PARADOXICAL OBJECTS - Video Sculpture Art From 1968 To Today

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Curated by Sue Bachmeier and Peggy Schoenegge (peer to space)

Web design by Camilla Murgia

Release date: September 24, 2021, 9 am CET

With works by Matej Al-Ali & Tomáš Moravec, William Anastasi, Emmanuel van der Auwera, Benton C Bainbridge, Frank Balve, Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, Kelsey S Brewer, Amy Cannestra, Yvon Chabrowski, James H. Connolly, Kevin Cooley, D’arcy Darilmaz, Manja Ebert, Daniel Everett, Exonemo, Stefano Fake, Ornella Fieres, Carla Gannis, James Alec Hardy, Claudia Hart, Faith Holland, Annebarbe Kau, Philipp Madörin, Marck, Alex May, Martina Menegon, Sali Muller, Juan Obando, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Monica Panzarino, Taezoo Park, Björn Perborg, René Radomsky, Allison Maria Rodriguez, Ulrike Rosenbach, Nicolas Sassoon, Ira Schneider, Sid and Geri, Ivonne Thein, Joan Truckenbrod, Maria Vedder, Andy Vible, Wolf Vostell, Peter Welz, Xuan Ye

PARADOXICAL OBJECTS - Video Sculpture Art From 1968 To Today

Peer to space’s exhibition PARADOXICAL OBJECTS is dedicated to this special construct that combines video and sculpture, embracing the temporality and dynamic of video and the static nature of the screen. Fourty-six time-based works by international artists from 1969 to today highlights the technological development and variety of artistic uses of video sculptures over the last decades. Whether closed-circuit, single or multi-channel, screens create a physical entity to display of moving images. The exhibition’s artists explore the possibilities and conditions of this disparate unity.

Full exhibition text and exhibition at: paradoxical-objects.net

Group Show Colliding Humans On How We Communicate Online

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COLLIDING HUMANS. Social Interaction on the Internet

Artists: Jonas Blume, Manja Ebert, Aron Lesnik, Lauren Moffatt

Curated by Tina Sauerlaender and Peggy Schoenegge (peer to space)

Organized by medienkunst e.V. – Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst mit neuen Medien

Opening: September 27, 2019, 7 pm  

Duration: September 28 to October 6, 2019

Artist Talk: October 2, 2019, 7 pm

(With the curator Peggy Schoenegge and the artists Jonas Blume, Manja Ebert and Aron Lesnik)

At: Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Oderstraße 34, 10247 Berlin, Germany

"Good relationships make us happier and healthier." That is the conclusion of two Harvard studies that spent 75 years researching with over 600 people what makes people really happy. But what happens to our relationships when we communicate mostly over the Internet?

Online communication bridges physical distances and connects us. We can easily send messages across continents and get an answer within a few seconds. However, the physical vis-à-vis is missing. The other's body, facial expressions and gestures are no longer part of interpersonal exchange. We are alone with the screen while interacting socially. Like a mirror, the screen echoes us back at ourselves. We share our space only with our own view of the world, while that of others remains out of sight. This one-sided perception can lead to a loss of empathy and—in the end—to disrespectful, hateful comments. As soon as we publish personal information on the Internet, we are exposed to the scrutiny of others, and on the other hand we are free to scrutinize in return.  

Read the full text here.

The participating artists are members of medienkunst e.V.

In cooperation with Raum für drastische Maßnahmen and medienkunst e.V.

Image credits: Lauren Moffatt, The Tulpamancer, 2019, immersive video installation (detail) // Jonas Blume, Rhythm Zero Los Santos, 2019, video still // Aron Lesnik, ISOLATION, 2018, video still // Manja Ebert, sleepingsquad, 2016, video sculpture // All images © the artists

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