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overflowan experiment

overflowan experiment

with

Birthe Blauth

Carlotta Brunetti

Judith Egger

Suzon Fuks & James Cunningham

Peter Gregorio

Lin Weilung

Jarek Lustych

Susanne Pittroff

Michaela Rotsch & Kadir Fadhel

toffaha

Wang Teyu

curated by Cornelia Osswald-Hoffmann

Art is playing around with boundaries and breaking

out of them. It acts in a semi-natural, semi-

empirical way, it acts by chance, without control,

spilling over, knowing no bounds, with daring.

It is substantiated by materiality (digital or

analogue), by experience and by artistic ability.

It calculates the opportunities and risks of the

“overflow” and takes part in both at the same time.

Art determines where social, political, commercial

… developments escape control and surf in the zone

of the “overflow”. Art reserves the zone with the

foaming white horses for itself. As long it can

keep itself on the surface, as long as that surface

doesn’t disappear, it can ride along on a euphoric

wave. The danger of disintegration and collapse is

always there.

OVERFLOW consists of a broad sample of artists, curators and scientists

from different continents (Europe, Asia, America, Australia), who are

studying the process of flowing. It is an interdisciplinary, cross-

disciplinary and overlapping team. The disciplines are not necessarily

separate, nor are they unique. A pattern emerges out of artists’ walk,

performance, reading aloud, installation and presentation.

overflow

dr. cornelia osswald-hoffmann

Birthe Blauth

White Noise / 2011 / video 09:39 min / still

Hamlet‘s Mill / 2012 / video 61:00 min / still

Carlotta Brunetti

Fisherie / video 17:20 min / stills

“Overflow” takes place when one - or more –

elements immanent in a system plays a bigger part

than intended and bursts out. In order to chan-

nel the “overflow”, drainage schemes are developed

which define their boundaries and work out how

they are likely to move. Natural, self-examining

processes will thus be simulated and distilled

into a dramaturgy. The plan for the process will

be carried out in parallel with the actual process

(the flow of the river, the osmosis of the cells,

the social explanations for which there are no

words, etc) and they will only affect each other

at certain points. The actual process is not

concerned with its dramaturgy. It flows blind-

ly away. The dramaturgy helps to make the process

look tangible and therefore controllable and thus

calculable.

Judith Egger

Dissolution / 2011 / digital photografie / 60 x 85 cm

Life goes on / 2012 / temporary installation

Hundun / 2016 / performance and installation / sound composition: Neele Hülcker

Suzon Fuks & James CunninghamFLUIDATA Performances

Peter Gregorio

Deconstructed Architectural Image Layered with π [11,111 digits]

84x84in UV Transfer, Acrylic, Linen, 2016

SIN (Singularity Is Near), HD Video With Sound, Projection Variable, 2:20 Minutes, 2011

Jarek Lustych

Nuthe / sound installation

Performance

Metamorphoses / 2006

Lin Weilung

Performance

The process that simulates dramaturgy starts

with established empirical values. These

guarantee a certain control over what is taking

place. How much loss of control is needed in

order to release a self-regenerating system in

a major activity? How far can one stretch con-

trol? What factors yield their elasticity and

what kind of dramaturgy will this stretching

lead to? How much can be left to chance in

order to keep account of the loss of control or

to control the path of the “overflow”? How much

potential is there in processes which escape

control and of what does this potential consist?

Susanne Pittroff

Put Away, municipal gallery of the Kartothek Munich, 2014

Ground Adhesion, New Gallery Dachau, 2001

Echo, MaximiliansForum - Passage for interdisciplinary art Munich, 2017

Michaela Rotsch & Kadir Fadhel

BAGHDAD_POOLS

Kadir Fadhel / A Scenerie in Baghdad / 2016 / photo

Michaela Rotsch / Pool Cleaning / 2016/ video loop 15 min

toffaha

Light House / 2014 / video performance

The bridge Geffira Megalou Potamou/ 2013, 2016 / video performance

Senza piu Lontananze / 2016 / video performance

Wang Teyu

No.84 / 2016 / fabric, fans / Apartment of Art, Munich, Germany

No.85 / 2016 / fabric, fans / Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

No.88 / 2016 / fabric, fans / National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichun, Taiwan

for more information please have a look at

birthe blauth____www.bblauth.de

carlotta brunetti____www.carlotta-brunetti.de

judith egger____www.judithegger.com

kadir fadhel____www.villa-waldberta.de/en/archive/details

peter gregorio____www.petergregorio.com

suzon fuks & james cunningham____http://igneous.org.au

lin weilung____www.apartmentofart.org/artists.php?s=lin-wei-lung

jarek lustych____www.lustych.art.pl/index_pl_cv.htm

susanne pittroff____www.susannepittroff.de

michaela rotsch____www.michaelarotsch.com

toffaha: rasha ragab & christoph nicolaus____www.toffaha.org

wang teyu____www.facebook.com/teyu.wang.9

credits:

english translation by caroline gathorne-hardy

layout by birthe blauth

photos / stills by the artists

contact:

dr. cornelia osswald-hoffmann

www.repository-art.net

c.osswald-hoffmann@t-online.de

0151 15547495

participating scientists:

system biology: dr. manfred gödel, lmu munich

health sciences: dr. ildiko meny

sociology: dr. irmtraud voglmayr, university vienna

economics: N. N.