The poet Konrad Bayer, founding member of the Viennese Group, sees language as a place of convention - a place where the individual is subordinate to both permanent and unnoticed correction by society.

Expanding on this line of thought, one can look at other, non-verbal domains such as design, architecture or fashion as means of language-like expression. The photo series “Settings” seeks to explore such ideas focussing on housing, domestic landscapes and interiors.

The elements of a total “language” are being divided and connected simultaneously , so that an intensification effect can be evoked through subtle infringements, through encroachments on neighbouring units. The signs are then no longer being conceived within their representative dimension, they represent nothing more than nothingness, they don’t depict - to a greater degree they allow for “actions”, they function like transformers that consume natural and social energies in order to produce effects of highest intensities.

Jean-Francois Lyotard, Essays On Affirmative Aesthetics

 
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Museum of Modern Art Salzburg, Austria

 
Kindly supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture.

I am organising a screening of experimental videos from Austria on the 9th of April as part of the current Node.London Spring ‘08 season of media art. More information about this event can be found here.