In 2008 and 2009 Walter Stach and Marcus Neustetter have been experimenting with public paintings and drawings in response to the Uefa 08 and Confed Cup 09. These have manifested in collective performative production, publicly displayed paintings, site-specific installations and a book of drawings.
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uefa08 confed09 overview pdf
Uefa08 Finals book filmed (1.9MB)
uefa08 book video
After drawing the city skyline of Johannesburg as sheet music, sound artists and musicians were invited to interpret and respond to these images. Recording sessions for improvisation and collaboration were held in Johannesburg’s Sound and Motion Studios with Joao Orecchia, Murray Turpin, Daniel Stompie Selebi, Ziza Mhlongo and Zubz interpreting and collaborating on 31 March 2008. The resulting sound-scapes are presented by Marcus Neustetter in an unabridged (20m15s) and a shorter (2m52s) version. The sound-scape has been complimented with various installations and an editioned glass artwork produced in the proportions of the glass that separated Neustetter from the sound responses in the recording studio.
Sound-scape audio – 2m52s (2.6MB)
soundlines short
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soundlines overview
For an event of Visi Magazine and Arts on Main (Johannesburg) at the Nirox Foundation (Cradle of Humankind), Bronwyn Lace and Marcus Neustetter creatively responded to the experience of the landscape through large scale drawings, translating a Google Earth Trace image into a landscape intervention. Using wooden poles and white ribbon, the artists raised the “drawing” off the ground at different heights, evoking excavation site grids and geological dig demarcations.
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traces – nirox
Oudtshoorn Trace is a collaborative land art and performance project by Marcus Neustetter and Bronwyn Lace. It was commissioned by ABSA KKNK in April 2009 as part of the larger KKNK festival. In their collaboration, Neustetter and Lace combined their interests in projects that address exploring space, public interaction, performance, installation and land art as well as experimentation with materials.
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Oudtshoorn Trace
Work in Progress installation at the Joburg ArtFair2009 – GALLERY AOP.
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artfair09
On September 10th 2008, billions of particles were smashed together in nano-seconds to
recreate the first moments of the Big Bang, in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s
most powerful particle accelerator. Thousands of scientists worked for decades to achieve
this scientific spectacle “challenging those who seek confirmation of established knowledge,
and those who dare to dream beyond the paradigm”. Nina Czegledy and Marcus Neustetter
were so inspired by a lecture on the LHC that while they had already deliberated and tested
project ideas for several months, they immediately adopted a fresh approach, which led to The
Visual Collider.
For the first exhibited manifestation of The Visual Collider, Nina Czegledy and Marcus
Neustetter are presenting a small segment of their larger vision of an ongoing collision of
images and impressions that take place with each experience by both artists. In some sense,
the exhibition in Korcula becomes a sketch for a Visual Collider that, much like the LHC, can
produce data through reaction, some of which is measured and some of which we are not able
to comprehend or express.
The Visual Collider
Nina Czegledy and Marcus Neustetter
18 . 09 – 10 . 10 . 2009
The Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
Cultural Centre of Vela Luka
Curator: Darko Fritz . grey) (area
Gallery curator: Rada Dragojevic Cosovic
presented by
Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art . Vela Luka
grey) (area – space of contemporary and media art . Korčula
DECro – Digital Exchange Croatia . Zagreb
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The Visual Collider – Vela Luka
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The Visual Collider book
Marcus Neustetter’s exhibition, in two minds in April 2008 at GALLERY AOP, was inspired by his experiences while ascending Mount Kilimanjaro in December 2006. He has subsequently undertaken various experiments to re-enact this experience, and to explore further his perceptions of ‘living between city lights and stars’. one moment is a presentation of photographs, digital traces, drawings and installations that attempt to reflect on the experience of climbing the volcano Mount Teide on Tenerife (Canary Islands) on 11th and 12th October 2009. Neustetter used the exhibition at GALLERY AOP as a moment of contemplation by ‘laying out’ his ideas and findings.
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one moment overview
In collaboration with Bronwyn Lace.
Bringing in 2009’s International year of Astronomy together with the South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland, artists Bronwyn Lace and Marcus Neustetter
launched their project with experimental interventions during the night of New Year’s Eve 2008.
These interventions on the evening of 31st December were a precursor for the following two weeks of activities that resulted in a land-art and kite flying spectacle up to and on the 14th January 2009.
Although Marcus Neustetter’s solo exhibition at Art on Paper Gallery invokes processes of mapmaking – representing space by drawing it in two dimensions on a map – it is not about conventional cartography. Rather, he introduces the element of motion into the mapmaking process, intimating the aspect of time in the exploration of geographical space. In fact, Neustetter’s art is about finding a method of referring to our experience of the coalescence of space and time.
On the last evening of Marcus Neustetter’s ascent of Kilimanjaro in December 2006 the night was so clear that the lights of the city of Moshi at the foot of the mountain seemed to be reflected in the stars in the sky above. The sky could as well have been a map of the landscape below. Neustetter generated digital maps of these reflections exploring the structural similarities of various spaces at specific times. In another, related series of work, Neustetter traces motion through space by holding a pen loosely in his hand while flying in a plane over various parts of South Africa.
In collaboration with David Andrew, the C30 Project initiative began in early 2007 at the P.J. Simelane Secondary School in Dobsonville, Soweto, and has resulted in a series of creative interventions within the school space itself and then at the Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg (October 2007), the Goethe Institut, Johannesburg (October 2008) and in the White Sea space at Konstfack Stockholm (March 2009) . At the school and in the exhibition spaces the project introduced a series of physical and metaphorical disruptions which prompted questions and actions around the relationship between learning and art practice.
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c30 overview 2009