Kitchen Talk No.1
1. März 2023, 18.00 Uhr Kunstuniversität Linz,raum&designstrategien, Hauptplatz 6, 1.OG, Küche
raum&designstrategien lädt immer Mittwoch abends Künstler*innen ein, aus ihrer künstlerischen Praxis zu erzählen. Es wird gemeinsam gekocht und gegessen, Projekte werden gezeigt und Studierende, Lehrende und Gastvortragende und -kochende diskutieren, was eine zukünftige Praxis für Raumstrateg*innen sein könnte.
Diese Woche zu Gast:
U5/Berit Seidel
Daily Routines
U5 is an arts collective that is opposed to traditional notions of individual authorship. U5 actively pursues historical and contemporary approaches to research in art, especially approaches that transcend disciplines, or produce other forms of art and knowledge.
The collective U5 first formed at Zürich University of the Arts in 2007 before graduating as a group in 2011. The working method depends on unanimous founding principles:
• All members have equal rights, but consensus is not necessary.
• All works are created in cooperation.
• Presence and absence influence the work equally.
Work originates from a fascination for materials of all kinds, especially everyday materials and utensils made of plastic. The accumulation of digital and analogue materials is an important component of the artistic approach, both a ballast and a trove at the same time.
Since the collective‘s foundation, all work processes have been documented and archived in real time with the help of a self-developed live camera (PALM). The handling of this absurd amount of material and data forms the basis of production.
Since 2011 the collective’s studio in an industrial building on the edge of Zurich gained additional significance as an event space, as a permanently transforming, semi-public place. During four years the «Automatenbar» took place every Tuesday: a live format for music, performance, screenings and discussions.
The studio is a production site for objects, costumes, films, installations and performances that oscillate between natural, artificial, fictitious and virtual. They are combined with sound, dance, food and drinks, scent, fog and light and then assembled into immersive installations in the exhibition space. Such exhibitions are not a final product, but iterations for further productions. They are possibility-spaces in which something can happen that is not-thought-through precisely, but which can provoke reactions and actions.
Plakat Kitchen Talk.pdf
© Berit Seidel