ANLAGE. Archiv für transakustische Vermutungen", installation, text, sound, video, 2009
Vienna based artist Nikolaus Gansterer is building a multi-dimensional knowledge structure on site that is occupied with the question of the saving, readability and transmission of information. The starting points for the installation are lectures, texts, statistical data and info-graphics that he collects, maps and processes. The process-oriented model situation reflects cultural mechanisms of translation in the form of a space-filling cartography. On 31.1., the archive will be dynamised and put into operation in the course of a performance by the Vienna Institute for Transacoustic Reseacrh, of which Gansterer is a co-founder.
Nikolaus Gansterer [AT]
1974 Born in Klosterneuburg, Austria. Lives and works in Vienna. Nikolaus Gansterer studied Intermedia art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and finished his post-academic studies at the Jan van Eyck Academie, in the Netherlands. Currently he is teaching at the Institute for Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
Since 1998 Gansterer has been occupied with several on-going projects that explore the "transacoustic". He co-founded the
Institute for Transacoustic Research and the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra.
His visual work deals with mapping processes of invisibility, often also in the context of performative acts. In his installation works Gansterer focuses on the translation of processes emerging out of cultural and scientific networks. By rejecting a strict differentiation of these two areas and through a consequent recombination of methods and settings from both fields he arrives at unique lines of connection and division questioning the imaginary threshold between nature and culture, religion, art and civilization.
Some recent exhibitions and presentations of his work include
Living and Working in Vienna II at Kunsthalle, Vienna; Sonar Festival, CCCB, Barcelona;
Moving Patterns, ACF, New York;
Trichtlinnburg, Salzburger Kunstverein/ JVE Maastricht/ CCA Tallinn;
Architecture of Interaction, Chisenhale Gallery, London;
Hard Rock Walzer, Villa Manin, Udine;
Potential Dialogues, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing;
Wrong time, Wrong place, Tent, Rotterdam;
Take Off, OK - Centre of Contemporary Art, Linz;
The Stone Road, KHEX, Vienna and at Argos, Brussels.
> www.gansterer.org
> See also > PRESENTATIONS OF THE WORKSHOPS
