The seventh and the final part of Beauty Unrealized focused on collaborations between artists working in different mediums who reflect on basic parameters and limitations of individual mediums in which they usually work. Creating a platform for their continuous collaboration as Roma Publications, Mark Manders and Roger Willems extend the medium of printed matters, turning them into a space for dialogues with different artists, designers, curators, writers, and poets, at the same time disturbing the usual distribution channels and institutionalized exhibition forms in galleries and museums. In their ongoing collaboration, Claudio Baroni and Fabian Marcaccio step out from their usual mediums and use the form of animation as a meeting point for their previous individual examinations, creating visual and sound landscapes where dreams can easily be turned into nightmares. For Beauty Unrealized, Marko Košnik brought into the framework of the Egon March Institute a singer and a composer Barbara Thun and continued his exploration of relations between human individuals and new media presentations that silently transform power relations into pixelized points of representation.

24.03.2007

Roma Publications Presents: Oksana Pasaiko, Marc Nagtzaan and Mark Manders

Roma Publications is an editorial publishing project founded by artist Mark Manders and graphic designer Roger Willems and is used as a platform for collaborations with a growing number of artists, designers, curators, writers and poets. Since their beginnings in 1998, Manders and Willems have created their own space in which they fuse art, design and curatorship, and succeeded to spread their works through various distribution channels as well as through shows in galleries and museums. Among the 98 publications released so far, their print runs from 2 to 150.000 copies and includes artists’ books, newspapers, catalogues, posters, postcards, DVDs and audio CDs. For Beauty Unrealized, Roma Publication presented a selection of recent postcards-works by a young Ruthenian artist Oksana Pasaiko, a drawing by Marc Nagtzaam, and a booklet (limited edition) by Mark Manders produced especially for this occasion. Not on display but as a part of PSWAR library, Roma Publications also placed on the shelves a broad selection of their previous publications.

Claudio Baroni and Fabian Marcaccio: Abstract Terror (video animation)

Abstract Terror is a first film animation in the ongoing project of collaboration between a composer, Claudio Baroni, and a painter, Fabian Marcaccio. As their point of departure, Baroni and Marcaccio take the relationship between image and music, creating a temporary structure that contains basic elements of both disciplines. At the formal level, Abstract Terror is organized around seventeen images connected through blackouts and interlaced with music sequences. Each image has a duration of ten to twenty-five seconds, becoming a separate ‘object’ enchained by its visual and sound parameters, generating a narrative similar to a mystery film, images of terror or nocturnal nightmares of almost evanescent brevity.

25.03.2007

Performance: Egon March Institute: Operabil POW¹

Barbara Thun – voice
Marko Košnik – text, imagery, keynote presentation

The medium is a person in the state of absence or trance, who can deliver a set of messages that can become meaningful trough interpretations by a person or community of interest. Operabil POW examined relation of original constellation of the human medium to a recent popular form of media enhanced presentation: power point/keynote presentation.
Marko Košnik started his polymedia career in 1980s as a writer of concepts and a musician, producing creative environments, open labs and media platforms, dealing with synchronization of authors from different backgrounds. Crossing from acoustic studies of subterranean Karst to performances and installations with sonorostatics (electro-acoustic plates) Košnik entered the field of performances with his own productions of Egon March Institute and started building interactive environments in 1993.
Barbara Thun, singer, performer and composer, studied classical singing at the Highschool of Arts in Berlin. Since 1992 she performed solo and as a member of the group “maulwerker” in contemporary music and musical theater, in Germany and internationally.
Operabil POW followed in the series of miniature opera modules – elements, starting with Operabil Vienna in 2005, followed by Operabil Shqiptare (Tirana 2005), Operabil Kobe (Kobe – Maribor – Berlin 2006) and Operabil Laputa Engine (Kassel 2006).
Movie documentation available online at http://web.mac.com/marchegon

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