Exhibitions/Projects
1995 "SNOWING presents Participants", Blau-Gelbe Galerie, Vienna
1996 "TIME SHARING" Project/Installation, Experimental Intermedia Huis, Ghent, Belgium (Curator Phill Niblock)
1998 "BOOK OF LIES", Fullerton College, Los Angeles, The Living Room - Special Projects in Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Dirt Gallery, Los Angeles, (Curator Eugenia Butler)
1998 "Letter-word-sentence", Fort Sztuki 1998, Cracow, Poland
1999 "Stagione di Caccia", Pavillon Esprit Nouveau von Le Corbusier, Bologna (Curator Boris Bakal)
1999 "Kraków/Krakau", Köppl-Haus, Krakaudorf, Styria, Austria
2000 "Via Poeti", Studio D'ARS, Milano
2001 "WEB Sinken" (Sink the WEB), website project for "Festival der Regionen", Upper Austria
Presentations
1996 book /video presentation, Secession, Vienna
1997 video presentation, Galerie bei den Minoriten, Graz
1998 Vice Versa project presentation, basis wien
1998 video presentation, Experimental Intermedia, New York
ORF "Kunstradio" (Artradio)-Productions
1996 "TIME SHARING" with Amanda Stewart, Sydney
1998 "CRACOVIENSIS" with Héctor Fiore, Kraków
Video-Editions
"TIME SHARING", VICE VERSA -Travelproject, Vienna/Ghent, 1996, 2 installationvideos in duo, each 13 min 30 sec in endless version, 1 hour. Video-Edition: 10; publisher: Institut für Interaktive Raumprojekte, Vienna.
"KRAKÓW/KRAKAU, ein Fremdenverkehr" ("KRAKÓW/KRAKAU, a foreign exchange) VICE VERSA project video, 1997/98, 19 min.
"ULICA", G. Moser-Wagner, installation video for "Leute von St. Benedikt", Krakau project 1997/98, 19 min
"CUT", B. Piersol, installation video for "Leute von St. Benedikt"; Krakau project 1997/98, 27 min.
Editions with VICE VERSA - Participation
1997 "EUTOPIA, Mail -Art from the West", CD-ROM, Limburg, Netherlands
1997 "BOOK OF LIES", Volume II, Art and Poetry , Los Angeles (Project Eugenia Butler)
VICE VERSA - Notebooks, Editions 1-6
Heft 1 "Archival Procedure", with an interview with Ursula Baatz, Vienna 1995
Heft 2 "Litmus", with authors Bodo Hell, Petra Ganglbauer, Amanda Stewart, Jiri Valoch, Vienna 1996
Heft 3 "Time Sharing", documentation of the travel project, Vienna/Ghent, 1996
Heft 4 "Bekanntgabe" (Public Announcement), PR-campaign, Vienna 1996
Heft 5 "Kraków/Krakau", documentation of the Krakau projects 1997/98, with contributions from Burghart Schmidt, Konrad Balder Schäuffelen, Bodo Hell, Jacek Wozniakowski, Héctor Fiore, Vienna 1999
Heft 6 "Concept & Coincidence", documentation of VICE VERSA transferential projects, Bologna 1999, Vienna 2000
Works in collections: University of Applied Arts, Vienna; archive, basis wien; Lower Austrian State Museum; Austrian Consulate, Kraków; ORF; Albertina Graphic Collection, Vienna; Austrian Art Documentation, BKA; City of Vienna, Department of Culture; private collections+
Project Descriptions
The perception projects are closely connected to the artists, who function as the ones realizing the results. They investigate, usually on a parallel basis, following a predetermined method, the difference between perceptive filters. The results are highly complex.
ARCHIVAL PROCEDURE 1995
Reciprocal presentation and declaration of artistic procedures
Results:
Booklet # 1: "ARCHIVAL PROCEDURES", with interview by Ursula Baatz, Wien, 1995
TIME SHARING 1996
Travel project Vienna-Ghent
Studio trip by train to Ghent, Belgium for a VICE VERSA exhibit in Experimental Intermedia Huis (Curator Phill Niblock). The work for the exhibition is developed during the train trip using an exact, predefined method.
ORF-Radiokunst Production with Amanda Stewart
Results:
Booklet # 3 "Time Sharing", Material from the Travel Project, Vienna-Ghent, 1996
Exhibition. Video-Edition "Time Sharing", Edition 10, original drawings
Project description:
"Time Sharing", procedure and time structure. 13 hours 30 minutes: 1 hour travel - 1 minute shooting time. The train from Vienna to Ghent. Traveling. 2 artists, 2 video cameras; camera exchange every hour. The production: 2 VICE VERSA video tapes, each 13 min 30 sec, run parallel in the exhibition space. Twin monitors set in two windows face the street; text in the background, on the wall; concepts, partitures, drawings in front, on the windows.
KRAKÒW/KRAKAU 1997-1999
Artistic Research Project
Conscious exposure to the foreign, to unknown places with the same name. Gertrude Moser-Wagner in Kraków, Poland; Beverly Piersol in Krakaudorf, Styria, Austria. Each for one week on the respective site, each exchanging ideas for possible motives per fax. Found and coincidental "Die Leute von St. Benedikt". A television series, filmed in Krakauforf; obvious film locations, sign posts for tourists everywhere: St. Benedikt. A small street, St. Benedikt , in Polish Kraków, one time ghetto. Piersol makes a video from the existing TV series, in which she removes actors, leaving extras and landscape of St. Benedikt (Krakaudorf). Moser-Wagner photographs the Polish site, the remaing row of houses on the street St. Benedikt in Kraków, interviews one of the inhabitants and learns the history of the exiled.
More about this project: http://kultur.wkstk.at/comart/krakra/vice-versa.htm
Results:
Booklet # 5 "Kraków/Krakau", documentation of the extensive Krakauprojects 1997/98, with contributions from Burghart Schmidt, Konrad Balder Schäuffelen, Bodo Hell, Jacek Wozniakowski, Héctor Fiore, Wien 1999
VICE VERSA silk screen edition "Leute von St. Benedikt", Edition 10. 10 video stills selected from the Krakau-Video "Cut" (selections from TV series, colored) by Piersol and 10 b/w photos from the St. Benedikt Street in Kraków by Moser-Wagner. Project video "Kraków/Krakau, ein FremdenVerkehr" ("Kraków/Krakau, a Foreign Exchange)
Project description:
"Krakòw/Krakau" is an on-site research project. The city in Poland, the village in Styria (Austria) are used for artistic interventions by the two artists - each foreign to her respective environment. The conceptual impulse is none other than the identical name of two places, which have no relationship to one another - or do they? The research was carried on during a "parallel action" in 1997, Moser-Wagner in Kraków, Poland, Piersol in Krakau, Styria. "Leute von St.Benedikt / People from St. Benedict" was chosen as common denominator. On one hand, as existing fictious TV-series, filmed in and around Krakaudorf, "Die Leute von St. Benedikt" left considerable traces of the medium TV in the head and landscape of the village people; on the other, the real historically loaded little street St.Benedict of the former jewish ghetto in Kraków, Poland, which left major traces in the lives of the polish "People from St. Benedict". The idealic village and the very real city, Austria and Poland and their (common?) history.
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The interaction projects are related to the word, the concept VICE VERSA and its function.
LITMUS
1996
word, concept
The words VICE VERSA are sent out to writers who work with each other or with the artists, using" vice versa" as method to communicate.
Results:
Booklet # 2 "Litmus", with authors Bodo Hell, Petra Ganglbauer, Amanda Stewart, Jiri Valoch, Wien 1996
BEKANNTGABE (PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT)
1996
function
The concept VICE VERSA goes public; posters with VICE VERSA are mounted for one month on official billboards throughout Vienna. Post cards are made with VICE VERSA and are distributed in public space: the word circulates and communicates.
Results:
Posters and Postcards, Photos of the posters hanging with other posters on the public billboards in Vienna.
Booklet # 4 "Bekanntgabe" (Public Announcement
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The transferential projects from VICE VERSA function in networks, define a public or refer to groups and establish themselves as catalysers of art. They start as reciprocity and dialog, are processual and end up in public space or internet.
VIA POETI
1999
Poetic Intervention
The Via Poeti in the old city of Bolgna is point of departure for on-site performances, on one hand on the street itself, on the other in a fitness club with the same name. Workshops given by the artists on poetic action, on reciprocity of public and architectual space form part of the project.
Results:
Booklet # 6 "Via Poeti", workshops and trainings, City project, Bologna 1999
WEB VERSENKEN (SINK THE WEB)
2001
Internet-Project
Nature and technology, the Ibmer Moor (Peat Bog) and the computer company IBM. Peat and Internet, 2 non enterable fields - this very fact making them the interesting sources of myths, of stories, and research. Distance and transfer. An illustration: plank bridges are built so that surfaces one cannot enter upon can be entered upon - this to be played through virtually. Some of the inhabitants of Ibm are involved. The results are a web site for and by the particpants on the Ibmer Moor. Sponsor is IBM. "sink the web" is a project for the Upper Austrian Regional Festival (OÖ Festival der Regionen)
(in process)