ArtistTalk Best Interview Award – Honorable mention!

neja — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:53:10 +0000

Dalibor Martinis Talks to Dalibor Martinis is a time-travel project with a 31-year span. In 1978 artist Dalibor Martinis, at the age of 31, made a performance in the format of a TV interview. The performance was held and recorded in The Western Front Art Centre, Vancouver in front of live audience. It was then that the first half of the piece was created, as a fictional interview by the artist with himself, who, some 31 years later, was to give answers to the questions he asked himself. The questions were recorded on videotape and kept stored for 31 years.
On April 13, 2010 Dalibor Martinis, now at the age of 62, faced Dalibor Martinis from the year 1978, and answered the questions in TV program „Second Format broadcast by 2. channel of Croatian Television on April 13
The first question was: „Is Dalibor Martinis alive?”

Niklas Roy (DE)

neja — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:37:09 +0000

In the second part of the presentation, Niklas Roy focuses on the WIA <> WIA (Water in Africa <> Water in Austria), a subversive installation and performance project, commissioned by Ars Electronica Center for the European Capital of Culture Linz 2009 exhibition 80+1 – A Journey around the World. Niklas developed an artwork which was supposed to be made by a fictional African artist, called Melissa Fatoumata Touré. The installation consisted of a public toilet in the exhibition space, that appeared to be hooked up via Internet to an African village’s well. Data of the amount of water that is pumped at this particular well was supposed to be sent to the exhibition space, where it would feed the water flush of the toilet with the same amount of water, rising awareness of the different values of water in different areas of the world.
Both, the artist and the entire project were fictions invented by Niklas, weeks after the exhibition opening and more than half a year after he first contacted Ars Electronica as Melissa Fatoumata Touré, doubts about the real character of the artwork raised on the side of the organizers and eventually, Ars Electronica’s investigations revealed the true background of the work…

It was some email exchanging (...) when they desperately wanted to find out who Melissa really is, where she comes from and I from my side tried to explain that everything is cool (...)

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ArtistTalk Best Interview Award – Honorable mention!

Niklas Roy (DE)