(2019) HD video, 6 min
An attempt to make sense of the self turns into an obsessive desire to take stock of the various fragemented impressions and reflections of the body in an unfamiliar environment.
ISTANBUL INVENTORY
ELUSIVE MATTER — a lesson in object literacy
(2018) HD video, 4 min
Is language an adequate tool to conceptualise stuff in the world? In the video a patronising voice lectures another on how to make sense of material objects. Since language is structured by metaphors of the body, a spatial-linguistic approach is proposed.
AFTER THE PARTY
(2018) HD video, 7 min
»After The Party« is a lament over the loss of certainty. In the video a nostalgic voice mourns a bygone era: a time before humans were bereaved of their mastery and it seemed still possible to neatly divide the world into observing subjects and objects of observation.
HAUTE KANTÁR
HAUTE KANTÁR is a collaboration with jewellery designer Philipp Eberle.
Wearing a piece of this collection means to temporarily sacrifice at least one of the five senses. The human body, centre of subjective experience as well as object to the gaze of the other, is simultaneously acknowledged and impaired.
THE ALIEN OBJECT MANIFESTO
(2016) HD video, 5 min
Building on the tradition of artist manifestos this video employs the many-voiced pronoun WE to express thoughts about subject-object relationships and gives a defiant defence of the commodity against the return of the hand-made.
The Ease of Handling
The Ease of Handling is a multi-media installation showing a series of looped videos on iPads attached to glass screens. A pair of gloved hands strokes a selection of objects, an act equally evocative of art handling, pantomime and the fetish of subject-object relations.
The Occasional Table Series
(2014) fine art inkjet prints, 40 x 30 cm
Everyday objects covered with grey spray-paint look at a first glance as if they might be computer generated. Only on a closer look do small »flaws« or unevenness become visible. The misused use-objects exist somewhere on the cusp of being and seeming, between practicality and fetish.
L.M.F.A.O.
2014, video installation, 1.45 min HD video, looped, dimensions variable
The moustache of this Mona Lisa reveals itself as a caterpillar when it starts moving and crawling out of the shot. The title is Internet-slang for “Laughing My Fucking Ass Off” and puns on the original title of Duchamps moustached Mona Lisa L.H.O.O.Q..
Being an Item
(2014) wally dogs, tassels
Interior
2012
music: Tied and Tickled Trio / Aelita
Of Occasional Tables and Alternative Endings
solo show at Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, UK 2014
For this exhibition an on-going interest in domestic interiors and mundane objects is explored through the English term occasional table (a small, typically folding table with no specific function). The phrase resonates with the artist’s suspicion that an object may posses multiple states of being, independent from its common use. After all, if an object becomes a table only on occasion, what are its alternatives; what else may it be at other times?
WYSIWYG
2014, HD video, 9.18 min
In this video the loaded term creation is explored by bringing together a chatroom conversation, a 3D modelling software, an abondened house in Scotland and a 17th century print.
WYSIWYG II
(2013) wally dog, collages
Artists at Glenfiddich, installation view, Dufftown, Scotland 2013
Cabinet
Cabinet is a series of digital prints created with the 3D modelling software Sketchup. Virtual found objects were assembled to digital installations.
(2013) fine art inkjet prints, dimensions variable
