Artist's Talk at EAF Sat 2pm 1 March
In Conversation with Mischa Kuball, Artist's Week, Elder Hall, Wed 5 March 1:30 - 2:15pm

Dusseldorf-based German artist Mischa Kuball will exhibit ReMix/Broca II (Letters/Numbers). Kuball has worked conceptually with light for more than twenty years, and in a unique way has linked light, which is otherwise largely considered an aesthetic medium, with social and political statements. Within his complex and multifarious work, the pieces that confront human communication form a specific concentration. “I am interested in language as a function of a code—that is, in the sense of coding and de-coding,” says Kuball. ReMix/Broca II (Letters/Numbers) is a further development of his earlier work, broca’sche areal. With both of these works, Kuball refers to the eponymous brain region, which forms language capability, and thereby the basic conditions for human communication. Taking six different rotating projectors as a point of departure, in ReMix/Broca II (Letters/Numbers), letters and numbers are cast on the walls of a room. This leads to the chance overlapping of a multitude of connections of meaning from various semantic areas, which generates the need to construct meaning. In addition, sculptural elements in the room reflect the light of the projectors; these sculptural elements are the artist’s digitized brain waves transferred to three dimensions. In this way, grasping, expressing, and representing thoughts are all connected on different levels as the preliminary stage of communication. <on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$5641>

A monograph, Mischa Kuball …in progress. Projekte / Projects 1980 - 2007 was published by Verlag Hatje / Cantz earlier this year. It includes writings by key critics including Yukiko Shikata, Peter Sloterdijk and Peter Weibel. The publication is available for EAF's bookshop, Dark Horsey

Artist's website <www.mischakuball.com>

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Images from Aritst Talks & Opening night

Listen to Mischa Kuball talk about Re:Mix/Broca II (Letters/Numbers) and other works [click on the ear]
Interview by Cath Kenneally, Arts Breakfast, broadcast 8th March 2008, courtesy Radio Adelaide.

Image credits from top: Re:Mix/Broca II (Letters/Numbers), 2008, Experimental Art Foundation, multimedia installation, dimensions variable; Stage, Experimental Art Foundation, multimedia installation, dimensions variable. 2008 Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts. Photos by Matt Nettheim. Images © the Artist and Adelaide Festival Corporation