performIC, Innsbruck Waltherpark, Samstag 27.06.09, 18:00h

The Beauty of Salix Babylonica

Ausgehend von der Einladung zur Bespielung des Waltherparks interpretiert der Kammerchor des Musikgymnasiums Innsbruck das von uns verfasste „Manifest des Öffentlichen“ in lautpoetischer Form. Die Mitglieder des Chors sitzen dabei auf der im Zentrum des Parks befindlichen Trauerweide (Salix Babylonica). Die Stimmen werden mittels im Baum gehängter Boxen verstärkt und sind über die unmittelbare Sichtbarkeit der „Klangquelle“ hinaus weithin hörbar. Die Trauerweide wird zum „singenden Baum.“

>tat ort_Manifest des Öffentlichen

After some amazing days in Innsbruck, we spend the week in Berlin, where we stay in a flat on the 15^th floor of a tower block in the Gropiusstadt, a satellite town in the southern periphery of the city, built in the late 1960s and 70s according to an initial masterplan (which was substantially altered in the course of its implementation) by the late Walter Gropius, and inhabited by nearly 35.000 people. The flat is been offered to us on invitation by pilotprojekt gropiusstadt, an Artist in Residence initiative started in 2002 and run by Birgit Anna Schumacher. The flat is given out to artists and architects from all over the world on a weekly basis and occupied almost throughout the year in order to stir fresh thoughts or short projects for an environment that is a showcase for all the problems and delights of a scheme based upon the best of intentions and all the high hopes of postwar modernist architecture.

We are happy to announce our forthcoming intervention on invitation by and in collaboration with columbosnext as part of Innsbruck Contemporary /aut, a platform that aims at creating a network of local, national, and international positions in contemporary art in relation to the location of Tyrol.

tat ort with Berno Odo Polzer, and the Kammerchor des Musikgymnasiums Innsbruck under the direction of Siegfried Portugaller

Location and Date: Waltherpark Innsbruck, Saturday June 27 2009, starting at 18:00 local time.

“Ich schlafe noch. Ich bin an einem Ort jenseits des Raumes, in einer Zeit jenseits der Zeit. Mein Körper liegt versunken, hat nicht die leiseste Ahnung von seinen Dimensionen, seiner Ausdehnung, seiner Schwere. Seiner Beweglichkeit. Noch weniger, vom Gewicht der Welt. An diesem Ort, Hier ohne Jetzt, herrscht die stumme Diktatur meiner inneren Stimmen. Seltsame Attraktoren sind das, die da herrschen: seltsame Träume. Ich träume, nein, vielmehr träumt mir, von einem unheimlichen Wortgebilde, Wortmonster, Wort… – könnte ich nur sagen, was es ist. Ich finde kein Maß für diesen Raum, den es einnimmt, ohne mir auch nur den winzigsten Anhaltspunkt zur Verfügung zu lassen. Für diesen Rhythmus, den mir meine inneren Stimmen diktieren, ohne dass ich sie jemals hören könnte. Die Attraktoren reden in Rätseln, in Bildern. Mir fehlen die Worte für dieses Gebilde, das sich fortpflanzt in mir, und von dem ich nichts weiß, als dass es sich an Worten erbaut…”

Auszug aus Living rooms, Sarah Kolb in “INWENDIG”, tat ort, Consequence Book Series, Bd.8, SpringerWienNewYork, Wien 2007, pp.56-57.

Vollständige Fassung als pdf unter >publications/INWENDIG<

Catalogue published on the occasion of the e-mobiLArt exhibition at the 2^nd Thessaloniki Biennale, featuring:

Berlinger, A., Fiel, W. & Rosenberger, T. 2009. REAL ESTATE. In: Charitos, D. ed. e-mobiLart, European Mobile Lab for Interactive Media Artists. Thessaloniki, State Museum of Contemporary Art, pp. 68-71.

Albada, D., Berlinger, A., Bernstein, J. & Fiel, W. 2009. We love the fish. In: Ibid., pp. 82-85.

2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece

As part of the group exhibition titled e-mobiLArt taking place from May 20 through to June 10 2009 in the context of the European Union project “European Mobile Lab for Interactive Media Artists,” tat ort will be presenting the results of their collaboration with Duke Albada and Jeremy Bernstein. The exhibition is organized by the State Museum of Contemporary Art and is taking place as a parallel event of the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale in Warehouse B1.

The 12 interactive installation artworks exhibited are the result of collaboration amongst 33 participating artists, supported by a team of established theorists, artists and scientists, active in the intersecting fields of art, science and technology. These artworks involve the use of interactive media, ubiquitous computing, communication networks, mobile and locative media technologies.

The e-mobiLArt project aimed at providing the 33 selected participants with a multicultural, interdisciplinary context, for supporting their collaboration and the creation of their artworks. During the first stage of the project, three workshops took place in three different European countries (Greece, Finland and Austria). In these workshops, participants formed groups and worked collaboratively for developing their projects while being provided with necessary technical, theoretical and curatorial support.

2nd thessaloniki biennale 2009

tat ort is pleased to announce the start of its mobile appliances operation by May 1 2009.

Pooling a wide range of expertise along the entire logistics chain, a set of mobile appliances will be dispatched to various urban settings around the globe in order to initiate what we call the mapping of urban dynamics. This process, based on the immediate engagement of participating individuals aims at the creation of alternative `narratives´ to what is understood as the official statistical representation of homogenised constituencies. Crosscutting the apparently irreconcilable divide between “individual” and “collective” modes of explanation, the resulting portrait exceeds the prevailing methodological opposition held by “sociology” and “economics” on either side of the discursive spectrum. The unifying principle accounts for the official point of view as much as for those developments that fall below the threshold of institutionalized mediation.

Watch out for further updates on the steps ahead.

Contributing essays in Hubert Blanz: Slide Show, SpringerWienNewYork, Vienna 2009.

About the book:

Highways that meander across the image surface. Accumulations of runways, circuit boards organized like cities, or recently rediscovered slot-car racing tracks – these are the motifs Hubert Blanz collects in his woven images. Their density is an expression of our exuberant times: These images are also exaggerated premonitions of the future that suggest the apogee of utopia hasn’t been reached yet. The larger part of the images comes from the Internet, the second world we can click through seamlessly thanks to incredibly accurate satellite images. The world is at our feet in this digital world. The new view is the view from above. The essays by Wolfgang Fiel, Ruth Horak, Florian Rötzer, Roland Schöny, Helmut Weihsmann and Margit Zuckriegl discuss the projects themselves and also take a look at parallel theoretical areas like the shifts in perception brought about by new recording techniques and the theme of the photograph as an architect.

Contributing chapter in the publication “Cartography and Art”, published within the Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography series by Springer Berlin, Heidelberg.

Wolfgang Fiel, 2009. Dream but Conflict. In: Cartwright, W., Gartner, G., Lehn, A. eds. Cartography and Art. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Verlag, pp.369-374.

The contributions in this book address the use of ‘different’ geo-communication tools that could allow for improved visualization of geography- by incorporating ART. It is envisaged that the work of this book will help to re-define how we can better visualise Space and Place, considering: Science, Technology and Art.

The book is therefore a celebration of the ‘meeting point’ between Art and Cartography. It provides a starting point for a journey that will explore innovative methods and techniques for representing our world using the complementary techniques from Art, Science and Technology.