Mehreen Murtaza
05 Sep 2015 - 29 May 2016
Mehreen Murtaza, ...how will you conduct yourself in the company of trees
Installationsansicht Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesabden 2015
© Christian Lauer and NKV
Installationsansicht Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesabden 2015
© Christian Lauer and NKV
FOLLOW FLUXUS
Mehreen Murtaza ... how will you conduct yourself in the company of trees
05 September - 29 May 2016
The Follow Fluxus - After Fluxus 2015 grant for young contemporary art called by the Hessian State Capital of Wiesbaden and the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden / NKV goes in its eighth year to Mehreen Murtaza (born 1986, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, lives and works in Pakistan). For her exhibition "... how will you conduct yourself in the company of trees" at Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden and her outdoor installation at the University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden she connects plants, synthesizers and modulators up by cable to hear them speak.
How will you conduct yourself in the company of trees - this question, abstracted from a haiku, Mehreen Murtaza asked herself during the residency at the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden. In the Hessian State Capital for her „Urban happenstances, listings of recipes for spiritual replenishment, lyrical lichens and improvised cultural implosions come together as dissonance, fragmentation and with the clash of the artificial and the mechanical”. But especially the local vegetation was a source of inspiration. In the Kurpark and Frauenstein forest she collected remnants of deadwood, man-made debris and elements of the local Flora to create links between plants and technics. In collaboration with Tobias Haelke, she used customized sound equipment and electronics to amplify the energy cycle of living organisms and created a 'post-ecological' soundscape.
For the duration of the exhibition a `laboratary` will offer an insight view on her preparations and method. A composite score, system or mechanical mind-map of these anthropomorphized beings is chalked down with recurrent themes of an interior universe that rather than explore ideas, attempts to invoke the spirit of a distinct space that is neither fiction nor non-fiction. The Exhibition in the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden will show a concept of what is about to take place within the evening hours on September 15th 2015 in the garden of the University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden. Mehreen Murtaza created an installation that connects nature with customized ardinos, computers, software and lightning equipment to transfer the electric currents of plants into sound. Franciscus Gall, fellow at the University of Applied Science RheinMain, Wiesbaden, will re-create his magical Night Rainbow at the temporary outdoor installation.
Mehreen Murtaza, the stipend of 2015, was nominated by Dr. Marion Ackermann, Director of K21 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf. The establishment of the grant was inspired by the "Fluxus Festival of Very New Music" which took place in Wiesbaden in 1962. This Fluxus event provided the first real broad impact for the new art movement and started off what is now seen as the first international movement operating in a global network. The endowment of 10,000 Euro is provided annually for a residency in Wiesbaden from June through August. Living quarters and studio space is provided by NKV during this time. The work stipend concludes with an exhibition of the artist`s created work in the following year between the end of August 2015 and May 2016 and includes a publication.
Mehreen Murtaza ... how will you conduct yourself in the company of trees
05 September - 29 May 2016
The Follow Fluxus - After Fluxus 2015 grant for young contemporary art called by the Hessian State Capital of Wiesbaden and the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden / NKV goes in its eighth year to Mehreen Murtaza (born 1986, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, lives and works in Pakistan). For her exhibition "... how will you conduct yourself in the company of trees" at Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden and her outdoor installation at the University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden she connects plants, synthesizers and modulators up by cable to hear them speak.
How will you conduct yourself in the company of trees - this question, abstracted from a haiku, Mehreen Murtaza asked herself during the residency at the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden. In the Hessian State Capital for her „Urban happenstances, listings of recipes for spiritual replenishment, lyrical lichens and improvised cultural implosions come together as dissonance, fragmentation and with the clash of the artificial and the mechanical”. But especially the local vegetation was a source of inspiration. In the Kurpark and Frauenstein forest she collected remnants of deadwood, man-made debris and elements of the local Flora to create links between plants and technics. In collaboration with Tobias Haelke, she used customized sound equipment and electronics to amplify the energy cycle of living organisms and created a 'post-ecological' soundscape.
For the duration of the exhibition a `laboratary` will offer an insight view on her preparations and method. A composite score, system or mechanical mind-map of these anthropomorphized beings is chalked down with recurrent themes of an interior universe that rather than explore ideas, attempts to invoke the spirit of a distinct space that is neither fiction nor non-fiction. The Exhibition in the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden will show a concept of what is about to take place within the evening hours on September 15th 2015 in the garden of the University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden. Mehreen Murtaza created an installation that connects nature with customized ardinos, computers, software and lightning equipment to transfer the electric currents of plants into sound. Franciscus Gall, fellow at the University of Applied Science RheinMain, Wiesbaden, will re-create his magical Night Rainbow at the temporary outdoor installation.
Mehreen Murtaza, the stipend of 2015, was nominated by Dr. Marion Ackermann, Director of K21 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf. The establishment of the grant was inspired by the "Fluxus Festival of Very New Music" which took place in Wiesbaden in 1962. This Fluxus event provided the first real broad impact for the new art movement and started off what is now seen as the first international movement operating in a global network. The endowment of 10,000 Euro is provided annually for a residency in Wiesbaden from June through August. Living quarters and studio space is provided by NKV during this time. The work stipend concludes with an exhibition of the artist`s created work in the following year between the end of August 2015 and May 2016 and includes a publication.