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Another artwork that explores touch.
Johann Arens
Moulding Exclusivities
Video link: https://vimeo.com/223404129
Password: Empyre
Johann Arens (b. 1981, Aachen, Germany) uses installation and video to survey
the documentary properties of public interiors and their inherent social
textures. By deliberately placing artworks atypically he redirects attention to
places in the peripheral vision. His sculptures are found embedded in
standardised work environments, educational frameworks, community centres,
neighbourhood businesses and digital inclusion charities. These site-related
interventions are enquiries into the multiple ways novel technologies device
our communal life and shape civil behaviour.
Recent exhibitions have included ‘Ecologies’ Bold Tendencies , London, UK
(2018); ‘Findings on Palpation’ P/////AKT, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2018);
‘digital_self’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2017); ‘These
Rotten Words’, Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff, Wales (2017) ‘Preis für Junge
Kunst’ NAK, Aachen, Germany (2016) ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet’,
Beursschrouwburg, Brussels, Belgium (2016). Public commissions have included
Motion Tracks, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK (2016); Platform 2016, Deptford X,
London, UK (2016); and 100 Arches, Arnolfini and Art and the Public Realm
Bristol, UK (2014). Johann recently completed residencies at SPACE, London
(2017), Asia Culture Centre, Gwangju, South Korea (2016) and at the
Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (2014/15).
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