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In conceptual art, art becomes a Trojan horse: an unexpected, sometimes subversive, means of creating ideas in the mind of an audience. Meet artists who have copyrighted their own mind, let the world send messages to US & UK spies, sold real estate in the extra dimensions of space-time, hired people to live the same lives across the world, & attempted to genetically engineer God.
As part of our current exhibition, Mental Work, we present artists with strategies that dismantle boundaries between art & society, which aims to open up new thoughts to grasp today's world. Through such thought experiments, the audience become actors, exploring the boundaries between performance & spectacle. No recording is allowed: be there to get a glimpse into the secrets of conceptual art practices.
Program
6pm - doors open 6:30pm - stories & concepts 6:45pm - discussion 8:00pm - reception 8:30pm - doors close
Bios
Mathias Jud Mathias Jud, of the artist duo Wachter & Jud, were both born in Zurich & live & work in Berlin. The pair are professors at the Weiensee Academy of Art Berlin, have participated in international exhibitions & have been awarded international prizes. Their art works include open-source projects that uncover forms of censorship of the Internet, undermine the concentration of political power & even resolve the dependency on infrastructure. The tools, provided by the artists, are used by communities in the USA, Europe, Australia & in countries such as Syria, Tunisia, Egypt, Iran, India, China & Thailand. Activists even participate in North Korea.
Florence Jung The main subject of Florence Jung'swork can be pictured as a guy who comes home & is suddenly overwhelmed by doubt. That slamming door, the now-erased graffiti which had once stated that "something is missing", those suspicious official excuses, this agreement that people sign to take on their own role. Taking a Mythos beer out of the fridge he wonders: - Can uncertainty be considered belief? Florence Jung slips experimental fictions into real life, in the manner of a film-maker who would not film. Nobody knows where it begins or ends. Only the doubt - that is gradually infused into the head of the spectator - remains. Florence Jung lives in Amsterdam, where she is artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. She was awarded the Swiss Performance Prize in 2013 & the Swiss Art Award & the Dr. Georg & Josi Guggenheim Prize in 2017.
Jonathon Keats Acclaimed as a poet of ideas by The New Yorker & a multimedia philosopher-prophet by The Atlantic, Jonathon Keats is an artist, writer & experimental philosopher based in San Francisco & Northern Italy. His conceptually-driven interdisciplinary projects explore all aspects of society through science & technology. In recent years, he has installed a camera with a thousand-year-long exposure - documenting the long-term effects of climate change - at Arizona State University; opened a photosynthetic restaurant serving gourmet sunlight to plants at the Crocker Art Museum; exhibited extraterrestrial abstract artwork decoded from Arecibo Observatory radiotelescope data at the Judah L. Magnes Museum; & applied quantum mechanics to banking - coaxing money into a quantum superposition to be shared by everyone - at Rockefeller Center. Others TBC.
Partners
The swissnex San Francisco edition of Mental Work & related programming is made possible thanks to the generosity of theBertarelli Foundation,which tackles some the biggest challenges in neuroscience & marine conservation. Based in Switzerland, it supports research at Harvard Medical School andCampus Biotech,a neuroscience center in Geneva established by the Bertarelli family, the Wyss Foundation, the Ecole polytechnique fdrale de Lausanne (EPFL), & the University of Geneva. Part of theSwiss Touchcampaign, Mental Work receives additional support fromWearable Sensingandthe Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
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