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| Sustenazo, 2010 Multi-channel video projections, sound compositions, drawings, photography, objects. View of the exhibition "Monika Weiss-Sustenazo" at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw. |
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RECENT NEWS
Monika Weiss: Sostenuto - Transforming Intervals as part of: Consciousness Reframed: art and consciousness in the post-biological era The Planetary Collegium's 12th Annual international Research Conference Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, November 30 to December 2, 2011 Portugal hosts The Planetary Collegium's 12th Annual International Research Conference, a network of researchers focused in the crossings of art, science, technology and consciousness studies, founded by Roy Ascott. CR12 will be a three days forum for transdisciplinary discussion in Lisbon, gathering more than sixty artists, designers, architects, performers, musicians, scientists, writers and researchers from about 20 different countries including Elif Ayiter, Simona Caraceni, Blanka Earhart, Gabriela Galati, Rolf Gehlhaar, Luis Miguel Girao, John Matthias, Pam Payne, Mike Phillips, Paulo Maria Rodrigues, Tatsuo Unemi, Massimiliano Viel, and Monika Weiss. Featuring special guests Jose Manuel Anes, Lusitana Fonseca, Stephan A. Schwartz and guest artists Marta de Menezes, Leonel Moura, Antonio Cerveira Pinto e Emanuel Pimenta. Click here for more information. Paysages/Exposition de Groupe: Ivan Chuikov, Janieta Eyre, Anselm Kiefer, Ron Martin, David Rabinovich, Leslie Reid, Richard Serra, Monika Weiss Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, November 16 to December 30, 2011 From Press Release: This comprehensive exhibition deals with landscape as a theme, and builds bridges between various generations of artists with quiet intelligence and assiduous understanding of what makes good art tick. The show includes a range of artworks by Janieta Eyre, Anselm Kiefer, Ron Martin, David Rabinovich, Leslie Reid, Richard Serra and Monika Weiss. As a survey show, this one traverses generations, styles, and media. Read more here. "The Sixth Borough" at Governors Island, New York, June 5 - September 19, 2010 View press release here. "Monika Weiss: Sustenazo" at Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, March 12-May 5, 2010 View press release here. Watch video here. Read interview here. 2009-2010 Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Read more here. LINKS Artist Lecture at Laughborough University School of Art and Design, UK "Monika Weiss: Five Rivers" at Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York Selected Video Works "Forms of Classification" at Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation CIFO, Miami Monika Weiss "Anamnesis" in Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, Intellect Books, UK Monika Weiss "Krasis (Ennoia)" in New Realities: Being Syncretic, Springer, Vienna/New York ABOUT "...Monika Weiss crafts a new breed of total artwork that does not adhere to the rules. Hers is a living, breathing experience comprising mediums of drawing, video, live performance, sound composition, installation, voice and sculpture infused with history, literature, and poetry. Weiss systematically sets up the conditions of a cosmos of her own creation and then intervenes upon this configuration, using her own body and actions. She welcomes others to do the same and invites chance natural elements also to alter the system. Then she carefully modulates the visual and audio outcome, reassembling the moments and visual fragments to make something new that exceeds a neat whole." [ Read more here. ] "...This seduction to participate, having been denied the consummation of fully knowing and hence understanding, is much like the dichotomy of the human condition, whereby life is granted with awareness in varying strengths, but the reason for the gift is unexplained. It is the blind spot of Derrida, that understanding in the mind of the existence, but not being able to keep the knowledge and the experience in the field of immediate vision." [ Read more here. ] "...Sound joins the ensemble of the spatial, material and graphic worlds of Monika Weiss installations in a further complex process of editing. In her latest work, Rivers of Lamentation, vocal lines from Gluck, Monteverdi, Purcell, Handel, Bach and Part, which she altered and combined and then mirrored with their own versions, contribute to the powerful evocation of mood which characterises all her work. How to describe this quality? The musical fragments in the new work are all forms of lament and the visual associations enlarge the feeling of sorrow and loss: the fall of the body in the pieta, burial, immersion in a foreign medium." [ Read more here. ] |
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