Sung Tieu
Untitled
Intervention / Commissioned work
Sung Tieu, Untitled (2020), newspaper intervention, photo: Courtesy of the artist
Dates
24.9.–15.10.2020
Details
Kleine Zeitung (Styrian edition)
Location
Graz
Production specifics
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’20
The pandemic brought a host of concrete changes, even the abstractions we use will never be the same again; in fact, some preconceptions of them might have shifted forever. In her intervention in the local newspaper Kleine Zeitung (Styrian edition), Sung Tieu conceives obituaries for precisely those abstract terms that have undergone irreversible changes over these last months of instability. These half-page ads make use of conventional newspaper typography but are actually hand drawings. They create a contrast to the computer-generated graphics and statistics usually deployed to explain the present crisis in the media.
Retrospective
Retrospective