For the Ars Electronica festival 2006 the KunstRaum Goethestrasse and servus.at are working together to raise the profile of Goethestraße as a location for artistic and cultural productions and activities. In cooperation with “local” artists space-oriented installations are being presented.
Nicole Knauers large-scale installation “curious implantation” can be visited in the KunstRaum, Goethestraße 22 directly adjacent to the piece “From dust till dawn” by Markus Decker/Dietmar Offenhuber at Goethestraße 30 every day from 2 pm to 10 pm. The pre-opening viewing of these exhibitions will take place on Wednesday, 30 August 2006 at 9 pm.

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Curious Implantation CURIOUS IMPLANTATION is a project by artist Nicole Knauer in cooperation with KunstRaum Goethestrasse, Linz (A). It is an installation that transgresses space representing a hybrid creation made of synthetic cable ties that the artist has combined in an unconventional and quite personal way. Its dimensions are extended through costumes, videos, photographies and transformation through interaction. The translucent, ephemeral but also transient characteristics of the artist's favorite materials and shapes that are represented in this installation can be regarded as a metaphor for the sphere between reality and absurdity. The artist's aim is to use synthetic waste products other than originally intended. A half million white synthetic cable ties have been combined manually to create a 50 qm sculpture as well as costumes that mutate into utopian formations and hybrid creations.

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From dust till dawn Dust behaves unpredictably and is difficult to control. Besides that it is not especially popular, being regarded as "dirt" in our culture. As elusive as time seems to us it nevertheless leaves physical traces in the form of dust. The installation "From dust till dawn" kicks up a lot of dust and produces noise in the form of acoustic traces. The dust and atmosphere in the empty room form the installation’s interactive medium. Dust is identified by a surface laser and a photographic identification system and becomes a highly unusual means of interaction. A grid of line lasers installed just above the floor produces a homogeneous carpet of light which is at first invisible. Objects and particles that pierce this carpet, such as dust, cigarette smoke or larger objects, become visible in the laser beams as a silhouette or an outline. The outlines and dust patterns are recorded and their two-dimensional movements converted to sound on an xy raster synthesizer. Every step the visitor makes, indeed his or her mere presence, sets the air moving and causes dust to swirl up. We are dealing with a fragile interactive medium here which is barely controllable and robs the term tangible media of its intangibility: you are advised not to wear clothes that are easily soiled. The project has been developed in cooperation with servus.at

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Nicole Knauer/D
Geb.1967 in Überlingen/Deutschland, lebt in München/D und Linz/A. Studium an der Universität für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung, Linz/A und Grafik&Kommunikationsdesign in München/D. Zahlreiche internationales Ausstellungsprojekte und Stipendium in den Bereichen Kunst im öffentlicher Raum, Kunst am Bau, Video/Fotografie, Konzeptkunst,Installation, künstlerische Intervention, Malerei und Grafik in Deutschland, Österreich, Luxenburg, Kroatien, Portugal, Kosovo, Japan.
http://www.nicole-knauer.de/