unz. - for contemporary art and tainment

who we are

2006-03-09T12:17:00.000-08:00

dislocate the located, knitting cities

k.unz.t

the artist group unz. (engl.: uz., paying hommage to all possessing possessive pronouns) was founded in spring 2005, to form common and diverging notions of the world- how it is, could be,
should be- experimental, expanding, exercising, conterminating, infiltrating, exhibitional, deflowering, constructing, conceiving, pretending. our fields of interest are the every day culture and its urban symptoms, society- based values and agreements, phenomenons of appereance, perception and form developing out of industrial fabrication and standardization, cultural habits and processes of remembering, forgetting and replacing.
we use a wide range of means, no ideology lets us stick to a single tool or a single way to realize our ideas. we use speech, word and text, we use audio and visual media, sometimes interactive, sometimes immersive, sometimes we build something of simple materials, sometimes we use canvas, sometimes we paint it on the wall. short: the means depend on the content, the scenery and the task, nonetheless and therefore we define ourselves as media artists.

GRAFIC
-grafic design
-editorial design
-silk-screen printing
-drawing, artwork
MEDIA
-visuals
-video, videoresearch und analysis
-installation
-photography
MUSIC
-electronic sound baubles

2006-03-09T12:16:00.000-08:00

Gestaltung des Beitrages von im Katalog des von ZERYNTHIA veranstalteten "EDITING WORKSHOPS" in Gorizia/ Italia.

“over there in sentpeter, the border is going through the houses, over the roofs. people used to tell an anecdote: they said that the frontier also severed a cow - its head was in italy and its tail in yugoslavia.”

“it was eating in italy and shitting in yugoslavia.”

on 15-02-06 unz. gloriously arrived in gorizia, going by a bumping 23 year old vw passat ‘balkanmobil’ and mug shots in our passports that usually make customs officers frisk us, for suspicion of smuggling drugs. we came to gorizia/ nova gorica to find out something about this area where a blind man has drawn a line through, where cows are eating in italy and shitting in yugoslavia (or the other way round, depending who is telling the story), where some
people are trilingual because in their grand and great-grandparents’ times it used to be austrian territory, where a family (levetzov - lantieri) had to watch how parts of their house (the historic palazzo lantieri) were broken down to build a street through it.
like tourists we were walking through gorizia, through medieval streets paved with bricks, passing castelli, palazzi and arcades. and we were walking through nova gorica, on asphalted pavements, passing housing schemes from the seventies and eighties up to the present day, a huge casino, changing the color of its storefront every two minutes, with a spinning globe on its roof, lots of cars and people. you walk 100 meters over the border line, but it could have also been 100 kilometers. they have space to build, not that much ancient history they have to take care of. someone said, with a little bitterness, that gorizia is going to become the centro storico of nova gorica. why not? it seems to fit together: gorizia is sleeping, structures have been fixed for a long time and nova gorica is obviously missing some history, which could be called a city’s soul, but nonetheless it offers a lot of energy. “over the last 20 years the border has become more and more permeable. for one year slovenia has been europe and next year there will be no border anymore. i ’m curious what will happen then.” as katja von ˇc ina, a young italian-slovenian girl, said in an interview. unz. thinks that curiosity is a forerunner of progress.
best regards, unz.

2006-03-09T12:15:00.001-08:00

underground flowers

the white line

2006-03-09T12:15:00.000-08:00

endless rain, washing away the border line (gorizia 2006)