a good understanding of the two very different cultures, cross-cultural communication is one of the strength and the focus of so+ba.
"so+ba" is active in the field of graphic design, art direction, sound visualization and teaching typography and design.
Paloma Ayala - What escaped corruption is extremely precious
Curated by Mona Liem
What escaped corruption is extremely precious. is a series of drawings and texts in response to the pro-human rights and against-violence movements that have been increasingly active due to the recent abductions of a group of students and the discoveries of an important number of mass graves in a small town of central Mexico and is part of a larger project done by Paloma Ayala titled Shame and Generational Disorder.
The images of protest and activist art produced in the past few months reflect the cultural, political, social, and even emotional aspects of the protest: an angry community that wants to address the "empty" spaces of the disappeared youngsters (#nosfaltan43)[2], the violence that is affecting the general population, and the corruption of a political system that allows criminal groups to have control over them.
Protest images and texts are a mode of communication, and intrinsically carry a sense of hope that somehow Art will have an impact in popular consciousness. The series of drawings reflect a specific preoccupation, yes, but also are easily included in contemporary aesthetics of political art and symbolism. They have references to pre-Columbian Mexican aesthetics, as well as to personal and domestic stories collected by the artist in Mexico and Switzerland.
Paloma Ayala
Paloma Ayala (1980, Matamoros, Mexico) received a BFA at the University of Monterrey, Mexico in 2002. A year later she finished a Professional Teaching Degree at Arte A.C. also in Mexico, and then moved to Rochester, NY (USA). From 2005 to 2010 she organized community workshops for children and adults, as well as developed and exhibited her artwork. She is currently studying an MA in the ZhdK School of the Arts in Zürich.
She also co-founded and continues to help lead the ExpoTranskultur Verein www.expotranskultur-ch.org, an organization in Zürich that focuses on reflecting on and fostering dialogue about migratory issues, such as adaptation and change, through artistic and other perspectives. ExpoTranskultur Verein won the second place on the Integrationspreis Kanton Zürich in 2014.
Marina Grzinic/ Aina Smid/ Zvonka Simcic - Images of Struggle / Decoloniality
Curated by Alejandro Mondria
Video, 30.00 min., color and b/w, sound, 2011The video-film Images refers to explicit and implicit antagonisms and differences in global capitalism. "Underdevelopment," which is today the main matrix of coloniality, receives harsh criticism. What we call democracy is actually a state of emergency. We can achieve a utopia today but it is called globalization, it is called late capitalism. Life and resistance, with questioning struggle and solutions to the neoliberal global capitalist exploitations.
The video film is a visibility of the im/possibility; A crossroads of a terrible situation that is at once that of "the speed of light (technology)" AND "the illegal products of capitalism. " The products are we, you, me, us and the world.
Marina Grzinic
is a philosopher,theoretician and artist from Ljubljana. She is one of the major contemporary theoretical and critical figure inSlovenia.[1] Since 1993 she is employed at the Institute of Philosophy at the Scientific and Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts (short ZRC-SAZU in Slovenian and SRC-SASA in English). Today she holds a position of professor and research adviser. For her scientific work she has received the Golden SASA sign in 2007. She is as well Full Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria from 2003.She publishes extensively, lectures worldwide and is involved in video art from 1982.
Decocoon Alberto Ruano + Magdalena Ostrokolska - Sag-Es-Box
Curated by Eleonora Stassi
DECOCOON (https://decocoon.wordpress.com/) - "Sag-es-Box" live posting installation
Decocoon are Alberto Ruano and Magdalena Ostrokolska. The artist duo conceives interdisciplinary projects that involve theater, visual arts, performances and social practice, where daily life myths are deeply investigated and critically called into question: the everyday paradigms are disassembled, meticulously refurbished and then exposed to the (virgin) eyes of society.
Within the project "HEY!" (https://decocoon.wordpress.com/), the artists attempt to bring the citizens of Zurich back from the digital space to the analogue world through open Live-Performances. The "Sag-es-Box" is an itinerant installation that in the next weeks moves around the city to collect "real" impressions of the citizenship (live-posting) out of digital social networks. The collected material is going to be staged and anonymously reported in public spaces during the next steps of the project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L0mW9jrvjg&list=PLBJ_j4pVxjEMk_3_VwXIrFu8Spq_7Aj_l&index=2
Sag-es-Box at Museum Bärengasse
23rd January 6 to 8 pm
31rst January 2 to 5 pm
A Performative Piece by Nicole Bachmann
Curated by Nadja Baldini and Agustina Strüngmann
Date: Finissage CONTROL / SHIFT / PLUS, 20th February 6-9pm.
Bachmann employs text as a base for her performances, as a structure and medium- text is the backbone of her work. Text is presented in several formats: audio works, performances, text installations, and as a neon piece in the case of this exhibition. By exploring these different mediums, she aims at investigating the process of transformation that a text can undergo: from script to reading, to exhibition, to performance, to print. There is a translation from one medium to another. All of these mediums entail a performativity - the performative act is therefore an investigation into how meaning can be transformed and constructed through the speech act and the voice.
Each member of the audience creates its own world through the set of utterances Bachmann exposes, an imaginary space outside the work. This gives a poetic dimension to her work.
With this exhibition we want to explore the passage from script to reading and from reading to performativity. The passage from one stage to another requires activation. Turning on the neon light will enhance the aesthetic quality of the text and ultimately activate the piece's performativity.
Nicole Bachmann is a Swiss artist based in London and Zurich. Bachmann studied Fine Art at Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland, and completed an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK. Her recent shows include Objective Considerations at MOT International project, London, 2014, I take an empty stage and call it a bare stage at The New York Art Book Fair, MoMA, 2014, Swiss Art Awards, Basel, 2014. Forthcoming project: Performance as Publishing at Printroom, Rotterdam NL, April 2015.