Artist Talk about Toxic Temple for "AIL im Gespräch"

The Angewandte Innovation Lab / Elisabeth Falkensteiner did a talk about our exhibition Toxic Temple this March. In 15 minutes our approach and ideas are summarized in a very good way. Tune in and enjoy!

Virale Überaffirmation

I have felt quite lonely in the last few days in my thinking and doubting about Corona and the collective overaffirmation of government's actions and restrictions. At the invitation of the Austrian magazine on musical culture skug, I have reflected on the situation with some of my over-affirmative favorite tracks and tried to keep a differentiated picture in times of germinating community madness.

Find the German text here.

Corona Panic & Cold Panic - commentary on the Corona Pandemic for taz

 I have written a commentary on the current Corona-Panic for taz - die Tageszeitung. I argue that we might be witnessing a displaced emotional outburst originating from the "cold panic" (Isabelle Stengers' concept) of the slow realization of the ecological catastrophe we are living in.

 "Die heftigen Reaktionen auf Corona zeugen von einem tiefliegenden Bedürfnis, endlich unsere katastrophale Normalität zu suspendieren."

https://taz.de/Umgang-mit-dem-Coronavirus/!5671630/

performative Lesung der toxischen Gebete - Dokumentation

 The first Toxic Temple has closed it's gates. But be sure there will be others opening up in the not so distant future. Stay tuned, we will continue to venerate those that will outlast us!

For now, I will leave you with a few images of our performative reading at the last Toxic Temple event on 26.2 (Überschreitung) - one more poem and some rather edgy video material of the action. Oh Tempel, Du der neuen Düfte, selten' Erden sind dein Land. 

 

 Coke

ein Schluck von diesem schwarzen Trunk

ein Knistern des Behältnis sich verschließender Faust

Du wirst mich überdauern, Flasche Coca Colas

ein Stratum willst du bilden

zuerst mobil und das ozeanische Getier verschlingend

später den Boden als Folie überziehend

Zeitkapsel, Überdauerungsgarant der schwindenden Kultur

Du, die kommuniziert mit den nächsten

Botschafterin der glatten Länder

von der so viele abgerutscht

wohin sollen wir Dich senden

was Bedeutung willst Du übermitteln

singt der irdene Successor

Dein schlierig‘ Lied?

Das Gift hat unser Leben

gemacht zum Garten Eden

dankend senden wir dich hin

du Uniform der Carbonierten

richte Grüße an die Neuen

die Durchdringung dann gelingt

The poems will be published soon and there is also a more general publication on Toxic Temple planed. 

"Nietzsche and Ecological Reason(s) in the Anthropocene" published at The Trumpeter - Journal for Ecosophy

I was able to publish a chapter of my ongoing PhD-project "Affirmation of Ecological Reason(s)"at The Trumpeter - Journal for Ecosophy. In it, I argue how Nietzsche can be regarded as a key-figure within the emergence of some "ecological reason" within occidental main-stream discourses. Find the abstract below and the paper here. 

"Ecosophical discourses around the ecological condition that is sometimes referred to as the “Anthropocene” require a fundamental rethinking of key concepts of occidental philosophy, including reason. Nietzsche’s body of work offers manifold tools for the rethinking of reason, and this paper seeks to apply them to achieve a “new ecological image of thought.” It will demonstrate 1) how there is a clear ecological awareness motivating Nietzsche’s affirmative critique of reason, 2) how one can find rudiments of a pluralization of the concept of reason in Nietzsche's body of work, as well as 3) traces of a new, qualitatively different form of ecological reason for the time called the Anthropocene – with all its problems and possibilities. In doing so, this paper will demonstrate how Nietzsche can be very productively applied to contemporary eco-philosophical discussions."

"Rituale im Plastikrausch" - Interview about Toxic Temple for gallerytalk.net

Anna Lerchbaumer and me gave an interview about our Toxic Temple for gallerytalk.net. Read it here.

Come this Wednesday for the closing ("Überschreitung") of our Temple in which I will perform my 13 prayer/poems among sound performances of Fabian Lanzmaier, Billy Roisz and Anna Lerchbaumer.

Toxic Temple @ Super Science Me on Radio Orange & Leporello at Radio Ö1

Right in time before our opening "Einweihung" tomorrow, Toxic Temple will appear in the radios twice today and tomorrow morning!

My favorite radio show "Super Science Me" has dedicated a full, one-hour episode to Toxic Temple, which you can listen to live at Radio Orange from 18-19h today. We will talk a lot about communication with the beyond of humanity, new deadly beauties, the inner life of machines and the joy of intoxication. Furthermore, you will be able to hear some of my prayer/poems to the toxic, recordings of machine sounds by Anna Lerchbaumer and two excursions into nuclear semiotics and the sewage sludge by radio host Julia Grillmayr herself.

The episode can be listened to when- and where-ever you like via this link.

Tomorrow, at 7:52, Toxic Temple will be featured for 8 minutes in Ö1's Leporello by Anna Soucek. You can listen to it live or in replay for one week here.