TV Memories (An American Quilt)

black and white cotton, viscose, filler, prints

single patches, 10 x 10 cm

 

I was and am particularly interested in US-TV shows and mainstream movies as part of "American culture" and how they picture or construct everyday life situations.

Often people are filmed in bed, on bed, making phone calls, eating pizza, writing, working, reading, thinking, being sad. In many cases there is a coverlet, that I personally only was informed of its American existence via movies or shows: a quilt.

The quilt itself has a complex and long history; it plays an important role in American history, not at least as a keeper of dreams and memories.

In general, patchwork-technique is used to make a quilt. Here, I made single patches that are loosely connected with scattered strings. Instead of personal emotional memories  (e.g. pieces of worn-out clothes) I collected screencaps and film stills and try to extend their already frozen lifetime.

As part of the show:

Dein Sandwich ist meine Semmel - A Thousand Commitments to Super Glue - with Lily Lake 

mixed media installations

2019, 12-14 contemporary, Vienna

Postions on plastic

And humandkind.

Hold, freeze and reconstruct.

 

exhibition view: NEWS & COLABS 

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A gateway from heaven to hell's finest places 

lovely gracious 

progressive paralysis 

in uncoded poetic moments 

 

a link in a loved one's dream

pools 

stuffed with ice cream 

 

pink dappled eyeballs 

may kill zombie hearts

plus, just in case 

turquise diamonds that fill up 

fresh and flesh wounds

and self-laceration 

 

a thousand commitments to super glue

to dive into 

nurtured 

and find a solvent

 

patience made out of velvet 

agonal kitten's sounds 

creature features

and birds on fragile blossoms

 

a suitcase of 

pleasure measures 

purring souls 

puking minds 

 

Save Nemesis and 

probably reproduce her 

 

 

As often as you can. 



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