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KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH - Room for Manoeuvre
four vehicles: white_sovereign, passion_cleaner, tiger_stealth,
blackbenz
October 5 - 27, 2006
Curated by
Andreas
Broeckmann and Stefan Riekeles (assistant)
You are kindly invited to
attend the opening on Thursday, October 5th at 8 pm
Pre-opening
performance: ©kuc Gallery, Tuesday, October 3 at 9 pm:
EIKO - BEYOND THE PINK REALITY
www.joanaaderi.com
The exhibition 'Room for Manoeuvre' is the new solo-show of
the artist group Knowbotic Research (KRcF), known for their
advanced network and media works since the founding of the
group in 1991. In a specially designed audio-visual
installation including four video projections, 'Room for
Manoeuvre' presents four of the 'vehicles' that Knowbotic
Research have developed for their current projects, and
places these vehicles in a series of hypothetical scenarios.
The exhibition explores the meaning of codes and actions in
public spaces. It proposes possibilities for acting through
strategies of transcoding in these spaces of power, of
scientific knowledge, of surveillance, and spaces of
migration. Going beyond these possibilities, the show
suggests to the audience that such 'vehicles'
might in fact be used for other, self-designed strategic
purposes.
The projects "naked bandit / here, not her / white bandit"
(2004/05), "Passion 5" (2005), "be prepared! tiger!" (2006)
and "BlackBenz Race" (2006-) use different vehicles to act
as catalysts for such transcodings: in the first case it is
an autonomous flying robot which produces technologically
coded forms of sovereignty under the conditions of a (university)
research laboratory; in the second case, a street cleaning
machine clears up the petrified political passions of a May
demonstration; the amateur-built stealth boat, invisible for
radar, processes the intercultural translations between the
US stealth bomber and the tactical speedboats of the Tamil
Tigers; and in a car race, a caravan of black Mercedes cars
traverses the translocal conditions of the Albanian space of
migration. The term transcoding describes the translation of
abstract facts and conditions which usually evade public
representation, into temporary visibilities that can be
dealt with. These facts cannot be described by simple
representations in clearly defined, local contexts, but
require networked scenarios within which they can be
reflected and acted upon.
In the exhibition, some original vehicles (white_sovereign,
tiger_stealth) are on display, as well as the 'Adaptation KITs'
with which normal vehicles can be transformed into passion_cleaners
and blackbenz. The atmospheric and metaphorically rich short
film loops were shot and edited by Simon Jaquemet. They are projected in four separate rooms of the
gallery, each showing one of the vehicles in action,
pointing to potential applications that they can be put to.
Brochures and printed tableaus offer information about the
vehicles in the form of manuals through which their usages
can be further explored. A specially designed sound
environment developed together with Roly Roos and Joana
Aderi traverses the entire gallery and sends echoes and
acoustic reverberations of the different projects
through the exhibition space.
The text publication
accompanying the exhibition includes essays by Andreas
Broeckmann, Stefan Riekeles, Giaco Schiesser, Sabine Schmidt,
Felix Stalder, Stefan Wagner, and Knowbotic Research.
Exhibition by Knowbotic Research (Christian Hübler,
Alexander Tuchacek, Yvonne Wilhelm) in collaboration with
Simon Jaquemet, Roly Roos, Joana Aderi, Peter Sandbichler,
Yannick Fournier.
Production: ©kuc Gallery in cooperation with Knowbotic
Research
More about the group:
http://www.krcf.org
Project supported by:
Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council
Bundesamt für Kultur BAK - sitemapping
Kunst Öffentlichkeit Zürich
'PubliCity' - 29. Duisburger Akzente
Kulturforum der Österreichischen Botschaft Laibach
Ljudmila -Ljubljana Digital Media Lab
The programme of ©kuc Gallery is funded by the Ministry of
Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Cultural
Department of the City of Ljubljana.
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