Installation of our work No Fun at Postmasters, video running on an old laptop lying on an inflatable mattress. In the background are William Powhida’s Didactics. The exhib, opening tonight, is titled Alt-facts: “It’s not always possible to sort out fact from fiction, but to believe that everything is a lie is to know nothing.”
Ceiling Cat is watching you… Installed at Kunstverein Wolfsburg, for the show “Waffle Falling Over – Internetmeme, Kulturalisierung des Gewöhnlichen“.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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” printed on various objects by online services
2016
Print on swim shorts, eraser, throw blanket, phone cover
Exhibition view, Carroll / Fletcher, London
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.”
