Alice Creischer
Venetin Coliu (2023)
Installation / Commissioned work
Alice Creischer, Venetin Coliu (2023), installation view, Villa Perpetuum Mobile, Forum Stadtpark, photo: steirischer herbst / kunst-dokumentation.com, courtesy of the artist
Dates
21.9.–15.10.2023
Location
Villa Perpetuum Mobile
Graz
Part of
Villa Perpetuum Mobile
Production specifics
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ʼ23
With the kind support of the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
Alice Creischer’s newly commissioned installation takes its name from a (supposedly) self-perpetuating magnetic motor Stefan Marinov developed in 1992 with two collaborators from Treviso, one of many similar experiments. Its organic materials refer to Marinov’s day job as a horse groom and to the biological basis of all machines. Its elements explore the drastic ecological effects of our own time’s hunger for energy and the flawed idealism of Marinov’s heyday, when free energy was a utopia on the same level as that of the free market.
Retrospective
Retrospective