Heath Bunting:

”Cutting, Climbing, Crossing”

&

UBERMORGEN.COM:

“[F]originals. Authenticity as Consensual Hallucination”

Bunting vs. UBERMORGEN.COM:

”dayplandrugblog. two ways to live your life as a (former) net artist”

Curated by Jacob Lillemose

Overgaden – Institute for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen in collaboration with Artnode – Independent Center for Computer Based Art and Culture, [plug.in], Basel, and Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund.

June 15 – July 16, 2006.

Opening: Wednesday June 14, 2006, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 1 p.m. – 5 p.m., free admittance

On June 15, 2006 Overgaden in collaboration with Artnode will open two solo exhibitions by Heath Bunting and Übemorgen as well as a special exhibition that joins the work of the two artists.

Heath Bunting and duo UBERMORGEN.COM. Two pioneers, rebels and stars of net art. Now for the first time they exhibit together. Almost without computers.

”Cutting, Climbing, Crossing” will present a number of works from the latter period of Heath Bunting’s work dealing with issues of borders, identity and physical space. Central in the exhibition will be the institutional world premiere of Buntings on-going project The Status Project, a mapping of the multi-layered logic of mobility and legal routes of the social system. The work will be presented as wall-mounted diagrams, an interactive database and a 4200 page manual! Another related work, BorderXing, will be presented as a projection of photographs and an online database of ”traveling information” that documents Bunting’s crossing of the internal borders of Europe side stepping the official border crossings. In Tour d’fence and D’fence Cuts, two works presented as a projection and wall-mounted plates respectively, deals with Bunting’s critique of the control and closing of public space through fencing.

“[F]originals: Authenticity as Consensual Hallucination” is the third and closing part of an international joint venture between Overgaden/Artnode, [plug.in] and Hartware MedienkunstVerein. The exhibition will be a classic painting show, constisting of 6 large square canvasses with digital print of the official seals from UBERMORGEN.COM's projects from the last five year. The title - [F]originals - is a contraction of 'to forge' and 'originals' and refers to the ambiguous status of the 'documents' that UBERMORGEN.COM produce through their projects dealing with issues of our technology based culture. For instance, the bank statement that is generated by our bank is that an original in the classical art historical sense? It is difficult to say since it is an official document but it is generated by a piece of software - and not a person - and it can be reproduced. UBERMORGEN.COM's take on such problematics is both humorous and critical and invites us with a very precise aesthetic that combines elements from advertising, propaganda and sheer painterly beauty to take a moment to reflect on how these documents influence our lives as consumers as well as citizens. It is using the fictional - or virtual - space of art to play with meanings in the 'real' world creating a fascinating exchange and a twilight zone of possibilites in between.

“dayplandrugblog. two ways to live your life as a (former) net artist” features another institutional world premiere or actually many of a number of works that deals with diaries. Heath Bunting will show 365 (one for each day of 2005) of his daily what-to-do maps drawn by hand on paper along with the photo Self-portrait at 38 and Heath is right at the bottom (1980), a ready-made newspaper article on the then 14 year old Bunting’s interest in computers. UBERMORGEN.COM will show prints of one month of the online “drug blog” together with the video PsychOS.

In connection with the project a number of publications will be available. Bunting’s will print his Day Plan Guide along with the Project Status Manual and for the UBERMORGEN.COM show a catalogue edited by Alessandro Ludovico (neural.it) will be published late August.

The project is the result of continuous collaboration between Overgaden and Artnode with the ambition to bring international computer based contemporary art to Denmark and to get computer based contemporary art out of the new media ghetto.

The project is generously supported by Pro Helvetia – Schweizer Kulturstiftung, British Council Denmark, The Austrian Embassy Copenhagen and Danish Arts Council.