Conglomerate
26 Apr - 15 Jun 2019
Installation View of “CONGLOMERATE” at ChertLüdde, Berlin. Courtesy the artists and ChertLüdde, Berlin. Photo by Andrea Rossetti.
CONGLOMERATE
26 April – 15 June 2019
Featuring works by: Josefin Arnell & Pauline Curnier Jardin, Aurora Sander, Kev Bewersdorf, Melanie Bonajo, Camp Solong, Mario Campos, Joe Clark, Claudia Comte, Eli Cortiñas, Keren Cytter, DullTech, Nathan Gray & Agnieszka Polska, Renata Har, Heatsick, Harmony Horizon, Christine Hill/Volksboutique, John Holten, Emma Waltraud Howes, The Institute for New Feeling, Avi Krispin, Daniel Laufer, Hanne Lippard, Molly Lowe, Inger Wold Lund, Magic Island, Josep Maynou, Marco Montiel-Soto, Shana Moulton, Erkka Nissinen & Charlie Schroeder, Novo Line, Peles Empire, Repossession Services, Stephen G. Rhodes, Jeremy Shaw, Pascual Sisto, Soda Plains, Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor, Caique Tizzi, Ming Wong, Lauryn Youden
For ChertLüdde, CONGLOMERATE presents a screening room of their complete output from 2016-2018 created along with dozens of fellow artists.
Founded in 2016 by Sol Calero, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Derek Howard, Christopher Kline, and Dafna Maimon, CONGLOMERATE explored the potential of the Television Network model, utilizing the organizational structure and output format of “television” while building a collectivity-focused network.
Headquartered at the Berlin project space Kinderhook & Caracas and expanding to other venues where various television sets were created for selected shows, the project often utilized the immersive exhibition format to shoot original, collaborative productions which were assembled into 30 minute “Blocks” of content alongside guest artist contributions, and made available online at www.conglomerate.tv The resulting channel-surfing experience puts the viewer at the whim of the network as their computer screen becomes the primary experiential location of the works. The audience is submerged into an idiosyncratic world, a disparate underbelly of sorts, unified through an overarching absurd, humorous, and viscerally seductive take on reality.
While the overall project was conceived of as a Gesamtkunstwerk, each video segment ties into and utilizes a different artistic practice or gesture. Through the multiple ways the different elements and modes of collaboration are woven together, the Blocks form a network of voices, perspectives, relations, skills, and collective affective labor. The varying degrees of involvement of CONGLOMERATE’s makers and contributors create platforms within platforms, or artworks within artworks, where one artist’s practice can be featured within another’s.
This flexibility and continuous shifting of vision and responsibility from maker to maker offers a new potential model for the sustainable and independent realization of larger art projects. After producing five “Blocks” and two “Spills” as well as a yet-to-be released made-for-TV-movie, CONGLOMERATE wrapped up new productions in 2018.
26 April – 15 June 2019
Featuring works by: Josefin Arnell & Pauline Curnier Jardin, Aurora Sander, Kev Bewersdorf, Melanie Bonajo, Camp Solong, Mario Campos, Joe Clark, Claudia Comte, Eli Cortiñas, Keren Cytter, DullTech, Nathan Gray & Agnieszka Polska, Renata Har, Heatsick, Harmony Horizon, Christine Hill/Volksboutique, John Holten, Emma Waltraud Howes, The Institute for New Feeling, Avi Krispin, Daniel Laufer, Hanne Lippard, Molly Lowe, Inger Wold Lund, Magic Island, Josep Maynou, Marco Montiel-Soto, Shana Moulton, Erkka Nissinen & Charlie Schroeder, Novo Line, Peles Empire, Repossession Services, Stephen G. Rhodes, Jeremy Shaw, Pascual Sisto, Soda Plains, Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor, Caique Tizzi, Ming Wong, Lauryn Youden
For ChertLüdde, CONGLOMERATE presents a screening room of their complete output from 2016-2018 created along with dozens of fellow artists.
Founded in 2016 by Sol Calero, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Derek Howard, Christopher Kline, and Dafna Maimon, CONGLOMERATE explored the potential of the Television Network model, utilizing the organizational structure and output format of “television” while building a collectivity-focused network.
Headquartered at the Berlin project space Kinderhook & Caracas and expanding to other venues where various television sets were created for selected shows, the project often utilized the immersive exhibition format to shoot original, collaborative productions which were assembled into 30 minute “Blocks” of content alongside guest artist contributions, and made available online at www.conglomerate.tv The resulting channel-surfing experience puts the viewer at the whim of the network as their computer screen becomes the primary experiential location of the works. The audience is submerged into an idiosyncratic world, a disparate underbelly of sorts, unified through an overarching absurd, humorous, and viscerally seductive take on reality.
While the overall project was conceived of as a Gesamtkunstwerk, each video segment ties into and utilizes a different artistic practice or gesture. Through the multiple ways the different elements and modes of collaboration are woven together, the Blocks form a network of voices, perspectives, relations, skills, and collective affective labor. The varying degrees of involvement of CONGLOMERATE’s makers and contributors create platforms within platforms, or artworks within artworks, where one artist’s practice can be featured within another’s.
This flexibility and continuous shifting of vision and responsibility from maker to maker offers a new potential model for the sustainable and independent realization of larger art projects. After producing five “Blocks” and two “Spills” as well as a yet-to-be released made-for-TV-movie, CONGLOMERATE wrapped up new productions in 2018.