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For the exhibition “Balancing through breaking brightness. Concrete depths”, the collective room69 developed a virtual environment bridging the physical space of the gallery and the virtual coordinates on Google Maps displaying a number of sculptural works, built on 0s and 1s transitioning into the real exhibition space.
room69 is an interdisciplinary art collective based in Vienna, developing progressive exhibition formats, new media arts and installations. The room69 collective consists of Hannah Neckel, Maximilian Prag, Josepha Erdbauer, Cristian Anutoiu, Lukas Dworschak, Brooklyn J. Pakathi and Roman Fleischmann.
The collective’s interests are characterised by common reflections on the complex relationship between artificial and natural worlds, socio-cultural contexts, mediating on hyper-connectivity and displaying their individual responses to notions of fluid networked systems.
Using conceptual architectural strategies to create hybridized phygital environments that bring attention to their work, the collective use this playground to evaluate contemporary digital cultures.
Each project room69 develops is an opportunity to deploy new creative tactics in playing, meshing, glitching, and re-contextualizing internet spaces as well as extending the analogue understanding.
The collective work as artists, curators, producers, and researchers, applying experimental and disruptive techniques to formulate a collaborative, open, collective-driven art practice. They operate independently, distributing roles rotationally in order to expand the definitions of artistic practice – each member has an equal and diverse function in operating the collective.
The room69 collective does not break down barriers by try to shock audience or by overcoming historical complexes. They look beyond the limitations of our physical human form and create aesthetic universes in both the analog and virtual worlds. The exhibition “Balancing through refraction of light. Concrete Depths” expands architecture into digital infinity. Inspired by the legendary parking lot at Cetinjska 15, the surrounding bars and nightlife, their virtual reality resembles a parking garage. This interstitial space is filled with sculptures that continue in their physical form inside the gallery. These places of uncertainty, an empty parking garage, leaving a nightclub just before dawn or being lost in an unfamiliar urban environment, all these emotions and references are transferred into a new dimension. Ambivalent or negative personal connotations and experiences are transformed into an environment full of dawn and tenderness. During this expedition into the futuristic unknown, the visitor encounters several sculptures and installations, artistic manifestations of the artist, created in virtual space. Not bound to any material or limited by the laws of physics, these sculptures are the definition of “L’art pour l’art”. Art for art’s sake, free from any utilitarian function.
Denis Leo Hegic and Jan Gustav Fiedler
Curators
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