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Sunday, November 03, 2002
RETRO FEATURE
PRESS RELEASE
Linz, 28 May 2002
THE GLOBAL COMPLEX
The Incompatibility of Perspectives
29 May - 14 July 2002
O.K Center for Contemporary Art Upper Austria
Idea: Rainer Zendron
Curators: Christa Schneebauer, Rainer Zendron
Complex and global - probably two of the most frequently used terms in television and other discussions.
Eleven exhibition projects contradictorily and subjectively confront the phenomenon of the "globalized world":
Complex refers to what is complicated, multicontextual, conjunctive. In just the same way as we perceive our present day; not the same way as it is often conveyed to us in mass media. Complex also refers to a group of buildings, a field or an area, and also to a delusion, an obsession, an inferiority complex ...
The exhibition "The Global Complex" concentrates on presenting excerpts of individual aspects of a contemporary perception of the world.
Social and political aspects of globalization are vividly demonstrated, for instance by Anne and Patrick Poirier. Their "Wargame" is not a computer game, but rather classic billiards, except that the balls and queues are assigned (with sound amplification) to different countries and ideologies in a room lined with shredded money, which turns this game into a "war game".
The artistic works of the exhibition do not aim or intend to explain all the phenomena associated with our globalized world. Instead they focus on segmentedness, partial views and subjectivity. Yet at the same time, it is important that the sum of the artistic expressions is not subsumed into a unified view of the world, but rather that the positions are maintained in all their contradictoriness.
The curators Christa Schneebauer and Rainer Zendron have invited eleven artists to take part in the show, including this years Documenta participants Renée Green and Cildo Meireles.
Artists:
Danica Dakic, Stefan Eins, Peter Friedl, Reneé Green, Jaqueline Hassink, Armando Mariño, Cildo Meireles, Matthew Ngui, Anne & Patrick Poirier, Monika Pichler, Jun Yang
The exhibition is presented in cooperation with the Grazer Kunstverein:
Exhibition
The Global Complex -
continental drift
5 June - 7 July 2002
A joint catalogue will be published on the exhibition.
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Matthew Ngui
"crystal/taste" / a work-in-progress"
Room Installation, O.K 2002
Matthew Ngui's processual work is not only an art project, but also a social and economic study, a cultural exchange at multiple levels.
During his stay of several weeks in Linz, he made contact with various companies and investigated their corporate structure, their philosophy and their environment.
His video installations in the exhibition are a collection of impressions that he gathered during his company visits and tours throughout Upper Austria. Visitors to the exhibition opening benefit from his "practice" over the course of several days in the kitchen of the restaurant "Goldener Anker". As a performance, he will cook Austrian and Asian dishes for his personally invited guests and dine with them.
*1962 in Singapore, lives and works in Perth/Australia and Singapore
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