A Speech Organ, 2008
(together with Istvan Ist Huzjan)
Installation, variable dimensions, wood, electronics, metal, sound, ed. 1
Performative installation – speech machine – build out of the components of fourteen classical organs. The central construction is connected to a computer systhem and a sound amplifier with speakers. Each key of the organs, is connected to a digital sound file – when a key is stroked, the sound file is activated and a word is pronounced through the speakers. There are one thousand keys to use, each corresponding to one thousand sound files, which in turn, correspond to the one thousand most commonly used words in the English language. Each key of ‘A Speech Organ’ has its corresponding word printed on its surface. The one thousand words have been recorded using the voice of one of the artists. Reference: A Voice and Nothing More, Mladen Dolar
Untitled – China, 2007
Photographic series, 25 images, 100x150cm each, inkjet on paper, ed. 3
China is characterized by surplus – be it in view of the overcrowded cities or the highrise buildings that sometimes seem to never end, or regarding vegetation and the immensity of the fauna life outside the city. While formally focussing on scale, structure and medium, the images in this series talk mostly of a constant and dramatic struggle that takes place between two opposite forces: culture and nature. China, due to its extreme geography as well as to its extreme economic development, is exemplary for the battle between environment on the one hand, and humanity, on the other.
