Apparatus 22: Artist talk

Apparatus 22 on gifts, broadcasting, positive destruction and blank auguri

January 25 | 19:00
Closer Art Centre, Kiyv
Nyzhnoiurkivska St, 31, Kyiv
Free entrance
The event will be held in English without translation

The talk will introduce several aspects of the practice of Apparatus 22 art collective through a set of topics ranging from the necessity for positive destruction to their bold explorations of gift economy, from their love for names and coining terms to their inquiry into the potential of radio broadcasting in order to epitomize usually inaccessible contours and spaces through the use of language, voice and sounds.

The talk is part of the exhibition project Apparatus 22. Hope Sank Teeth Into The Night that takes place at Closer Art Center from January 23 to February 20, 2019

Apparatus 22 is a transdisciplinary art collective founded in January 2011 by current members Erika Olea, Maria Farcas, Dragos Olea together with Ioana Nemes (1979 – 2011) in Bucharest, Romania. Beginning with 2015 they are working between Brussels and Bucharest. They see themselves as a collective of dreamers, researchers, poetic activists and (failed) futurologists interested in exploring the intricate relationships between economy, politics, gender studies, social movements, religion and fashion in order to understand contemporary society. In their very diverse works – installations, performances, text based-shapes, reality is mixed with fiction and storytelling and all merge with a critical approach drawing knowledge & experience from design, sociology, literature and economics.

The work of Apparatus 22 was presented among others in exhibitions at La Biennale di Venezia 2013, MUMOK, Vienna(AT), Kunsthalle Wien (AT), Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles (BE), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (DE), Ujazdowski Castle – Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (PL), Museion, Bolzano (IT); performances at MAK, Vienna (AT), Steirischer Herbst, Graz (AT), Stedelijk Museum with De Appel CP Amsterdam, (NL), Yarat Academy, Baku (AZ), Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (DE), Drodesera Festival, Dro (IT), etc.; Apparatus 22 also works beyond institutions via performances in public spaces, interventions in private spaces and other hybrid forms.

The project is implemented under the Culture Bridges Programme. Culture Bridges is funded by the EU and managed by the British Council in partnership with the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) network in Ukraine.