maverick
dal 13/11/2003 al 17/1/2004
Segnalato da
13/11/2003
maverick
Galerie Wieland, Berlin
The Boredom. A solo show featuring recent objects and mechanisms which address ideas about repetition, circulation, looping, and counting. In these objects, what at first may appear as purposeful systems and activities are often revealed as useless, self-contained and monotonous
The Boredom
Galerie Wieland is pleased to present ''The Boredom'', a solo show by maverick
featuring recent objects and mechanisms which address ideas about
repetition, circulation, looping, and counting. In these objects, what at
first may appear as purposeful systems and activities are often revealed as
useless, self-contained and monotonous.
The exhibition's central work, ''The Boredom'' (2003), is an apparatus
incorporating tubes, vessels, measuring instruments, and other devices which
together form an artificial circulatory system mimicking that of the human
organism. Arrayed in a pseudo-clinical setting, the mechanism uses 5 liters
of NaH2O as a synthetic blood substitute, carefully monitoring the solution
and keeping it at a constant temperature (37 degrees Celsius) and pH level
(7.5)‹that of the average human. This completely purposeless system is kept
''alive'' without any external influences, endlessly repeating and entirely
solipsistic.
''Pathos 2000'' (1998-2000) is a machine that counts down towards the
inevitable: an LED- device mounted in a black box digitally displaying the
remaining lifetime of the artist. Using the life expectancy for the average
Central European male--75 years (or 2,3652 billion seconds)‹as a statistical
baseline, the counting machine is like a coldly efficient momento mori. By
its uncontestable reckoning, maverick's life is already halfway over and
counting.
In an earlier work that anticipates the endless looping of ''The Boredom,''
the TV installation ''Untitled'' (1998) continuously channel surfs between
some 50 possible television programs. ''Zapping'' is an everyday activity
normally performed to find something watchable, a symptom of the
unquenchable search for some hypothetically perfect viewing experience that
is always just around the corner. In reality, it is the very embodiment of
mindless boredom, a vicious circle traced in a hell of inattention.
Opening reception: Friday, November 14, 2003, 7pm  9pm
Galerie Wieland Ackerstrasse 5 10115 Berlin
gallery hours: Wed  Fri 2  7pm, Sat 12  5pm
closed for holidays: December 21, 2003 Â January 6, 2004