A Thing Called Nature
2018 - 2019
This project marks an investigative “extraction” of a
core question of Gerhard Liska’s response to the artistic material
presented by Paola Livorsi within PSi #25 in Calgary, Canada. This is part of
the project “Performance, Response, Extraction – Elasticity of Artistic Research. A project of the Artistic
Research Working Group of PSi (2019).”
“A Thing Called Nature” is an ongoing painting series that
investigates nature as performative agency, decolonized medium, and carrier of
anthropocenic ecocide. With/In the paintings, the meaning of appropriation is
renegotiated, and the unconscious strata of ecological trauma become opened and
invoked. In reference to Jan Verwoert, the question arises as to whether dead
material is really dead and if its ghosts might not also be of interest to the
living. Which methodologies and practices do we have to apply in facing the
sixth mass extinction to connect with our non-ego(s) and the planetary subreal strings, to establish a humane
praxis of wit(h)nessing (Bracha Ettinger), and to unfold a (post-)anthropocenic, feminine-based paradigm of non-reductionist love?
A Thing Called Nature
2019 – ongoing
Biosphere on canvas
each ca. 190 x 120 cm
On show at the exhibition “Kunstraum Steiermark 2019” at the Neue Galerie Graz between December 12, 2019 and January 12, 2020.
© Exhibition photos: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Gerade diese alltäglichen Dinge
2016 - 2018
Gerade diese alltäglichen Dinge
2016 – ongoing
Acryl-cellulose and emulsion on canvas
each ca. 190 x 120 cm
Untitled (Landscapes #1 - #4)
2015
Untitled (Landscapes #1 - #4)
2015
Asphalt, emulsion, acryl-cellulose on canvas
each ca. 90 x 90 cm
Platten
2014 – 2015
Platten
2014 – 2015
Acryl-cellulose on paper
each ca. 90 x 69 cm or 180 x 180 cm
Heimatstädte
2015 – 2016
