Carroll Fletcher
UBERMORGEN, Singapore Psychos image
UBERMORGEN
u s e r u n f r i e n d l y
11 October - 16 November 2013
*Press preview: Thursday 10 October, 5pm - 6:30pm*
Followed by the Private View, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
u s e r u n f r i e n d l y is the first solo exhibition in the UK for
UBERMORGEN - the Swiss-Austrian-American duo founded in 1999 by lizvlx
and Hans Bernhard. The exhibition features installations, videos,
websites, actions, pixellated prints, digital-oil paintings and
photographs in a hyper-active, super-enhanced exploration of censorship,
surveillance, torture, democracy, e-commerce, and newspeak. The works
seek to destabilise our understanding of the influence of technology,
corporations and governments on our everyday lives and subvert the
dominant networks of power that structure our world.
The exhibition includes two new installations - /Do You Think That's
Funny? - The Edward Snowden Files/ (2013) and/CCTV - A Parallel
Universe/ (2013) - that continue UBERMORGEN's open-ended investigations
into corporate and governmental authority; investigations that involve
and implicate both the artists and the audience in a complex global
network of power and influence. /Perpetrator/ (2013) - a series of
photographic and video works based on the life of Guantanamo Bay
military guard Chris Arendt and his two month stay at the artists' home
in 2008 - and /[V]ote-Auction/ (2000) - a platform that enabled trading
of electoral votes in the presidential race between George W. Bush and
Al Gore - broaden the scope of the artists' research to consider the
nature of and links between institutional and individual agency and
responsibility.
Throughout the exhibition the infiltration and influence of the digital
realm on the physical is further explored through paintings, prints and
photographs. The /Deephorizon/ (2010) series of digital-oil paintings
(based on aerial images of the 2006 oil rig disaster in the Gulf of
Mexico) reconsiders 'oil painting' as a live performance of
process-based art form. Whilst the/Psych/|/OS/ (2002 and 2012) series
of photographs explores our relationship with mental illness, and
complements the /Oldify/ (2013) series of prints that utilise the
Oldify™ app that takes an image and ages it: 'It's the perfect way to
confront your own mortality during the springtime of your
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In a section of the exhibition, Aram Bartholl curates a selection of
UBERMORGEN's Net.Art works on as series of wireless routers hung in the
gallery. Each artwork is assigned a single Wi-Fi router, which is
accessible through devices such as smart-phones, tablets or laptops. The
content of the artwork is visible only on the visitor's private screen.
UBERMORGEN's research-based practice is driven by a desire to satisfy
their own curiosity, without the constraints of having a defined
political agenda or preconceived beliefs: 'If art and art production
politicises itself, it becomes political and ceases to be
art'<http://www.carrollfletcher.com/admin/records/pages/_edit/114#_ftn2>[2].
Influenced by Dada and the Viennese Actionists, UBERMORGEN's 'digital
actionism' utilises modern technologies and performance-based strategies
to devise multi-layered, flexible narratives that blend fact and fiction
to draw both the artists and the audience in a real-time, ever-evolving
high-stakes game.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a 32pp publication featuring an
essay by curator Magda Tyżlik-Carver and conversations between
UBERMORGEN and Austrian quantum physicist Dr. Tobias Noebauer and
between UBERMORGEN and Edward Snowden.
*For further information, interviews and images please contact
pr...@carrollfletcher.com or call +44(0)20 7323 6111*
*Notes to Editors*
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1. UBERMORGEN's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries
internationally since 1999, including HKW, Berlin; MUMOK Museum of
Modern Art, Vienna; MACBA, Barcelona; Ars Electronica, Linz; SFMOMA, San
Francisco; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Centre Pompidou, Paris; New Museum,
New York; Malmö Konsthall; NTT ICC Museum, Tokyo; MoCA Taipei; Lentos
Kunstmuseum, Linz; WRO Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw and Prague; Sydney
and Gwangju biennales. Their work is currently included in /Systemics
#2: As we may think (or the next world library), /Kunsthalle Aarhus,
Denmark, which runs until 31 December 2013. Awards include ARCO Beep,
Swiss Art, Ars Electronica and IBM New Media. www.ubermorgen.com
<http://www.ubermorgen.com>
2. Aram Bartholl (b. 1972, Bremen, Germany) is an artist and curator
living and working in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include Kasseler
Kunstverein, Germany; xpo gallery, Paris and DAM Gallery, Berlin. Group
exhibitions include Eyebeam, New York; /Künstlerhaus Vienna;/ HKW,
Berlin; The Pace Gallery New York; MoMA, New York; Portsmouth Museum of
Art, Portsmouth, USA and FACT Liverpool. www.datenform.de/
<http://www.datenform.de/>
3. Co-founded by Jonathon Carroll and Steve Fletcher, Carroll / Fletcher
is a contemporary art gallery located on Eastcastle Street in Central
London. The gallery supports existing and new forms of artistic
production, and works with exceptional emerging and established artists,
whose practices use a diverse range of media to explore contemporary
socio-political, cultural, scientific and technological themes. Artist
represented include John Akomfrah, Michael Joaquin Grey, Eva and Franco
Mattes, Manfred Mohr, Michael Najjar, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Thomson
& Craighead, UBERMORGEN, Eulalia Valldosera, Richard T. Walker, and John
Wood and Paul Harrison. www.carrollfletcher.com
<http://www.carrollfletcher.com/%E2%80%8E>
Image: UBERMORGEN, Singapore Psychos, Neo, 2013. Archival Pigment Print
on Canvas, 186x140cm
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<http://www.carrollfletcher.com/admin/records/pages/_edit/114#_ftnref>[1] Huffington
Post
<http://www.carrollfletcher.com/admin/records/pages/_edit/114#_ftnref>[2] UBERMORGEN.COM,
Manifesto, 2009
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