Notes from the post-spaces
The aim of the project Notes from the post-spaces is to highlight the pointlessness of the production of the artworks themselves. This is because production is an essential element of the capitalist system, even in the case of artefacts. The main motifs of the installation Notes from the post-spaces become the deconstruction of the found object and the search for the meaning of the word readymade in its structure, a structure where artificial matter becomes the base for grasping the meaning of the matter, specifically the meaning of the word “damage”, whereby the given attribute becomes essential to the matter. Notes from the post-spaces become notes to the pre-space or post-space. Both components are worn out, and destroyed by the constant exchange of artefacts.
Notes from the post-spaces are thus notes on post-art, post-capitalist times occurring in the post-space. The fragmentation of today’s post-period and our existence in it is manifested through scraps of photographic material or pieces of styrofoam. The viewer thus becomes a post-observer in the post-studio. Dematerialization is manifested precisely in its opposite, in the analysis of the matter. Paradoxically, this points to the importance of the matter in the sphere of post- conceptual art. Post-space is also a response to the existence of hyperobjects, it is the destroyed space of our planet. It makes no sense to occupy it with artefacts and produce more artworks. The aim of working with post-space and its supply lies in the recycling of material, the creation of an artefact out of an already existing artefact, and thus the creation of a post-artefact.
Styrofoam, destroyed brick, thread, unmounted table, UV LED Box for cyanotype, chalk, instant drying ceramic matter, sound is available through headphones
Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2023
Notes from the post-spaces, sound, 1 min 43 sec
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