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Nik, the Sleeper<\/strong><\/p>\n SF Exploitation \/ Performative Installation<\/strong><\/p>\n A fragmentary perceptual space and body that combines pulsed textual content, diffuse imagery, states of self-forgetfulness, alienating afterglow effects, reduced movement. A connected unconsiousness and observing postglow of mind-mining and self-fracking.<\/strong><\/p>\n The sleeping body as an organ of thought, a connected consciousness as a network, a sleeping land beneath the waking state, the sleep of the many as an entity: Nik, the Sleeper<\/em> is a spatial sci-fi exploitation story told in scraps of text. Nik<\/em> deals with body, consciousness and technology. It engages in historical debris research on electricity, for example, and points to a techno-future as a potentially larger, connective unconscious network. Between algorithmic underground consciousness and self-fracking, however, the installation swallows almost all of its content. A fragmentary perceptual space emerges that combines pulsed textual content, diffuse imagery, states of creativity and self-forgetfulness, elements from regular sleep measurement, alienating afterglow effects, and elements of reduced movement economy.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n As Pulsed Text<\/strong><\/p>\n Nik Dreams of the Dead Artists:<\/strong><\/p>\n Nik, the Sleeper, Minus 8<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n As Text Panel<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Thank you for publishing this manifesto. I read that the artists are now dead. Another loss. Too bad about the artists. One has to say goodbye to them. But often what was said about them had nothing to do with what they did or thought anyway. They were interpreted and placed to avoid too much contradiction. Today, we produce objects that create less dissonance. <\/b><\/p>\n Sitting in the Nirgendwo<\/span><\/p>\n Skepticism about entropy itself<\/span><\/p>\n Indirect work<\/span><\/p>\n in the interior<\/span><\/p>\n Making meltdown objects<\/span><\/p>\n from Egomantel reinforced concrete<\/span><\/p>\n reverse reading direction<\/span><\/p>\n and extract opinion like crude oil<\/span><\/p>\n it’s still the content, stupid<\/span><\/p>\n and sometimes still go out<\/span><\/p>\n Instead of art now<\/span><\/p>\n deal with rocks<\/span><\/p>\n and anti-gravity<\/span><\/p>\n with plants and radiation<\/span><\/p>\n increase contradiction<\/span><\/p>\n and from brushwood and thoughts<\/span><\/p>\n make a TOE<\/span><\/p>\n Seize the means of contradiction of<\/span><\/p>\n Die Welt ist alles, was Zerfall ist<\/span><\/p>\n Die Welt ist alles, was einem einf\u00e4llt<\/span><\/p>\n With the Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything<\/span><\/p>\n and the Connection with Everything<\/span><\/p>\n and the Physics of Relationships<\/span><\/p>\n with Beautiful, Strong and Electroweak<\/span><\/p>\n settle under the Golden Peak<\/span><\/p>\n and personify the system E8 <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n (Plus: Nik dreams in german language)<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n STAGING – Video NOT ONLINE<\/strong><\/p>\n Some pictures and staging of Nik, the Sleeper: here<\/a> and here<\/a><\/em> (scroll down).<\/p>\n An associated text on the project\/artist appeared in Versorgerin 135: Tanja Brandmayr, 2022<\/p>\n Project shown at\u00a0 STWST48x8 DEEP. 48 Hours Disconnected Connecting<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tanja Brandmayr<\/em><\/strong> (AT) is artist and writer and has been working for many years and in different contexts between text, media, staging and art. Art and context research Quasikunst in cooperation with STWST. Also editor and author for art and culture magazines. Lives in Linz\/Austria. https:\/\/quasikunst.stwst.at<\/a><\/p>\n First Photo: Astrid Benzer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Nik, the Sleeper SF Exploitation \/ Performative Installation A fragmentary perceptual space and body that combines pulsed textual content, diffuse imagery, states of self-forgetfulness, alienating afterglow effects, reduced movement. A connected unconsiousness and observing postglow of mind-mining and self-fracking. The sleeping body as an organ of thought, a connected consciousness as a network, a sleeping land beneath the waking state, the sleep of the many as an entity: Nik,<\/p>\n
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