<div dir="ltr"><div>fragmentary notes on Johann Arens' <span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Moulding Exclusivities:</span></div><div><br></div><div>what i am seeing/hearing/feeling:</div><div>- who is the camera? am i the camera? who is the user?</div><div>- whose disembodied arm is this?</div><div>- camera view on an arm - intimate seeing. intimate machine vision.</div><div>- am I stuck in a loop?</div><div>- how did I get here?</div><div>- ok I'm in a startup/ ad agency/something</div><div>- symbols on the wall as corporate hieroglyphics</div><div>- how did I get here?</div><div>- am I stuck in a loop?</div><div>- goopy sculptures outside of an installation situation.</div><div>- horror soundtrack? plodding white noise intensity and disembodied scanner voices. what will happen to me?</div><div>- occasional (workers?) in the background, mid action. do they not see? can they not hear? DANGER!</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:52 PM, Daniel Lichtman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danielp73@gmail.com" target="_blank">danielp73@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
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<div style="direction:ltr">Johann Arens</div>
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<div style="direction:ltr">Video link: <a href="https://vimeo.com/223404129" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/223404129</a></div>
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<div style="direction:ltr">Johann Arens (b. 1981, Aachen, Germany) uses installation and video to survey the documentary properties of public interiors and their inherent social textures. By deliberately placing artworks atypically he redirects attention
to places in the peripheral vision. His sculptures are found embedded in standardised work environments, educational frameworks, community centres, neighbourhood businesses and digital inclusion charities. These site-related interventions are enquiries into
the multiple ways novel technologies device our communal life and shape civil behaviour.</div>
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<div style="direction:ltr">Recent exhibitions have included ‘Ecologies’ Bold Tendencies , London, UK (2018); ‘Findings on Palpation’ P/////AKT, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2018); ‘digital_self’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2017); ‘These Rotten
Words’, Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff, Wales (2017) ‘Preis für Junge Kunst’ NAK, Aachen, Germany (2016) ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet’, Beursschrouwburg, Brussels, Belgium (2016). Public commissions have included Motion Tracks, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK (2016);
Platform 2016, Deptford X, London, UK (2016); and 100 Arches, Arnolfini and Art and the Public Realm Bristol, UK (2014). Johann recently completed residencies at SPACE, London (2017), Asia Culture Centre, Gwangju, South Korea (2016) and at the Rijksakademie,
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