j.e.zukunft_portfolio

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Tageslicht zur Tageszeit

2022 Dimension variable - wall-filling

*daylight at daytime ]

Wall-filling 3-channel video projection

The spectrum of the colour gradient changes simultaneously with the daylight.

sample of the colour gradient: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/a0bg59h29e33yhp/AABNo37NG9rzETAZC0jfd0Hsa?dl=0

creating value

2022 Pen on paper, Sheet 79 x 113 cm

The works will be framed.

ONE NATION

2022

Flag textile, 121 x 80 cm

Portrait format is hung from the ceiling.

Landscape format is preferably hung on a flagpole outdoors.

waving flag:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bmxbpocarvm3tms/waving_flag.mov?dl=0

Exhibition view la Nef 2021, Photo: Olivier Noaillon

everything but the right thing

2021

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Terms are acquired habits of distinguishing things from each other.

Seeing something as something.

Knowledge is developed within a common framework and has a social origin, a social utility.

It is neutral neither in its origin nor in its effect; it reflects the bias of a particular social order.

I see who and what my mind finds plausible

Whatever I experience, I experience by aligning it with an internal model of the world.

Influences from the outside world are influenced by our stored image, our memories.

These include preconceptions and prejudices that interpret and fill in the messages.

Identifying them with our own interests as we feel and conceive them.

Our brain searches for causality, cause and effect. Our mind assumes that our environment follows certain patterns, continuous, measurable and Predictable.

We have a need for meaning, causality provides this meaning. A sense that we can understand and comprehend. This allows us to explain and structure our environment, which gives us a sense of orientation and security.

We have the desire for a reliable environment, which thereby becomes predictable and readable and thus seems controllable. We do so by simplifying, generalising and often absolutising.

Shared fictions that become reality.

The only condition: the majority must believe in it.

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following

sensus communis

2020 Dimension variable (dependent on number of elements), single element: 250 x 110cm

Material: lacquered metal or porcelain, depending on the model

The values, meanings and ethical presuppositions that every member of community inherits, that become judgments we make without much reflection. What we call „common sense“ becomes the common ground of truth, with „truth“ as the community’s judgment about practical needs and choices.

Tage

*days

on going - daily since October 2019

black pen, stamp on DIN A4 offset paper.

The daily movement is noted every 24 hours with the help of a map. The result is a seemingly „abstract“ line on a DIN A4 offset paper. The document is marked with scale and date.

[ Symbolbild ]

pawlowsche Hunde [ *pavlov‘s dogs ]

2021

Audiofile; the most frequently used notification sounds of a smartphone are played. The signals appear at irregular intervals, the order is shuffled.

If possible, the audio file is played through internal speakers of the exhibition room.

link to sound example: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hnx7cayz5injw0k/AAD_D_jmPeZNiOE0QPhEkJova?dl=0

suggestions for public space on going

Shared fictions that become reality.

The only condition: the majority must believe in it.

*He inhabits the habituated.

*Would you have liked to die today?

*Striving for success at work, harmony in family and partneship and a happy long life.

*We believe things we hear often more easily.

*I‘d like to be relevant.

*Finally, Merks have something fixed, definitive, a centre of life.

doing reality; human being as second-order chaotic system

2018 collective zukunft_schoch

Authors are following the action at the vernissage via a live broadcast. They are located in a separate room, which is neither accessible nor visible to visitors.

The writer chooses a figure (a visitor), a grouping, the action as a whole, etc. and „ maintains“ their presence.

The text is transferred to several screens located in the exhibition space. The temporary protagonists (visitors) are thus constantly given a new role. Reading a new, fictitious interpretation of their behaviour, assertions about their actions, their being, their thoughts and inten tions, which merges with the actual presence experienced and undermine the idiosyncrasy of the place and the occasion.

The aim of the work is to create an oscillating relationship between observer and protagonist in which the protagonist or the observer becomes aware of the assertion about his person.

We change reality through observation, description and assertion.

Our reality is formed by a historical narrative that we are telling ourselves and the resulting prognosis of the future.

The visitor finds himself in a setting in which he experiences himself as a second-order chaotic system. In contrast to a chaotic system of the first order, a chaotic system of the second order is influenced by prediction, in this case the narrative of the author. It goes so far that already the idea of an observer has influence on his behavior.

Within the situation, the visitor embodies all roles; protagonist, observer, and author in the sense of actor with a free will. A kind of echo or feedback system is created.

The levels of observation and prediction are superimposed, as the actorial level lies over the situation, the viewer recognizes others as protagonists and others perceive him as protagonists. But he himself remains capable of action and can in turn influence the situation.

The intersubjective reality changes wherever this work takes place.

zukunft_schoch

Exhibition view Kunstraum Florenz Basel 2016

based on a true story

2016

4-channel audiovisual installation, 7min 30sec, loop, material: protective sheet, 4x projectors, 4x speaker, dimension. 3 x 3 x 3m

»Most of the social and political hierarchies have no logical or biological basis - they have their starting point in a random event and are underpinned by myths.«

Yuval Noah Harari

An abstract audiovisaul narrative about human beeing. Four voices of the mac voiceover program are discussing. A cube made out of translucent masking foil is centred in the exhibition space. The moving image is projected from inside the cube onto the cubes wall (painter‘s masking foil). Each of the four voices is speaking over a loudspeaker. The loudspeaker are mounted on to the walls of the exhibition room (one speaker per wall, one voice per speaker). Script of the discussion: see next page.

see following link for the video documentation: https://vimeo.com/164891664

Skript für Petra, Anna, Markus und Yannick - vier VoiceOver Stimmen von Apple (ein Ausschnitt)

[...]

PETRA

Der Homo Sapiens, ein Produkt eines evolutionären Prozesses, der ohne Zweck oder Ziel agiert. MARKUS da stehen wir nun YANNICK da stehen wir nun MARKUS dahin leben. Oder dorthin leben?

ANNA

der Homo Sapiens, nach seinem Wissen das einzige Wesen, welches über Möglichkeiten spekulieren und Geschichten erfinden kann. MARKUS Und daran glaubt.

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A

Es ist uns allen ein Bedürfnis ein Muster zu haben nach dem wir die Welt lesen können.

Die Biologie erlaubt, die Kultur verbietet. Y da stehen wir nun A da stehen wir nun M da stehen wir nun

[...]

P

Willkürliche menschliche Fantasie Produkte, die gesellschaftliche Ordnungen und Hierarchien definieren. A Die einzige Bedingung ALLE die Mehrheit muss daran glauben.

P Und in gewisser Weise von den selben Dingen träumen.

[…]

Y Streben. A hin und her M zwischen dem Gefühl des Mangels und der Langeweile des Besitzes.

A streben nach Erfolg im Job, Harmonie in Familie und Partnerschaft. Und nach einem glücklichen, langen Leben.

Y Mein streben zeigt nur was in unserer intersubjektiven Wirklichkeit erstrebenswert ist.

M

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M

P

P

Ich bin der Gaul von Don Quijote

P

Y

ich bin ein chaotisches System zweiter Ordnung.

Chaotische Systeme zweiter Ordnung lassen sich durch die Vorhersagen beeinflussen.

Solange meine Vorstellung mit den Vorstellungen der Menschen in meiner Umgebung harmoniert, kann ich mir ein reden, dass mein Leben einen Sinn hat. Das macht mich glücklich und zufrieden.

Ich diene der Menschheit.

Ich diene dem Vaterland.

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Y

Ich diene dem Wohlstand, also der Gesellschaft.

Ich diene dem Herrn.

M

[...] Y

P

M

P

Mir dient das nichts.

Kater in der Seele

die Seele ist ein kollektiver Mythos

haben sie auch das Gefühl, dass es noch besser wird als es Heute ist?

die Geschichte entwickelt sich nicht zum Nutzen der Menschheit. Es gibt nicht den geringsten Beweis, dass es den Menschen im Verlauf der Geschichte immer besser geht.

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A

Geschichte ist etwas, das eine kleine Minderheit tut, während die anderen Äcker pflügen und Wasser schleppen.

M namhafte und namenlose Menschen

P

A

P

M

Umfassende historische Wende oder vorübergehende Glückssträhne?

Historischer Zufall

als Zufall bezeichnen wir das zusammentreffen, bzw. die Überlagerung von zwei notwendigen Kausalketten, an deren Schnittstelle sich jemand absichtslos befindet.

Ich habe mehr erwartet.

Exhibition view University of St.Gallen - School of Manage ment, Economics, Law, Social Sciences and International Affairs (HSG)

petra und markus 1.1

#the most important

2015

3-channel audiovisual installation/public lecture, 24min, loop

When and in which context is a fact described as relevant? How is relevance generated? Is there elementary relevance or is it always generated by rhetoric of interest?

A public lecture about the term „relevance“ at the University of St.Gallen - School of Management, Economics, Law, Social Sciences and International Affairs (HSG)

Two voices of the mac voiceover program are discussing about the term „relevance“ The three videos are leaned on the typically aesthetics of an powerpoint presentation.

The work is based on a personal research about the term „relevance“. How relevance is generated, how we use the word, basically about the structure behind the word.

«Petra & Markus 1.1» is a continuation of the work «Petra & Markus 1.0»

See the following pages for «Petra & Markus 1.0»

video still «Petra

«Petra & Markus 1.0 » Exhibition view Kunsthaus Baselland 2015

past and upcoming weather

2014/2018

wooden pedestal/memorial 240x42x42cm, book content: weather forecast of the last 200 years, location of measurement anonymized, metronome: 108 beats per minute, office cupboard: metal 72x68x40cm, framed text: content see below

Excuse me, I just had ideas for another art piece. Maybe it would have entertained you pleasantly, maybe you would have been impressed by the handcraft or by the unusual idea. Maybe it would have been another examination of the space, with the transience of human existence or a critical reflection of the society.

Another decoration of our desired importance and vaunted civilization.

Maybe you would have enjoyed it between two sips of red wine and soon forgotten. Reminded of this or that artwork, reminded of this or that artist. Nice concept, a nice idea.

Maybe someone well-known would have lifted it out of the unknown. Designated it as innovative, radical, or even eminent.

Well, you have to highlight works and artists, to legitimize the sales value and the claimed space in the museum.

Market price and audience figures are important.

emotinal hangover, or the small dream of a home ownership

2013

wooden slats: house 148x148x250cm, video projection: 4min 58sec, silent, loop

Idealized mental constructs grown in the fertile soil of reality. We believe because we want to believe. We want more than exists.

«Gabo nods: «We all know that our Hotel California is not the one from the song. But secretly we want to believe the opposite. Therefore, the lie has become the truth. » » 1

This work was made for the exhibition called «hotel California » 1 http://www.tagesspiegel.de: wo Hippies träumen wollen. 10.08.2013. der Tagesspiegel. 11.10.2009. Newspaper article about a mexican village called Los Cabos. Los Cabos became famous because of the legend that the eagle’s song « hotel california » is about a hotel in this village. The eagle’s denied that song is about this place and they also said that they never visited Los Cabos.

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he did not know what to do

2015

book: format 9.8x13.6cm, 42pages, paper z-offset rough, white, 90g/m²

a small night journal, shown is an excerpt, for the full version see: https://issuu.com/jaromir.vitala/docs/erwusstenicht wastun

*soon it will be twelve.

*the day will come. one after another. and sometime, at some time, it will be here. I hope that I will be here then too.

*twelve has passed.

*If I had a dog, I would go for a walk now, or talk to him.

*I could cook something for myself. - did my groceries today, there is food in the fridge. I also cleaned. That felt good. I was somehow satisfied afterwards.

*I don‘t have a dog.

*My Phone is silent. I have not replied.

404 not found

2015

book: format 21x16.5cm, 190pages, paper z-offset rough, white, 120g/m²

a journey through days and nights the Image- & text material was created between 2010 & 2015 shown is an excerpt, for the full version see:

https://issuu.com/jaromir.vitala/ docs/404notfound

j. e. zukunft

jorim@olu-adam.ch

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MFA, ZHDK Zurich

2019 – 2020

MLitt Fine Art Practice, Glasgow School of Art

2011 – 2015

Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Institute of Art, Basel, Switzerland

2014

Cooper Union School of Art, Manhattan NYC, USA

2013 Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland

Solo Exhibitions

2019 «about: contemporary existenz» Keck Kiosk Basel, Switzerland

2017 «Dieser Kerl hat keinen Wert für die Gemeinschaft, er ist einfach nur ein Individuum» Kunstraum 3/4 Bern, Switzerland

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2022 «a hundred or more» Exhibition Space Flüelastrasse, Zürich

2021 «Cantonale» L’ Association La Nef, Noirmont

2021 «Building Worlds» online exhibition, coordinated by Jonas Lund

2020 «Cantonale» EAC espace d’art contemporain, Porrentruy

2018 «Don’t talk about the weather forecast» eWerk Gallery for Contemporary Art, Freiburg, Germany

2018 «Cantonale» Kunsthaus Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland

2017 «Was tun mit der Zeit» Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany

2016 «Cantonale Bern Jura» Musée jurassien des Arts, Moutier, Switzerland

2016 «formation of patterns» Kunstraum Florenz, Basel, Switzerland

2015 «intervention-young artists on campus» University of St.Gallen - School of Management, Economics, Law, Social Sciences and International Affairs (HSG), Switzerland

2015 «lockeres Denken» Kunsthaus Baselland, curated by Chus Martinez & Ines Goldbach, Basel

2015 «spam» lokal.int, Biel, Switzerland

2015 «Irma La Douce Revisited» Penthouse Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland

2014 «ArtStadtBern» Satellit, Bern, Switzerland

2014 «Brain Orgy, a group show» Treehouse Factory, Brooklyn New York, USA

2014 «End Of The Year Show» Cooper Union, Manhattan New York, USA

2014 «Low Life Extravaganza» Cooper Union, Manhattan New York, USA

2013 «Carte Blanche» Kaiku Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

2013 «Hotel California» Kunstverein Offenburg, Germany

Residency, Award

2016 Artist in Residence, Fiskars Air, Finland

2010 Sponsorship Award of the «proForma» Foundation, Förderverein Schule für Gestaltung Bern und Biel Books

«404 not found» format 21x16.5cm, 190pages, paper z-offset rough, white, 120g/m2 see: https://issuu.com/jaromir.vitala/docs/404notfound

«was tun mit der Zeit» format 9.8x13.6cm, 42pages, paper z-offset rough, white, 90g/m2 see: https://issuu.com/jaromir.vitala/docs/erwusstenichtwastun j.e.Zukunft on the Internet

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