syllaBLEndings :: vietato fuMARE nostrum

 

syllaBLEndings

vietato fuMARE nostrum

2022

View: Café Stockwerk (stairs window), Graz, 2022

CDoupbles :: dySTOPia

 Veronika Tzekova

"dySTOPia"

intervention-performance and protest walk in public space
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2022

    “dySTOPia” was realised as group short-term interventions-performances on “STOP” road signs along a predetermined route in the city centre. The participants, together with the artist an agent-provocateur (protest facilitator), walked a short route in the city and made interventions-performances in public space to protest and reflect on the dystopian aspects of society nowadays. The ephemeral interventions-performances were taking place on pre-selected “STOP” signs. Using two signs with the text “DY” and “IA” (see photos). Participants were briefly holding the signs “DY” and “IA” from the two sides of the “STOP” sign, so that the word “dystopia” was formed. At each of the stops was protested against a specific dystopian feature. 

    The idea was to draw attention to already existing or intensifying dystopian features in our contemporary society, economic system and world order.

    Some political, social and environmental emergencies of our time that could be classified as dystopian (a dystopian society usually has at least one of the following characteristics from this non-exhaustive list):

• Fear; principle of fear in forms of government;
• Tyrannical governments;
• Environmental disasters;
• Division of society;
• Lack of social mobility;
• A high wealth gap;
• Fear or loathing of the world outside of one’s own state;
• Permanent/intensified surveillance and control by the state;
• Isolation of the natural (biological) environment from everyday life;
• Corruption;
• Strict conformism;
• Poverty;
• Diseases;
• Depression;
• Alienation of the individual from nature, the state, society, family and himself, etc.

    The intervention-performance “dySTOPia”, although minimalistic and symbolic, protests and briefly occupies, but is not destructive, rather like any protest, it is a sign of a desire for change on the part of conscious individuals. A poetic and beautiful gesture of human beings who have left, albeit briefly, their comfort zone and the diabolical cycle of everyday life.

CDoupbles :: грАД :: grAD

Veronika Tzekova

 „грАД“

(en. град - city; АД - HELL)

large format typographic installation/sculpture

(3 m x 10 m x 60 cm)

Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2022

    „грАД“ looks at the language through the lens of the Set theory and uses the visual perception of the written text. In Bulgarian “град“ means “city”, and the second half of the word is “ад“, which means “hell”. „грАД“ is a scenario of only two words, but it tells the stories of many cities and countless human destinies.

    It seems as if in an imaginary past „грАД“ was conceived and installed as a massive and imposing monument to the city. The city as an institution. The city as the centre of human civilization, prosperity and culture. The city as a dream and an object of desire. The city as a powerful attraction. In the present, the viewer witnesses the result of how time, natural forces, and perhaps most of all, the human factor have taken away the city's grandeur and charm, and turned it into an inferno. "Г" and "Р" have replaced their proud monumental vertical position with a horizontal one. They have turned into a kind of ruin, resting in the dust of the street and can be mistaken for a non-standard type of urban furniture. "АД" becomes a city landmark, oppressive with its size and warning with its brevity.

    „грАД“ visualizes the duality of the city - a continuous cycle and dynamic between the city as an object and source of desire and the burden of  the urban reality and everyday life. „грАД“ is a process in which we, tired but unfailingly motivated, are seeking balance in the midst of chaos and randomness.

    „грАД“ was installed 3 – 12 September 2022, in a central location in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria as part of the Week of Contemporary Art. Not planned, but expected, it turned into interactive typographical installation. Daily differed meanings were created: град - city; гад – badass; ад – hell and in the day of the deinstallation only “A” was standing, A?  (en. Huh?) or A! (en. Eh!).

 

CDoupbles :: Grundfarben :: eROTisierend :: ReGELBruch :: ZeitaBLAUf

 

"eROTisierend"

(en. erotic/RED)

"ReGELBruch"

(en. breaking the rules/YELLOW)

"ZeitaBLAUf"

(en. passage of time (in the course of time, over time)/BLUE)
2022

"SchAUGEnus" #16 - "AuFARBEitung" (en. processing/COLOUR)

Schaufenster, Atelier Zwölf Kkb, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz

CDoupbles :: schoKOBRAun :: bronZEBRAun

 

"schoKOBRAun"

(en. chocolate brown/ COBRA)

typographical assemblage
2022

"bronZEBRAun"

(en. bronze brown/ ZEBRA)

typographical assemblage

2022

View: "SchAUGEnus" #16 - "AuFARBEitung" (en. processing/COLOUR)

Schaufenster, Atelier Zwölf Kkb, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz

CDoupbles :: PaLILAlie

 

"PaLILAlie"

(en. palilalia/ PURPLE; LILAC)
2022
"SchAUGEnus" #16 - "AuFARBEitung" (en. processing/COLOUR)

Schaufenster, Atelier Zwölf Kkb, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz

CDoupbles :: pROSA

 

"pROSA"

(en. prose/ PINK)
2022
"SchAUGEnus" #16 - "AuFARBEitung" (en. processing/COLOUR)

Schaufenster, Atelier Zwölf Kkb, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz

CDoupbles :: KlanGRAUm

 

"KlanGRAUm"

(en. acoustic space; sound space/ GRAY)
2022
"SchAUGEnus" #16 - "AuFARBEitung" (en. processing/COLOUR)

Schaufenster, Atelier Zwölf Kkb, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz

CDoupbles :: ZeitaBLAUf

 

"ZeitaBLAUf"

(en. passage of time (in the course of time, over time)/BLUE)
2022
"SchAUGEnus" #16 - "AuFARBEitung" (en. processing/COLOUR)

Schaufenster, Atelier Zwölf Kkb, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz

CDoupbles :: ReGELBruch

 

"ReGELBruch"

(en. breaking the rules/YELLOW)
2022
"SchAUGEnus" #16 - "AuFARBEitung" (en. processing/COLOUR)

Schaufenster, Atelier Zwölf Kkb, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz

syllaBLEndings :: AbstrAKTmalerei

 

syllaBLEndings

AbstrAKTmalerei

2022

View: Café König, Graz, Austria, 2022

CDoupbles :: eROTisierend

 

"eROTisierend"

(en. erotic/RED)
2022
"SchAUGEnus" #16 - "AuFARBEitung" (en. processing/COLOUR)

Schaufenster, Atelier Zwölf Kkb, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz

syllaBLEndings :: HöllentemPOstmoderne

 

syllaBLEndings

HöllentemPOstmoderne

2022

View: Café Stockwerk (stairs window), Graz, 2022

syllaBLEndings :: GegenwARTbastard

 

syllaBLEndings

GegenwARTbastard

2022

View: Café Stockwerk (stairs window), Graz, 2022

"SchAUGEnus" #15, 5. Mai- 8. Juni 2022

 

"SchAUGEnus" #15, 5. Mai- 8. Juni 2022
Schaufenster, Atelier Zwölf Kkb, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz

"EnerGIERessourcen"
"BodenverSIEGelung"
2022
SchAUGEnus #15, 5. Mai- 8. Juni 2022

Schaufenster, Atelier Zwölf Kkb, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz

"Erdbe"
Installation

Cardboard, glass cylinder, water

2016/2022
SchAUGEnus #15, 5. Mai- 8. Juni 2022
Schaufenster, Atelier Zwölf Kkb, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz

“in·dust·ry”

Typographic Installation

2016/2022

SchAUGEnus #15, 5. Mai- 8. Juni 2022

Schaufenster, Atelier Zwölf Kkb, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz

"UmweltverschmutzUNGewisse Zukunft"

("syllaBLEndings")

2022

SchAUGEnus #15, 5. Mai- 8. Juni 2022

Schaufenster, Atelier Zwölf Kkb, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz

syllaBLEndings :: rubiKONkrete kunst

 

syllaBLEndings

rubiKONkrete kunst

2022

View: Café Stockwerk (stairs window), Graz, 2022

syllaBLEndings :: kubismUSer-friendly

 

syllaBLEndings

kubismUSer-friendly

2022

View: Café Stockwerk (stairs window), Graz, 2022

syllaBLEndings :: denkARTe povera

 

syllaBLEndings

denkARTe povera

2022

View: Café König, Graz, Austria, 2022

CDoupbles :: Erdbe

 

CDoupbles

Erdbe (de)

2016/2022

(en. Erde=earth/ Erbe=heritage)

Installation

Cardboard, wood, glass cylinder, water

View: "SchAUGEnuss" #15, 5 May- 8 June 2022, display window, Atelier Zwölf Kkb, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz, Austria

syllaBLEndings :: rubiKONzeptkunst

 

syllaBLEndings

rubiKONzeptkunst

2022

View: Café König, Graz, Austria, 2022

syllaBLEndings :: UmweltverschmutzUNGewisse Zukunft

 

syllaBLEndings

UmweltverschmutzUNGewisse Zukunft

2022

View: "SchAUGEnuss" #15, 5 May- 8 June 2022, display window, Atelier Zwölf Kkb, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz, Austria

syllaBLEndings :: psychotrOPart

 

syllaBLEndings

psychotrOPart

2022

View: Kulturvermittlung Steiermark, Graz, Austria, 2022

syllaBLEndings :: minimalisMUStermix

 

syllaBLEndings

minimalisMUStermix

2022

View: Stadtbibliothek Zanklhof, Graz, 2022

CDoupbles :: plANTS

 

CDoupbles

plANTS

Illustrated word

2022

syllaBLEndings :: abstrAKTionismus

 

syllaBLEndings

abstrAKTionismus

2022

View: Steiermärkische Landesbibliothek, Graz, 2022

CDoupbles :: BodenverSIEGelung

 

"BodenverSIEGelung"

2022

(de)
(en. sealing the soil surface (impervious surface)/VICTORY)

View: "SchAUGEnuss" #15, 5 May- 8 June 2022, display window, Atelier Zwölf Kkb, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz, Austria

CDoupbles :: EnerGIERessourcen

 

"EnerGIERessourcen"

2022

(de)
(en. energy resources/GREED)

View: "SchAUGEnuss" #15, 5 May- 8 June 2022, display window, Atelier Zwölf Kkb, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz, Austria

CDoupbles :: in·dust·ry

 

"in·dust·ry"

Typographic Installation
2016/2022
View: "SchAUGEnuss" #15, 5 May- 8 June 2022, display window, Atelier Zwölf Kkb, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz, Austria

CDoupbles :: mindeSTABstand

 

"mindeSTABstand"

phase I

"mindeSTABstand"

phase II

(de)
(en. minimum (physical) distance/STICK)

Typographic installation
Wood, cardboard
2021-2022

from the series "CDoupbles"

View: "SchAUGEnuss" #14, Display window of Atelier 12 KKB, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz

31 March - 4 May, 2022

syllaBLEndings :: kunSTraftat

 

syllaBLEndings

kunSTraftat

2022

View: Café Stockwerk (stairs window), Graz, 2022

syllaBLEndings :: kunSTadtraum

 

syllaBLEndings

kunSTadtraum

2022

View: Café Stockwerk (stairs window), Graz, 2022