ISCP Talk
July 13, 2010

Salon: Felix Burger (Germany) and Max Pam (Australia)

Felix Burger will show The Story Of My Life, a 23 minute video from 2010. “It had always been my desire to film the story of my life”, commences Burger’s autobiographical epic. “Too remarkable seemed my exuberant work, too important my artistic existence, for humanity to be deprived of it.” Felix Burger plays Felix Burger: a manic, egomaniac character and a fugitive, who on his way through his own life traverses, as it were, the époques of cinematic history. In so doing, he appears to overcome time and space effortlessly. He is an eccentric in the true sense, one who remains on the fringes because he has made himself the center of his universe and everyone else satellites. (Text by Christian Hartard)

Max Pam’s new book SuperTourist will be presented which combines his old and new work, covering both the old world (Europe) and the new (Australia). He has used a variety of media and technology – plastic cameras, saturated and overexposed colors, digital prints, color and black & white, photocopying and apparent accidents. In the words of photo critic Robert Cook, “he has used his knowledge of what it means to take a good picture to give him the latitude to take risks. Max continually encourages the viewer to interpret objects as revelatory fragments. Erotic, arch and ironic, SuperTourist takes the viewer on a journey through related arenas of travel, sex, desire and identity.”

 

Participating Residents

ISCP Talk
June 15, 2010

Salon: Nika Oblak and Primoz Novak (Slovenia) & Claudia Ulisses (Portugal)

‘The work of Nika Oblak and Primoz Novak draws parallels between a society driven by personal needs and capital and their own role as artists in the contemporary art market. Infused with humor, their work adopts the visual tactics and seductive constructions commonly employed in the mass media to lure the consumer.” Oblak and Novak have exhibited in venues such as Sharjah Biennial 9, UAE Istanbul Biennial, Turkey; Japan Media Arts Festival; Transmediale Berlin, Germany; and most recently in Biennale Cuvee, Linz, Austria. (Text by Yasmen Biag-Clifford)

Claudia Ulisses’ work focuses on social and political issues. Her critical approach, sometimes nostalgic in tone, addresses the (in)flexibilities of the human condition. She develops her work through a minute process of critical analysis, creating multidisciplinary projects with a combination of media such as photography, installation sculpture and video. The form as visual seductive device is evident, but it acts mainly as an element of subversion of reality. Representation is a way to place the viewer face to face with the disconcert and ambiguity of the iconographic discourse.

ISCP Talk
June 15, 2010

Salon: Nika Oblak and Primoz Novak (Slovenia) & Claudia Ulisses (Portugal)

‘The work of Nika Oblak and Primoz Novak draws parallels between a society driven by personal needs and capital and their own role as artists in the contemporary art market. Infused with humor, their work adopts the visual tactics and seductive constructions commonly employed in the mass media to lure the consumer.” Oblak and Novak have exhibited in venues such as Sharjah Biennial 9, UAE Istanbul Biennial, Turkey; Japan Media Arts Festival; Transmediale Berlin, Germany; and most recently in Biennale Cuvee, Linz, Austria. (Text by Yasmen Biag-Clifford)

Claudia Ulisses’ work focuses on social and political issues. Her critical approach, sometimes nostalgic in tone, addresses the (in)flexibilities of the human condition. She develops her work through a minute process of critical analysis, creating multidisciplinary projects with a combination of media such as photography, installation sculpture and video. The form as visual seductive device is evident, but it acts mainly as an element of subversion of reality. Representation is a way to place the viewer face to face with the disconcert and ambiguity of the iconographic discourse.