WORKS
Gold Rush, gold leaf on paper, 15 x 21 cm, #2 of series of three uniques, 2008
RELEASE
Some 4000 CDs, collected since 2006. Installation views from the exhibition Archipelago—Splinters, Matter, and Evidence at Kunstraum Innsbruck, dimensions 6 x 9 m, 2015; and permanent installation in private collection, Berlin, dimensions 3 x 1,2 m, since 2008.
An omnipresent and soon obsolete medium for storing and safeguarding data, compact discs were the means to broadcast and encrypt information.
Round shiny objects, once treasured and protected, are now let loose and exposed. Freed from spinning drives and vaults they seemingly lost their value. Is all free information worthless?
Their shift from medium to material is also the transition from one domain to another, from private to public, object to assemblage, from one set of properties to the next—from what a thing does to what it is. In this new context the CDs transfer another information, momentary movements, lights and drifts as glistening fragments. They circulate and reflect circumstances and dynamics to become a real-time interface and a public release.
Round shiny objects, once treasured and protected, are now let loose and exposed. Freed from spinning drives and vaults they seemingly lost their value. Is all free information worthless?
Their shift from medium to material is also the transition from one domain to another, from private to public, object to assemblage, from one set of properties to the next—from what a thing does to what it is. In this new context the CDs transfer another information, momentary movements, lights and drifts as glistening fragments. They circulate and reflect circumstances and dynamics to become a real-time interface and a public release.