The Transition Show

PSG / H.R.H. Princess Sirinthorn Art Gallery

The Transition Show - Mueller & Divjak

The Transition Show – Von Müller & Divjak

THE TRANSITION SHOW – VON MUELLER & DIVJAK
PSG / H.R.H. Princess Sirinthorn Art Gallery, Nakhon Pathom, Opening: March 28th 2016

Tomorrows unitary world is in need of transcendence and liberation from a thinking in opposites. (George Czuczka)

The world is full of anxiety and of nihilistic emptiness. It is in spiritual and social crisis. What can we do about it? …

„Materialistic solutions do not work. (…) Separately and together, we may enlarge our conscious connection with the unconscious forces both in us and around us. There may lie the way out of our emptiness“, the US-Professor Ann Belford Ulanov states in the preface to a book called Imprints of the Future by Austrian emigrant George Czuczka.

„Becoming conscious of self means increased consciousness of others: self-interest becomes social concern“, she states.

Prospero, the magician and discoverer says in Shakespeares „Tempest“, when passing a door of transition: „the soul of everything living begins; where I am indivisibly this AND that.“ It´s all about awareness and connectedness, about meditation and healing and about spaces where people „can rest their minds and thoughts“ as Montien Boonma once put it.

We´re inviting you to pass the sound-installation „The Attention Gate“, which is kind of a poetic announcement for a stroll on the installation „Walk the Line“. A work of leaves, based on the idea and practice of walking meditation / Jong-Grom.
Every breath we take, every move we make is an essential part of our lives in the present. Paths of mindfulness, awareness can be everywhere. In our homes, offices, streets, museums, universities. They enfold like a rhizome as French philosophers Deleuze/ Guattari described the concept of a tree-like model for culture.

„L“ quotes and takes up the shape of Claes Oldenburgs notion of a ray gun.
A ray gun is a magical item. Everything with a right angle (the right angle is the structural principle) can be this gun, which never takes life but has an invisible energy and can penetrate everything and revive: everyday things and works of art. Important for a re-enchantment of the world, a world we can create, a world we want to live in. – „L“: like life, like love – but also like lies, …
The same work is refering to the early German art historian and cultural theorist Aby Warburg and his project and method of the „Mnemosyne Atlas“, in which he tried to focus on different cultures and searching for principles of structures within all the images and information.

„L“ is a mainly floor based phaenomenology of media related depictions of nature and life in Western and in Asian culture. Such providing a new perspective on everyday images, which are surrounding us. Using various techniques – from cut-up ready mades to collages, from colourful assemblages to slight variations of motives, working with stencils the work is discussing the cultural / media constructed status quo.
It´s about the beauty of untouched nature, the magic and the spirit of life and the idea of „the natural“, concepts of living and man made conditions of life and constructions of identities.

The participative spray-painting „Golden Years“ features artists and University staff as collaborative team: The concept sets the frame, the individual works are abstract comments. They´re all creating the big picture.

Further works feature views on the imprints of the here and now and possible transitions: In „Manna I + II“ all that remains is a text and an empty void as possible screen for projections of the reader/viewer. „Scopimera globosa – Global Media Output“ is looking for a metaphor for dealing with the contemporary information-overload and compares the media-contents to the tiny-sand-balls, made by crabs on the beach.

A separate room, which we called the „meta“-room provides information about our ongoing artistic researches and projects of the last months. (Including the collaborative work „Future Presents“, and documentations of Art & Science Talks in Nakhon Pathom and Bangkok at the Silpakorn University, and meetings & talks with artists in Myanmar.)
Interventions and works like „The Som-O-Experiment“ or „The colours of surface“ are to be experienced, both are „hands-on“-installations at the intersection of art and science. The first one based on scientific research on mirror-neurons, the second focuses on the physical reactions of different kind of liquids.

The installation „Lucky Corridor“ is made of grey cupboards by Siamese Steel and pays kind of tribute to Bruce Nauman among others. It´s settled between two stills of a 1963-TV-Talk between German philosopher Martin Heidegger and the Thai Monk Bikkhu Maha Mani, who discuss the differences between Western and Buddhist / Thai culture.
From the inner side of one cupboard you can hear a distant tune: „Dream Island“ by the Supreme Artist, His Majesty King Bhumibol. (From the year 1965). Which can be read as an echo from some far away past and a longing for an utopian paradise at the same time.

The environment „The Art Healing Project (Nakhon Pathom)“ functions like a stage for objets trouvés, playing with the notion of Arte Povera, and the idea of remastering the ready-made. It´s a set-up, in which trash, i.e. dumped / abandoned art from the garbage of the campus is given attention again.
The idea was to search and provide shelter, to restore (free it from worms and organic waste, repair it) and put it into new correlations. To recycle and respiritualize it. Such turning trashed art into conceptual art, thereby referring to what Sakarin Krue-On is calling the romantic conceptionalism.

Man made things are so fragile. And the power of nature is strong. Ars longa, vita brevis. Let´s hope that the official motto of the Silpakorn University, quoting Hippocrates, does prove right …

The global and urgent challenges of our time and societies are calling for healing on all levels.

„I used to think that the top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that within 30 years of good science we could address those problems. But I was wrong“, James Gustave Speth, an US-based environmental lawyer writes: „The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy… and to deal with those we need a spiritual and cultural transformation – and we scientists don’t know how to do that.“

May art step in? May art and science together be powerful enough to create visions and desires, which are strong enough to lead us, to support the development, evolvement and preservation of mankind on this shared home, this planet?

George Czuczka states – and thus bringing it to the point –: „Tomorrows unitary world is in need of transcendence and liberation from a thinking in opposites.“

May art contribute to open minds.

 



Future Memories

Installation - KMH, Liechtenstein

Ausstellungsansicht: Future Memories - Müller-Divjak

Future Memories ©MUELLER-DIVJAK / Bildrecht

In ihren immersiven, site-spezifischen spirituellen Szenografien setzten MUELLER-DIVJAK (Jeanette Müller & Paul Divjak) auf Reduktion und Entschleunigung. Sie laden zur körperlich-sinnlichen Erkundung von Zeit und Raum, zum perzeptiven Entdecken und Ankommen mit allen Sinnen ein. So auch mit der eigens für das KMH entstandenen Intervention FUTURE MEMORIES, in der sich das Künstlerduo mit Veränderungsprozessen, prekären Objektqualitäten, organischen Materialien im Wandel und dem flüchtigen Werkstoff  Duft beschäftigt. — mehr —


365 DAYS: LIFE MUSE

Exhibition / Model study

JANUARY 26 – FEBRUARY 25 2017
THE ART CENTRE, SILPAKORN UNIVERSITY, BANGKOK

365 Days : LIFE MUSE
Model study for Nongpo community’s foreign labours
This interdisciplinary and collaborative art project by Baan Noorg Collaborative welcomes the participation of 19 artists and researchers with its main programs including a residency program in the Nongpo community, an artist talk program and an exhibition and forum at the Art Centre of Silpakorn University, Bangkok.

Artists: Katherine Nunez, artist represented by 98B COLLABoratory, Philippines / Helmi Hardian, Tuwis Yasinta, artists represented by WAFT LAB, Indonesia / Chen Chia Jen, artist represented by Open Contemporary Art Center, Taiwan / Ma Ei, Myanmar / Okui Lala, Malaysia / Masaru Iwai, Japan / Varsha Nair, India / Wu Chi Yu, Taiwan / Henry Tan, Thailand / Preenun Nana, Thailand / Suraporn Lertwongpaitoon, Thailand / Jutamas Buranajade & Piti Amraranga, Thailand / Thatchatham Silsupan, Thailand / Korakrit Arunanondchai, Thailand / Rachan Klomklieng, Thailand

Researchers: Sebastien Tayac, France / MUELLER-DIVJAK (Jeanette Müller & Paul Divjak, Austria
Artistic researchers: Alfred Banze, Germany / Maung Day, Myanmar
Contributing writer: Rikey Tenn

Curators : jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai)
Assistant Curator : Suphitchaya Khunchamni
Project Directors : jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai)
Project Manager : Suphitchaya Khunchamni
Project Assistant managers : Thanet Subsart, Kitiwan Saneewong

Art Centre Silpakorn University, Bangkok


Hoky Poky II

Installation & partizipative Performance - Galerie Gugging

“Hoky Poky II” by MUELLER-DIVJAK, Galerie Gugging

„Through meditation and art, we can connect with our mother earth and reaffirm our cooperative nature, recognizing the environment as part of ourselves.“ (Sulak Sivaraksa)

Hoky-Poky II von MUELLER-DIVJAK (Jeanette Müller & Paul Divjak) tritt als temporäre Architektur für die Sinne mit den ausgestellten Werken der Art Brut in Rahmen der Ausstellung “type brut” in Dialog und erlaubt einen anderen Blick, eine veränderte Wahrnehmung. Die Installation thematisiert als spirituelle Szenografie Außenwelt und Innenwelt und öffnet als Stillleben der Augenblicklichkeit Raum für die Rückbindung an die Natur und mögliche heilsame wie magische und inspirierende Prozesse: Die Aufmerksamkeit gilt dem bewussten Atmen und Bewegen. — mehr —


MUELLER-DIVJAK >>> About

Müller-Divjak (Jeanette Müller & Paul Divjak)

MUELLER-DIVJAK

Die Zusammenarbeit von Jeanette Müller und Paul Divjak geht auf das Jahr 2005 zurück. Seit 2013 firmieren die beiden KonzeptkünstlerInnen, unter dem Namen MUELLER-DIVJAK. Ihre Arbeit umfasst konzeptuelle, multimediale Interventionen, ortsspezifische Installationen, Performances, Collagen, Texte und Artistic Research. Für ihre Doktoratsarbeiten erhielten beide unabhängig voneinander den Theodor-Körner-Preis für Wissenschaft und Kunst. Sie leben und arbeiten in Wien und in Südostasien.

Zu den jüngsten Einzelausstellungen von MUELLER-DIVJAK gehören u.a. Future Memories, KMH, Liechtenstein (2018), Hoky-Poky I & II, Art Brut Galerie, Gugging (2017, 2018) oder The Transition Show, Princess Sirinthorn Art Gallery, Nakhon Pathom (2016).

2016 etablierten sie das Future Presents Lab (AIL / Innovation Lab der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien) und veranstalteten sie die Reihe Future Relations Dinners(AIL und Forum Mozartplatz, Wien).

Im Jahr 2017 haben sie an 365 Days: Life Muse, The Art Center, Silpakorn Universität, Bangkok teilgenommen. (Kuratiert von Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts & Culture)

MUELLER-DIVJAK halten Vorlesungen, Kurse und Workshops (u.a. an der Universität für angewandte Kunst, Wien: Klasse Kartak / Design und an der Silpakorn University Bangkok / Nakhon Pathom).

2016 wurden sie mit einer Artists in Residency an der Silpakorn University in Bangkok / Nakhon Pathom, 2017 mit einer Atelierresidenz in Venedig ausgezeichnet.

www.mueller-divjak.art

The collaboration of Jeanette Müller and Paul Divjak dates back to 2005. Since 2013 the two Europeans, based in the fields of art, the Humanities, and systemic thinking operate under the name of MUELLER-DIVJAK. Their work includes art and research, curatorial consulting, writing and lecturing, and conceptual site specific installations.

Recent solo shows of MUELLER-DIVJAK include “Future Memories”, KMH, Liechtenstein (2018), “Hoky-Poky I & II”, Art Brut Gallery/Museum, Gugging (2017, 2018) or “The Transition Show”, Princess Sirinthorn Art Gallery, Nakhon Pathom (2016).

In 2016 they established the “Future Presents Lab” at the AIL (Innovation Lab / University of Applied Arts Vienna), and the think-tank series “Future Relations Dinners” at Forum Mozartplatz, Vienna. In 2017 they took part in “365 days: Life Muse”, The Art Center, Silpakorn University, Bangkok (Curated by Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts & Culture)

MUELLER-DIVJAK are holding lectures, courses and workshops (for example at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna: Class Kartak / Design (2015), or at the Silpakorn University Bangkok (2016).

They have been awarded AIR / Artists in Residence at Silpakorn University Bangkok / Nakhon Pathom (2016), and a studio residency in Venice, Italy in 2017.