installation shot, whilst not activated (photo: martina mächler)
(photo: brigham baker)
(photo: brigham baker)
(photo: brigham baker)
Balance (BA 10/2013 - 03/2016)
Lecture Performance, 20min, in English, 30min for installing / dismantling
Keynote Presentation, 41 Slides
Meeting table, chairs, carpet, screen on a mobile stand
(ZHdK‘s property, in use at the meeting room BA Media & Arts, Kaskadenfoyer)
Diploma Show Media & Arts, Zürich University of Arts (ZHdK)
The presentation was held daily throughout the exhibition‘s duration
as part of the time-based program in room 5k12, Toni-Areal, Zürich University of Arts
09.06.2016- 19.06.2016
A financial report covering Martina Mächler‘s earnings and spendings spanning over the Bachelor studies‘ time span. The data is visualised in two-coloured, screenprinted quarter-yearly diagrams shown on powerpoint slides presented on the moveable flatscreen monitor. By means of anecdotes she discusses personal incidents and experiences questioning the predictability of financial and therefor connected emotional balance. The personal references are also means to break with the formal and objectively connoted meeting situation, where there‘s usually no place for the personal.
The most banal daily life in form of money and transactions, which is affecting or even controlling art production. Speaking about it from a position of power shows dependencies that break with the still present idea of an autonomous art production. An analysis of the institutional goals reflected in her experience. The scrip was written from the perspectives of her as an artist, a CEO and a private person. Destinctions with extremely blurry transition, where ideas of work- life relations can be renegotiated.