The images below are only example images (screen shots). They serve as place holders, i.e. are not linked yet. The plan is to ask a variety of people from different cultures, generations, professions, and diverse ethnic and social backgrounds individually about their favorite saying. Each person's saying will create a little video blog entry.
To make it easy for you to navigate I will create additional screen shots with each saying (as you can see in the examples). Every visitor will be able to click on them. The images will be linked with the short video. Thus we get to know a real person in the context of his/her favorite saying.
This project is part of a competition. The plan is to start posting beginning of 2008. If you came onto this site by accident and feel intrigued to participate, please send me your favorite saying and a little video in which you speak it out loud (watch out for the audio to be audible). Thanks!
Friday, November 2, 2007
Description
Every culture comprises big reservoirs of sayings and proverbs. They often help us to struggle with events that ask us either to change our attitude or to develop a new approach. The purpose of this site is to collect them by asking a diversity of people to tell their favorite saying and the short story of it: when and how the phrase first entered his/her life. The result will be a series of short video blog entries which are posted on this site. Sharing these gems of personal wisdom and stories of human resilience with each other will teach us about each others cultural heritage; and it will also bring some culture into an often quite impersonal web.
Artist Statement
(1) Although trained as a sculptor I see myself as a media artist. That means that my work is not limited to a single material, it includes all sorts of media. In a recent exhibition for instance I was showing 25 new installations: photography, objects, drawings, and video.
(2) I believe in the power of art. I think art continually has to find new images for the time we live in. For the conditions and issues we deal with: existentially, politically, physically, and globally. Searching such images is what I am aiming for.
(3) Going back and forth between knowing and doing feeds what we ultimately call culture. It is important to me to be involved in art practice from both a theoretical and practical stance. I usually get most inspired by artwork that comes from a balance between aesthetic form and conceptual content.
(4) My artwork is often based on some sort of humor. I like it when serious things come with a wink. It makes it easier to deal with, to digest, and to further construct.
(5) I do believe in an intriguing encounter between art producers and the public. To embrace education is a rewarding way to expand our creativity. Audiences can make us learn better, and see things we would not have known of. I understand both, intelligence and creativity to be profoundly social.
Richard Jochum, New York 2005-2007
(2) I believe in the power of art. I think art continually has to find new images for the time we live in. For the conditions and issues we deal with: existentially, politically, physically, and globally. Searching such images is what I am aiming for.
(3) Going back and forth between knowing and doing feeds what we ultimately call culture. It is important to me to be involved in art practice from both a theoretical and practical stance. I usually get most inspired by artwork that comes from a balance between aesthetic form and conceptual content.
(4) My artwork is often based on some sort of humor. I like it when serious things come with a wink. It makes it easier to deal with, to digest, and to further construct.
(5) I do believe in an intriguing encounter between art producers and the public. To embrace education is a rewarding way to expand our creativity. Audiences can make us learn better, and see things we would not have known of. I understand both, intelligence and creativity to be profoundly social.
Richard Jochum, New York 2005-2007
Biography
Richard Jochum is a Visiting Scholar and Artist in Residence at Columbia University. He works as a media artist since the late 1990s setting up exhibitions all over the world. Being an Austrian citizen Richard received his MA in philosophy from the University of Innsbruck, and his PhD from the University of Vienna dealing with strategies of coping with complexity in contemporary philosophy. He got his MFA in sculpture and media art from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna before he moved first to Berlin and later to New York. Richard’s art practice is accompanied by lectures in the field of contemporary art practice and cultural theory. He has been awarded several grants and prizes. One of his most recent installation - an oversized prayer necklace as a communal sculpture – is exhibited on the roof top of the American University in Cairo, March – 2007. More information can be found at http://richardjochum.net
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