TV Gardeners
Alisa Berger, Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong, Ale Bachlechner & Jonathan Kastl & Felix Zilles-Perels
Opening: Nov 10, 2023, 7:00 pm
Duration: Nov 11, 2023 – Dec 10, 2023
Photos: Johannes Bendzulla
The exhibition "TV Gardeners" very loosely and freely associates with Nam June Paik's environment "TV Garden" (1977) and shows three contemporary video works: "Studio Hallo" by Ale Bachlechner, Jonathan Kastl and Felix Zilles-Perels , "Days" by Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard and Zayne Armstrong and "NFTURE" by Alisa Berger.
In Paik's environment, television sets and plants meet as representatives of technology and nature, coming together in a contemplative garden scene. In "TV Gardeners" the plants have disappeared and visitors are invited to follow the process of deconstructing television: Bachlechner's/ Kastl's / Zilles-Perel's and Aasgaard/ Armstrong's works expand and deconstruct studio, news, plot, characters, reference and meaning. Berger shows a reordering and demontage of image and sound in the digital data stream.
"Studio Hallo" (2018) by Ale Bachlechner & Jonathan Kastl & Felix Zilles-Perels
"Studio Hallo", a video series with 4 episodes in a 4-channel video installation, is a performative and post-documentary television format, with germs and ideas worth spreading. Television, like all mass media, mediates between individuals and their relationship to the world. The DIY mass media production "Studio Hallo" does not even treat disparate topics independently, but always in relation to other micro- or macro-sociological snippets and brings contingencies to the fore. The four episodes use the TV studio, street interviews, choreographies and documentary footage to deal with the weather, contagion, inequality, fear and the question of social participation and responsibility.
"Days" (2022) by Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard und Zayne Armstrong
Adaptable and multilingual gig economy labourers search for self-realisation — but when faced with the consequences of their ethical relativism, will they be drinking their hard-earned flat white alone... forever?
Days is a film in the form of an experimental soap opera, inspired by long-running series and how they have inadvertently produced multi-layered communities which live in between fiction and reality. At NKR, Days is presented as a multi-channel video installation within the scenography from the film featuring works by 333 Boyz (Sam Lubicz and Liam Morrison), Ulrike Buck, Bob Kil, Nicholas Korody and Elizabeth Ravn.
"NFTURE" (2023) by Alisa Berger
NFTURE is an abstract, critical exploration of the idea that blockchain technology will improve our lives. NFTURE takes the idea of the expansion of capitalism to extremes by transforming the aesthetics of blockchain technology into a psychedelic rollercoaster of emotions and possibilities in a disembodied matrix in which the exploited worker's body can completely dissolve.
