events



originalcopy—Post-Digital Strategies of Appropriation


Book presentation and talk

June 28, 2019

The practice of copying has become omnipresent yet invisible, both in the digital realm and in the analog world. The arts-based research book originalcopy—Post-Digital Strategies of Appropriation subjects the dichotomy of original and copy to a re-evaluation from a post-digital perspective and sheds light on this contradictory phenomenon…
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Pageworks (Wandzeitung)
Exhibtion and publishing experiment
April 28 – June 14, 2018

Pageworks (Wandzeitung) is the next manifestation of the same-titled project, which began as a performance in the semi-public space of a copy shop. Whereas the infrastructure of a digital printer was appropriated in the first edition, employing the self-service mode to produce a limited series artists’ publication, the second edition…
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springerin — Hefte für Gegenwartskunst
Magazine release and presentation
April 23, 2018

springerin — Hefte für Gegenwartskunst is a magazine dedicated to the theory and critique of contemporary art and culture. springerin addresses a public that perceives cultural phenomena as socially and politically determined. The magazine informs about current events and tendencies in the cultural field and describes their conditions and meanings…
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”, ”, ”, — Footnotes
Exhibition and performance
March 10, 2018 – March 25, 2018

”, ”, ”, — Footnotes is the third in a series of experimentally designed exhibition formats. The show traces the act of copying as an omnipresent yet often invisible artistic practice at the intersection of the digital realm and analog world. Despite its culminating character as the third in a row of three events…
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A ditto, ditto device.
Exhibition and performance
December 8, 2017 – January 17, 2018

A ditto, ditto device. is the second in a series of experimentally designed exhibition formats. This temporary setting traces the act of copying as an omnipresent yet often invisible artistic practice at the intersection of the digital realm and analog world. As part of the arts-based research project originalcopy
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Pageworks
Publishing performance and presentation
May 9, 2017

Pageworks is both a collection of artists’ publications as well as a collaborative performance. A temporary workshop in the semi-public space of a copy shop in Vienna serves not only as a production site and place for the multiplication of the loose elements of the publications but also as a showroom for…
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Periphrasis (for a ditto, ditto device)
Workshop and collaborative exhibition process
April 19 – 20, 2017

Periphrasis (for a ditto, ditto device) is an experimentally designed scenario in the draft stage, a think-tank and rehearsal for a future exhibition—but it is also an exhibition in itself. Starting from the idea of the copy as a nowadays omnipresent yet more and more invisible artistic practice and form, seven Austrian and international participants discuss…
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Performative Research
Performance, book presentation, and public talk
October 11, 2016

The first in a series of events in the context of originalcopy combines two different research projects under the umbrella of the same arts-based methodology. We will present three books that stem from the large-scale investigation into the act of writing Possible Content for 18 Pages. The book presentation takes place in form of a re-staged performative…
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