Installing Ceiling Cat!
…at Kunstverein Wolfsburg, for the show “Waffle Falling Over – Internetmeme, Kulturalisierung des Gewöhnlichen“
Waffle Falling Over Ceiling Cat
May 10th, 2017
Art & Protest on Frieze
April 18th, 2017
We’ve been invited by Frieze magazine to contribute to this month issue: “How Important is Art as a Form of Protest?”. For our contribution we hired several, anonymous, crowdsourced workers through an online marketplace and asked them to protest in front of their webcams. We do not know who or where they are, and we couldn’t ultimately predict what would result from our request. We couldn’t disagree more with some of the protesters, particularly those sympathetic to the US president, and yet we could not ignore them. Maybe the internet itself has become a form of protest to preconceived ideas of class, public space and employment?
A Walk in Fukushima at Art in General
April 17th, 2017
Photos of our event “Don’t Follow the Wind: A Walk in Fukushima”, at Art in General, thanks for coming over and watching our 360 video. Hosted by Laurel Ptak, all photos by Kota Takeuchi.
Dark Content at the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne
April 9th, 2017
Photos of three works installed in London
April 8th, 2017
Here are some photos of three works of ours – Catt, Stolen Pieces and Darko Maver – installed in the group show “Looking at one thing and thinking of something else, Part Four: Disrupt / Disorder / Display”, at Carroll / Fletcher, London. The large, framed prints feature the photos of the Stolen Pieces fragments, while the smaller, unframed photos feature either us taking the piece, or the original work, before and after our intervention. The vetrine contains all the 50 fragments.
Image search result for “Censorship” at Société
April 7th, 2017
New work now on view at Société, Brussels, for the show Modus Operandi, it’s titled “Image search result for ‘Censorship’ printed on various objects by online services”, it’s the same image printed on a bath mat, postage stamps, pacifier and glass cutting board paddle.
Collab with David Horvitz for Printed Matter
April 5th, 2017
Mail art project collab with the amazing David Horvitz for Printed Matter. He invited different artists to create text and image works, which he then cut into rubber stamps. Artworks will be stamped onto all outgoing mail order packages as part of a “distributed exhibition” which traces the shape of Printed Matter’s mail order activity and the artists’ book community at large, through the postal service. Our contribution is a .onion URL…
Image Search Result for “Deepweb”
March 16th, 2017
Image search result for “Deepweb” printed on various objects by online services
2016
Print on swim shorts, eraser, throw blanket, phone cover
Exhibition view, Carroll / Fletcher, London
Nothing to Hide? The Others
March 14th, 2017
Our work The Others installed for the show Nothing to Hide? Art, Surveillance, and Privacy, at Real Art Ways. Show is co-curated by Edward Shanken and Jessica Hodin, and features lots of friends: Aram Bartholl, Paolo Cirio, Hasan Elahi, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Jonas Lund, Julian Oliver, Trevor Paglen, Ryder Ripps…
“The artworks in the exhibition offer probing insights into our complicity in surrendering privacy, how surveillance culture impacts our daily lives, the banality and uncanniness that it can generate, and forms of resistance that range from invisibility to hyper-publicity.”
Trolling on eBay
February 27th, 2017
Need a toothbrush holder?
New work experiment up on eBay! Will be produced only if purchased ;)
“Image Search Result for ‘trolling’ printed on various objects by online services”
2017
Print on leggings, neoprene laptop sleeve, toothbrush holder and soap dispenser set.
For our ongoing series, Image Search Result (2014–), each work produced is entirely outsourced to online custom printing services. We use search terms from our personal browsing history, and select the first image that the search engine yields for that term. We then upload it on various custom printing services. Typically the objects are delivered directly to the exhibition once they are produced. In this case, the objects will not be produced unless they are bid on and purchased.
This piece is part of #exstrange a live exhibition that uses eBay as a site for curatorial operation and artistic production.