Magic of Boredom
Anne Kristin Winzer  &  Özgür Erkök Moroder
Duo Exhibition @ Werkstadt    26.08. - 09.09.22

English below

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„magic of boredom“ ist die erste gemeinsame Ausstellung von Anne Kristin Winzer und Özgür Erkök Moroder. Die Arbeiten der beiden Künstler*innen sind prozesshaft angelegt. In der Woche vom 19.08. - 26.08 haben Besucher*innen die Möglichkeit, aktiv mit den Künstler*innen ins Gespräch zu kommen und einen Einblick zu erhalten.

 

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“magic of boredom” is the first joint exhibition by Anne Kristin Winzer and Özgür Erkök Moroder. The works of the two artists are designed as a process. During the week of August 19 - 26, visitors will have the opportunity to actively engage with the artists and gain an insight into their work.

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About the work

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In the course of history, drawing has been a medium that is a bridge between imagination, thinking and shared and individual realities. It's considered as a tool to express and document thoughts, imagination, experiences, explorations, inventions, ideas. A drawing is mostly the beginning of the realization of an idea. The very basic/primitive visual technology for reflecting, documenting, communicating and imagining since the cave wall paintings.

 

The artwork ”IIIII…” reconsiders the medium “drawing” in the frame of today's global socio-political environments and performs it with today’s contemporary technologies by transforming it, shifting its ground of existence. It‘s becoming a metaphor for refuge, displacement and transformation. The drawing‘s fleeing from paper and transforming from 2 dimensional marks to sculptural objects that exist in 3 dimensional space. Yet staying connected to the 2. Dimension, to the walls by their shadows. 

 

The installation consists of a 3d print drawing of a meters long queue of mini silhouettes that intersects through the room, suspended in the air, on the eye level. Waiting, connected figures with no details, no identity. 

 

Waiting is a state, right before an event occurs. Waiting is also full of possibilities, dreams and reflections about the future. Bit by bit parting from the past and stepping towards an unclear future through accumulating tension.

 

The long queue image indicates autobiographical references that are also shared experiences with so many people who are in exile, who had to flee from their home. Sharing the feelings of unclarity, insecurity, ambiguity as well as hope regarding future during the long hours in the queues in front of the borders, embassies, immigration authorities, in the airports and many other state offices. 

 

Title of the work intersects with the medium and the content of the artwork. ”IIIII…“ comes from the spoken Turkish language. It is a sound that is made between 2 words or sentences when there is a need for a short moment to think. It’s a phonetic bridge that has no meaning. As it is „umm..“ in English. As well as the written form of the sound, repetition of the letter resembles the waiting figures in the drawing.

 

In this sense the artwork invites the audience to a walk through the suspended queue drawing and intends to contemplate an emphatical experience through the medium and the imagery. It is an experience and a projection surface that triggers their individual memories as well as the shared common memories 

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Exhibition Text

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thinking in curves
with glue
praising the misremembering
adding what ifs on what ifs on
endowments and gadgets
human and machine made
poor material
there are holes and they are fringed
body extensions
undeadline dancer
re-transforming the enhanced
never ready
unfinished looks are advanced
provoking imagination
fabricating
analyzing the nonsense

 

Ausstellungsdauer: 26.08. - 09.09.2022
Eröffnung: 26.08.2022, um 18 Uhr

Öffnungszeiten
Mi - Sa, 16 - 20 Uhr und nach Absprache

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As part of the project "reboot the WerkStadt", supported by the Fonds Soziokultur with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.