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2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki | The College of Fine Arts
2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki | The College of Fine Arts
When:
Thu, 24 Sep, '09 - Sun, 27 Sep, '09
Where: Thessaloniki, Greece
This hybrid reality, combining photo, model, performance and technical scheme, shows the installation layers in the form of a section, a video extract and the floor plan
Artist and COFA Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media Arts, Petra Gemeinboeck, will exhibit in the
2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki.
Working with sensor‐based installations, Gemeinboeck’s artistic practice crosses the fields
of architecture, computer science, electronic media art and visual culture.
The work which will be included in Praxis: Art in Times of Uncertainty, which is the theme
and title of the 2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, is titled On Track. Working in collaboration with artists
Linda Dement , PRINZGAU/podgorschek, and Marion Traenkle, the piece is a performative installation
involving a pendulous mechanical system, trapped robotic brushes and spilling viscous fluids. A
disaster-prone scenario unfolds as the protagonists, apparently set to clean, spill, interfere with
and hinder each other, creating an ever more slippery mess in intricately choreographed ways.
The work was produced in the context of the European project e-MobiLart (European Mobile Lab
for Interactive Media Artists), co-funded by the CULTURE 2007 Programme of the Education,
Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency of the European Commission. The team of curatorial
advisors includes: N. Czegledy, A. Bureaud, C. Galanopoulou, and R. Malina.
The group exhibition titled “e-MobiLArt” is taking place during 20 May - 10 June, organized
by the State Museum of Contemporary Art and is taking place as a parallel event of the 2nd
Thessaloniki Biennale in Warehouse B1.
The e-MobiLArt project aimed at providing the 33 selected participants with a multicultural,
interdisciplinary context, for supporting their collaboration and the creation of their artworks.
During the first year of the project, three workshops took place in three different European
countries (Greece, Finland and Austria). In these workshops, participants formed groups and worked
collaboratively for developing their projects while being provided with necessary technical,
theoretical and curatorial support.
2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki 24th of May- 27th of September 2009
For more information on the 2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki please visit:
http://www.thessalonikibiennale.gr/index.php?lang=en
For more information on Petra Gemeinboeck, artwork On Track and the collaboarting artists please visit:
http://www.media.uoa.gr/~charitos/emobilart/exhibition_gr/on_track.html