UBERMORGEN.COM

The Oil Show
curated by Inke Arns

HMKV at Dortmunder U
November 12th 2011 - February 19th 2012
http://www.hmkv.de
http://www.hmkv.de/_en/programm/programmpunkte/2011/Ausstellungen/2011_The_Oil_Show.php

We have reached Peak Oil – the maximum capacity of global crude oil extraction and production. After Peak Oil, the total global oil production cannot be increased. In the future, demand will always exceed supply. The global struggle for resources will intensify. Despite this our dependency on oil is growing further. We cannot, or do not seem to want to do without oil. We are seriously dependent.
The works in the exhibition deal with our dependency on oil and the economic, political, and social entanglements and consequences of this growing dependency.

Artists
Ursula Biemann (CH), Christian von Borries (DE), Mark Boulos (US/NL), Heath Bunting (UK), Bureau d'Etudes (FR), The Centre for Land Use Interpretation (US), Chto Delat? (RU), Carl Michael von Hausswolff & , Thomas Nordanstad (SE), Werner Herzog (DE), Mark Lombardi (US), Michael Mandiberg (US), George Osodi (NG), Natascha Sadr Haghighian (IR/DE), UBERMORGEN.COM (AT/CH)


About DOTOILDOT from UBERMORGEN.COM
DOTOILDOT. This "Rock Art" project is dealing with oil as a luxury good and features a large-scaled installations at HMKV Dortmund and at the Gwangju Design Biennale. The Dortmunder U, this unique exhibition-tower in the former coal-capital of Germany, is excessively piped and serves as a huge oil-refinerey. A series of press-releases announced the exploitation of "unconventional" oil (for local supply) in the city center and wreaked havoc in the towns newsrooms and public offices.
DOTOILDOT pays respect to the dark underground, to the deep underground, to the thousands of pure diamonds drilling deep into our mother earth's womb to spill the black blood of organic life populating our planet millions of years ago. A new age of energy will rise from the ashes. The dawn of a new era. Sunshine in our eyes blinding our vision. The heavy metal beat of great times passed. Chinese single children will drink oil like vampires drink the blood of their creators. Make each drop count!
Parallel to the public interventions and installations, the visitors can embark on a quest for the deeper meaning of existential questions about energy and life or uncover complex mechanisms of mass media aesthetics on the brand new website.
DOTOILDOT is part of UBERMORGEN.COM's KRAFT Series:
Humans use universal KRAFT, but are unable to understand the logics and risks that come with it. Nuclear power and oil have become the achilles tendon of mankind. Humans are drawn to the mystery of the planet's organic history and to the inner workings of the smallest but unimaginably powerful elements in the universe. DEEPHORIZON (2010), DOTOILDOT 2010-11, upcoming 2012: T0IM (nuclear infrastructure in Japan), H0 (hydraulic fracturing in South Africa).
http://dotoildot.com

DOTOILDOT-being soft means listening to your heart is hard, 2011, digital print on Hahnemuehle Torchon, 850x300cm
Performance: Statoil gas station Stavanger, NO, No© UM.COM, Photos: Dag Knudsen, Videos: Philipp Teister
Gwangju Design Biennale 2011, Courtesy Fabio Paris Brescia, [DAM] Berlin and Carroll / Fletcher London
DOTOILDOT - Self-supply, 2011, Installation & Performance, HMKV at Dortmunder U, No© UM .COM,
Photo: HMKV Dortmund, http://bit.ly/sdPJby



Special Screening
Centre Pompidou Paris

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid
New cinema and contemporary art

Centre Pompidou
Place Georges Pompidou - 75004 Paris
Subway: Hôtel de Ville, Rambuteau, Les-Halles, lines 1, 4, 11
Prices 6 euros / 4 euros
Accreditations, season tickets: free entrance within the limit of available seats

Friday, November 25
16.00, Cinema 2
http://www.art-action.org/site/en/prog/11/paris/prog_11_25_2.php

In the presence of Hans Bernhard and of Joasia Krysa, curator - Founder of KURATOR/AST (Art and Social Technologies Research)

Presented works:
- Vote-Auction CNN, 2000, http://vimeo.com/19218313
- DOTOILDOT - being soft means listening to your heart is hard, 2011 http://vimeo.com/18748573
- DEEPHORIZON - Variation 1, 2010 http://vimeo.com/12264646
- Superenhanced V1E1 - Familiarization, 2009 http://vimeo.com/23262416
- UGI Trailer, 2008 http://vimeo.com/23045411
- WOPPOW - CRASH COLOR BULLET CHIC, 2010 http://vimeo.com/11078245
- TORTURE CLASSICS - PERFORMANCE SOUTH KOREA - LO-RES ba2a675b-2b4e-4e2c-aa6d-539dcedad25f, 2010 http://vimeo.com/24191366


UBERMORGEN.COM's artistic practice focuses primarily on online actionism. The digital production and publication platforms enable them to develop products into various media, the main being video, digital painting, photography and installation. The 50 min. screening will focus on their video works of the last decade and will use a 27 Min. CNN feature about their Vote-Auction project as underlying narrative to show-case various projects. The following discussion between Joasia Krysa, Hans Bernhard and the audience will deal with the relation of the screened works and their digital actionism. This discourse shall make a deeper understanding of the rather agressive and complex content of their work possible, as well as explain some of the applied media hacking strategies artistically, technically and
legally.
UBERMORGEN.COM is an art duo created in Vienna by lizvlx and Hans Bernhard. Behind UBERMORGEN.COM we can find one of the most unmatchable identities "controversial and iconoclast" of the contemporary European techno-fine-art avant-garde. The permanent amalgamation of fact and fiction points toward an extremely expanded concept of one's working materials, that for UBERMORGEN.COM also include (international) rights, democracy and global communication (input-feedback loops). "Ubermorgen" is the German word both for "the day after tomorrow" or "super-tomorrow". Since 1999 their work has been shown in museums and galleries in Europe, America, Africa, Australia and Asia and include venues such as SFMOMA, Centre Pompidou, Konsthall Malmoe, NTT ICC Museum Tokyo, Gwangju Design Biennale, ZKM Karlsruhe, MUMOK Vienna, Ars Electronica Linz, WRO Media Art Biennale Wroclaw, MoCA Taipei, Witte de With Rotterdam, Lentos Art Museum Linz, Biennale of Sydney, ARCO Madrid and the New Museum New York.