AIR_ ART IN PROCESS:
subnet_salzburger platform für medienkunst und experimentelle technologien
josef-preis-allee 16, 5020 salzburg / austria

technisch gesehen:
die AIR wird dazu genutzt, eine künstlerische Beziehung zwischen ART IN PROCESS - Australia und SUBNET - Salzburg aufzubauen.
Künstlerische Positionierungen abseits des Mainstream / es geht um Image und Schein unserer Gesellschaft / was macht die Western Society so erstrebenswert und ist sie erstrebenswert? / ...

ART IN PROCESS generell und im Speziellen über die AIR:
Die künstlerischen Arbeiten, v.a. audio-visuelle Installationen, untersuchen Beziehungen zwischen Mensch, Technologie und Natur/Lebensräumen. Diskutiert wird, in welche Richtungen sich die Welt möglicherweise hin entwickelt, welche Beziehungen/Communities sich dabei konstruieren lassen, die im Kontext diverser Vorstellungen von Umwelt und Erhaltung stehen.
Vor allem geht es um sozialkritische Ausseinandersetzung mit westlichen Imagebildern, Wohlstand und Massenkonsum. Dies wiederum bedeutet aber auch versteckte/verdrängte Randprobleme, Ausbeutung und global gesehen Armut.
Einzelne Arbeiten adressieren unterschiedliche Formen der Ignoranz, der wir in unserem, uns unmittelbar umgebenden, Lebensraum erliegen; versuchen diese aufzudecken, was beim Betrachter zu einen offeneren Blick für globale Situationen führen soll. Um jedoch im Großen zu denken, soll zunächst das Kleine gesehen und verstanden werden; Menschen (z.b. anderer Kulturen, Randgruppen, etc.) neben uns toleriert und akzeptiert v.a. aber als gleichbedeutender Teil in unsere sogenannte Gesellschaft eingebunden werden.

Warum b a c k y a r d: Australien ist voller backyards, die individuell große Bedeutung haben. Hier ist man anonym, privat, kann sich abgrenzen. Ein Ort, der von vorne (Straßenfront) nicht sichtbar, nicht erahnbar ist. Meist sind die Häuser zur Straße hin nicht durch Zäune/Mauern getrennt. Daher hat der backyard umsomehr die Bedeutung des Privatraumes. Oft aber sind backyards auch verwahrloste und vergessene Bereiche, die sich von der gepflegten Vorderfront des Grundstücks gar nicht erst erahnen lassen. Daher kann man sie leicht ignorieren und weiter anfüllen.
Hier wächst meterhoch das Unkraut, liegen verrostete Geräte, Autoteile, werden zur Müllhalde und Abstellplatz alles Ungeliebten, dessen man sich billig und bequem entledigen will. Es sind aber auch Orte für Entdeckungsreisen.

Der Zusammenhang: ART IN PROCESS nutzt die AIR um einerseits eine positive Beziehung zu subnet aufzubauen und andererseits Salzburg's backyard kennen zu lernen.

AUSSTELLUNG - PRÄSENTATION
Alles Dokumentierte währende der AIR wird parallel zu der Ausstellung aktueller Werke ebenfalls präsentiert. Besucher können auf der ART IN PROCESS homepage unter SALZBURG_backyard durch Foto, Text und Videomaterial browsen... und ihr Salzburg aus fremden Augen sehen oder neu entdecken.
Die Zeit der AIR wird ab sofort als Webpage auf ART IN PROCESS dokumentiert - eine Brücke zu subnet Salzburg und im Laufe der Zeit, v.a. während der AIR ausgebaut werden. Texte, Fotos, links zu audio-visuellen Installationen, die während der AIR gezeigt werden oder gerade entstanden sind...

visueller Hör-/Klangraum:
4-Wand Projektion und Sound
SUEX (Sustainability & Extinction) SUEX Trailer
an installation consisting of four videos in HD in relation to four different sound compositions
Basis: aphorism in 16 sequences by the artist. The text is translated into Hebrew, Japanese and Noongar*. The text was recorded in each language, building the main sound. The four videos play simultaneously, speak to the viewer and try to get his attention in building a conversational atmosphere in confrontation to the viewer.
*Noongar - language of Indigenous Australians, southwest corner of Western Australia. Various dialects.

The project looks for a confrontation with the viewer concerning Sustainability and Environment. It aims to inspire social change related to our daily consuming pattern and to get aware of our personal footprint in context to a global situation concerning environmental conditions, which affect people (from different countries) in different ways.
In SUEX the artist sets the human being in confrontation with its surroundings, urban structures and technology in relation to nature.

"After spending many years next to people in different countries I learned to see things differently. How absurd our (Western Society) mass consumption is; how thoughtless we ruin our world and take from the natural resources, which seem available to us, non-stop. Having seen so much poverty, catastrophic illness and living circumstances, I try to make aware of such issues in my work, not to ignore them. From a certain artistic point of view my work questions: Where does sustainability start, where does it come from, how can we create it? Which aspects of reaching or protecting sustainability lead to extinction?" (bello benischauer, 2008)

Lectures/workshop über Projekte der letzten Jahre - einige Notizen

Spezielle verwendete Computer-Programme (Final Cut Pro, Poser, ...) können anhand einzelner Arbeiten etwas eingehender besprochen werden - künstlerischer Prozess dabei

Released DVDs (u.a. vertrieben über das Kunst- und Unterrichtsprogramm der Contemporary Arts Media Inc)

Letztes Projekt SUEX auf Blu-RayDisc

aktuellste Projekte in HD

Vorstellen der derzeit tourenden Einzel-Ausstellung in Australien IMPACT & FUSION, die Hauptwerke der letzten Jahre beinhaltet (eingehen auf Wand-Objekte im Dialog mit audio-visueller Installation)

E N G L I S H V E R S I O N

Project AIR_ ART IN PROCESS:
subnet salzburg platform for media art and experimental technologies

project name: SALZBURG_backyard
the project is funded by subnet
The residency will lead into an exhibition with the presentation of work created throughout the residency at subnet.
Residency: 11th - 31st May
Exhibition dates: 29th May - 12th June 2009
Opening: Thursday 28th May 2009

bello benischauer (project, lectures, workshop, exhibition)
elisabeth m eitelberger (project, writing, organisation, exhibition)
... work together as ART IN PROCESS on art-projects since 2002, living in Fremantle, Western Australia.

Technical aspects:
The AIR will be used to create a partnership between artinprocess- Fremantle/Western Australia and subnet - Salzburg/Austria.
Artistic positioning beside mainstream / it is about the various images of society / what makes western society desirable? / ...

ART IN PROCESS general and especially about the AIR:
The artistic work, mostly audio-visual installation(s), examines relationships between human being, technology and nature/(urban settings) habitats. It discusses in which directions the world will possibly develop, which relationships/communities are about to be created in context to different perceptions of environmental sustainability.
The project in Salzburg will mainly create a socio-political debate about western image, prosperity and mass consumption. This again means and creates hidden/suppressed side issues, exploitation and global poverty - Salzburg: a case study.
Single aspects of work will address diverse kinds of ignorance, we are surrounded with; some of them we would like to respond to and reveal, giving the viewer the chance to open up, viewing things in context to a global situation.
But to think big we have to see and understand the small things first; people next to us (i.e. from different cultures, fringe groups) have to be tolerated and accepted to be seen as integral part of society - integrated as equal part of our so-called society.

Why b a c k y a r d and its metaphorical image:
Austria and Australia are countries full of "backyards", which have individual importance. It is a space to celebrate anonymity, privacy; a place that can be hidden behind the house; which cannot be seen from the front. Backyards are private spaces.
Often backyards are also neglected and forgotten areas, which you could not imagine by looking at a well-kept front. That≠s why we can easily ignore them and fill them up with "rubbish". The weeds grow tall, rusty parts of all sorts of things, ... backyards are used as personal rubbish tip, area of unwanted things, which we want to get rid off and without much effort. But those backyards are also places of discoveries.
Metaphorically we can use the term of backyard and its description to look further...Our world/countries/societies are full of such backyards in many ways.
The connection of the project to the AIR in Salzburg: ART IN PROCESS will use the time of the AIR to create a positive link to subnet and to get to know Salzburg's backyard(s).

exhibition - presentation
All documented material (writing, video, photos) produced throughout the AIR will be presented, as well as recent work by ART IN PROCESS.
The audience will be able to visit the ART IN PROCESS website under SALZBURG_backyard including photos, writing and video material presented on a Computer in an Internet-corner of the exhibition space. People will be able to discover their Salzburg through different eyes.
The AIR will build a link between subnet and ART IN PROCESS.

Audio-visual installation:
4-wall projection and sound - SUEX (Sustainability & Extinction)
an installation consisting of four videos in HD in relation to four different sound compositions
Basis: aphorism in 16 sequences by the artist. The text is translated into Hebrew, Japanese and Noongar*. The text was recorded in each language, building the main sound. The four videos play simultaneously, "speak" to the viewer and try to get his attention in building a conversational atmosphere in confrontation to the viewer.
*Noongar - language of Indigenous Australians, southwest corner of Western Australia. Various dialects.
SUEX trailer http://www.artinprocess.com/HD SUEX looks for a confrontation with the viewer concerning Sustainability and Environment. It aims to inspire social change related to our daily consuming pattern and to get aware of our personal "footprint" in context to a global situation concerning environmental conditions, which affect people (from different countries) in different ways. In SUEX the artist sets the human being in confrontation with its surroundings, urban structures and technology in relation to nature.

"After spending many years next to people in different countries I learned to see things differently. How absurd our (Western Society) mass consumption is; how thoughtless we ruin our world and take from the natural resources, which seem available to us, non-stop. Having seen so much poverty, catastrophic illness and living circumstances, I try to make aware of such issues in my work, not to ignore them.
From a certain artistic point of view my work questions: Where does sustainability start, where does it come from, how can we create it? Which aspects of reaching or protecting sustainability lead to extinction?" (bello benischauer, 2008)

Lectures/workshop about recent projects- some notes...
Specifically used computer programs (Final Cut Pro, Posa, ...) will be discussed through single projects - artistic process
Released DVDs (distributed through Contemporary Arts Media Inc, Melbourne)
Recent project SUEX on Blu-RayDisc
All recent projects in HD
Giving a talk about the currently touring solo-exhibition IMPACT & FUSION in Australia, focussing on the relation of wall-objects (static work) and audio-visual installations (temporal work) and its educational approach.