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Podcast with Wolfgang Zinggl

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:09:00 +0000

Wolfgang Zinggl is a Member of Parliament of Austria and the spokenperson for arts and cultural policy for the Green Party, but before these (in his own words) an active member of socially engaging artist group WochenKlausur that he founded in 1993 and exhibited in Venice Biennale in 1999. Stepping on both tracks of art and politics, Zinggl talks about how he has become politician from a State Curator and an art critic. Recorded on August 19, 2009, 39 min., English. Listen

Muse March 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:59:00 +0000

Asian Art News May/June 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:37:00 +0000

(Inter)Viewing Possession

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:16:00 +0000

My new site-specific project is now being exhibited at the Asia Art Archive. Probably it is the most difficult to explain about!

About (Inter)Viewing Possession

Process:
A group of interviewers were recruited to interview people from the neighbourhood about their treasurable possession. The artist listened to these audio recordings and transcribed/rewrote them into a series of monologues. Then the artist also interviewed the interviewers and has written another set of monologues about their experience and memory of the previous interviews. All the monologues were compiled and edited into eight pairs. Finally the artist read them together with his long time collaborator Sara Wong as the voice over of totally eight channels of video of slow panning motion of the close-up image of the windows from the buildings around. Eight video-viewing stations have been made and set against the cityscape as the backdrop of the installation.

Keywords:
Colonial The Asia Art Archive which houses the project is located in Possession Street that was extended from the waterfront where the British army landed in 1841.
Urban The location and the nature of the space where we are based.
Art In the name of art we begin to think beyond what we see and experience.
Observation The basic activity when encountering something unfamiliar, but perhaps we can also observe the familiar for something different. In addition, I imagine the AAA as an observation platform, a place to see how other see.
Tourist One becomes tourist to re-visit his/her home hoping to see something new. It is natural to see tourists in the observation platform.
Gaze/view Gaze is more dominant than view.
See/seen As said, we see how people see.
Photography It is this gaze for sure whereas our naked eyes always scan.
Value I try to learn about subjective value. It is the value being described but not to be justified.
Introspection When we start to talk to ourselves, pretending to talk to others….
Connection It is interesting to see how people can be connected, especially if invisibly. There is now connection between the AAA and its neighbours not because of their proximity…. Seeing is the link which is invisible.
Seeing It is a subjective act. No one else can really see if one really sees.
Voyeurism A voyeur sees another voyeur.
Private/pubic It is a performance which negotiates these two realms.
Community I am not sure. Or could there be a community that its members share views or have opposite views?
Fictional There are facts but no fact is identified. Or it simply does not matter one talked about facts in these interviews.
Interview The view in between, or views between two persons.
Monologue The subject is I.
Dialogue I and I.
Shift Still image in motion.
Windows The opening to go in but not to come out.
Process/medium The way to talk is more interesting than what to talk. My role somehow is also like a medium that might be tempted to take over.
Transcribing It is a creative process to turn from what you listened into somewhat you would like to read.
Reading It is not role-playing but to replace someone’s presence with your own voice. That is to possess.
Image We keep telling the reality is the substance which is far more important but we still like to treasure the image because it looks better than the reality.
Imagine However, the best image only exists when it is invisible.
Opposite field Il contro campo where we see each other, like the photographer and the photographed but their roles can be swapped.
Relational It is a trendy word.
Identity Something we do not really need but I. We better subvert it.

Emil Goh

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:18:00 +0000

Just got a sad news from Wendy Gan about Malaysian Chinese artist Emil Goh:
"Emil passed away suddenly on the morning of 7 September 2009 in Seoul. He had a seizure of some kind in the morning. The ambulance was called but his heart had stopped beating by the time the ambulance reached the hospital. His girlfriend was by his side.
This has been a huge shock. He was still young and with no health problems that we knew of. We do not yet know what exactly happened.
I hope you will remember him for the enthusiastic foodie and wonderful artist and designer that he was. He had a keen eye for the mundane but quirky beauty of small things and his vision, his sense of humour and his mind that bubbled over with intellectual curiosity and delight in the world will be sorely missed by all of us."

Our last meal in Seoul when I was there in 2008. Emil sitting behind the Korean bbq.

Podcast with Stephan Lugbauer

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:44:00 +0000

Saprophyt/ Installation view Jenni Tischer, Alle eure Farben, June 2009

Saprophyt is a very new art space founded by two young Austrian artists, Barbara Kapusta and Stephan Lugbauer in Vienna in August, 2008. Someone says artist-run initiatives are like generational phenomenon and almost all ambitious artists in the beginning of their career would similarly make their own space. Stephan Lugbauer talks about his ideas and thoughts about Saprophyt, named after a kind of fungi which live on dead matters. 51 min, English.
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Depot of Disappearance

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:34:00 +0000

Depot of Disappearance is a text-based installation that addresses issues of memory, space and cultural policy. It takes as its focus an independent arts organization, Depot, which was located in the MuseumsQuartier during 1994-2001. Fragments of personal memory and knowledge (or ignorance), be they contradictory or consistent, of Depot during this period from diverse individuals collectively suggest a metaphor for the independent cultural development in the times of socio-political changes. To recall the immediate past is neither a relief from fear of disappearance or a pursuit for nostalgia. Instead, it is to contemplate disappearance in its own right. In fact, Depot continues to exist behind the MuseumsQuartier today.

Lisa Devereux Kernan

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:59:00 +0000

I know so little about film. When I was searching for those speakers who gave talks in Depot, Vienna 10 years, Lisa Devereaux Kernan was one of them. I googled her in the hope to get her email contacts to ask her for memory sketches of Depot. But the first page I got about her was in memory of her. Suddenly a very strange sense of time came to my mind, something really really intense.

MuseumsQuartier

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:04:00 +0000

It happened that《二十一世紀》the magazine published by Chinese University was editing an essay on cultural districts by Desmond Hui and looked for illustrations. As I am doing the artist-in-residency at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, I served as a volunteer photographer. A bit touristic in terms of the atmosphere, I guess that's the planner of the WKCD would also like to make! But here many are also locals.

The Death of Audience

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:14:00 +0000

A great exhibition at Secession in Vienna at the moment was carefully studied and curated beyond the conventionally western-euro-centric perspective of Conceptual Art from the 1960s & 70s. Amazing to see conceptual art practices in back then communist countries. Also for the first time I learnt about Filipino artist David Medella who did very interesting work already in the early 70s.

Podcast with Dominik Portune

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:11:00 +0000

A brief introduction of Depot, an independent organization promoting knowledges and debates of art and culture within a greater context of civil society in Vienna by its present team member Dominik Portune. English, 15 min. Listen

Podcast with Davide Quadrio

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:00:00 +0000

Davide Quadrio, also known as Dadou in China, speaks about BizArt, an independent art organization that he co-founded eleven years ago, and his experience in China. It's an interview made on March 13, 2008 when the commercial development of Chinese art was still burning hot. English, 50 min. Listen

Seoul

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:36:00 +0000

Back track Lee Ka-sing

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:12:00 +0000

Morning

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:07:00 +0000

Frank Gehry

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:43:00 +0000

I have never been a fan of Gehry but it was my first time to see his built project in person in Toronto. It's the renovation and extension of the Art Gallery of Ontario which was only opened to public last autumn. People said the AGO only had a rather small budget for Gehry to achieve a very spectacular outlook as usual. So ironically the revamp of the gallery space is kinda modest, nothing overwhelming. The additional 2 floors are solely for contemporary art collection which is interesting. My favourite area in terms of architectural space is the gallery behind the new façade. But I guess the "centrepiece" for most people would be the main staircase which is beautiful anyway.

Toronto: the morning

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:23:00 +0000

Around 7am on April 21, after 3 movies: Harvey Milk, Gran Torino & The Diary of Anne Frank; 2 meals and 3 hours of sleep, I arrived in Toronto. Slightly jamming in the traffic, I saw this blue sky above the lakeside. Obviously a lot of people drive in Toronto but this blue seems not really affected. Maybe because of the longitude of the city in up north, sun was so low in the morning, attributing to this colour?! I remember Beijing got that too some days in spring when the pollution had a pause.

Leung Chi Wo LOOP Chi Wo Leung

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:52:00 +0000

ifa-Galerie Stuttgart - Das Paradies ist anderswo - 17. April bis 16. Juni 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:24:00 +0000

Living sculpture watching Victoria

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:25:00 +0000

Artist statement at one point

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:48:00 +0000

Keywords: time/ space/ negative/ negated/ invisible/ overlooked/ ignorable/ camouflaged/ illegitimacy/ city/ urban/ habitat/ resident/ physical/ cultural/ political/ historical/ sarcastic/ irony/ banal/ poetic/ search/ research/

Moon of Victoria

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:16:00 +0000

I have just done a very simple work for A.I.T. Tokyo.

Podcast with Zoe Butt

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:59:00 +0000

Slowly catching up with all those interviews that I did last year, I upload here the one with Zoe Butt, Director of International Programs at Long March Project conducted on March 14, 2008. She talks about generally Long March Project and her rather new position back then. Possible changes of Long March Project are also mentioned in it, now somehow as a note to the recent closure of its two of three galleries. English, 52 min.
Zoe also co-curated Time Ligaments, opening this Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery Art Projects in Chai Wan.
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Cemeti closing

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:29:00 +0000

Surprise but not surprising! Cemeti Art House will be closed this summer. We talked about that a year ago in an interview.

View from 1927, Stuttgart

noreply@blogger.com (Studio bbq) — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:35:00 +0000