Werner Fenz Grant Winner_Steirischer Herbst 2024 Graz, Austria
9. April 2025
Aaugmented reality interface Organic Access as part of Steirischer Herbst 2024, the Werner Fenz Grant for Art in Public Space.
Vernissage:
27. 9.24 6pm-8pm
Exhibition:
28.9.–13.10.2024
Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00
Forum Stadtpark
Stadtpark 1
8010 Graz
Over the course of three years, Kunst Heimat Kunst unfolded as a series of interventions in different parts of the world where the invited artists resided. The idea of the project was to delocalize an art exhibition, asking artists to tap into the concept of Heimat, or the meaning they assigned to it, as an associative field.
Kunst Heimat Kunst Revisited deals with Fenz’s archive, in particular the materials related to Kunst Heimat Kunst. It revisits the traces of this project which resonates with today’s debates around identity formation and belonging, but also around Heimatlosigkeit (“homelandlessness”) and statelessness, in light of resurgent nationalisms.
Augmented Reality Interface Organic Access_ Dr. Chang Gao_2024
When shown in an exhibition space, Augmented Reality Interface Erotic Poetics invites the viewers to scan the location-based GPS QR code and interact with augumented reality interface with the background of an exhibition and public space. By observing a very slow movement of a very slowly ketchup squeezer pumping out of the squeezer, the audience’s instinctive desire, playfulness and sensuousness are meant to be provoked and released. By collaging the urban environment of Glockenspiel and Hauptplatz in Graz, the series Organic Access creates an encounter that merges the public and the private, the fantasy and the reality, the virtual and the real, locality and alienation, the homeland and homelessness.
Great pleasure to showcase artwork with such a wonderful exciting cohort of artist and performers. Salute to the curation team–what a generous endeavor and deep love toward art and culture can produce this exciting and inspiring festival.
More information:
https://www.steirischerherbst.at/en/program/events/6728/kunst-heimat-kunst-revisited
