08 Jun 2021, 17:00
Location: Karlsplatz
Artist Talk: Verena Tscherner and Joerg Auzinger
The artist duo talks about art in the times of climate change and about their interactive media sculpture “Collective Action Viewer“ at Karlsplatz. Moderation: Katharina Gsöllpointner
The impulse and location for this artist talk is the Collective Action Viewer, a media installation by Verena Tscherner and Joerg Auzinger in public space at Karlsplatz.
The consequences of the global climate crisis are still abstract and diffuse for many people. With their work, the artist duo makes the effects of the global climate catastrophe visible and comprehensible for viewers in the Viennese urban space at Karlsplatz. A glance through binoculars - and a virtually animated flood scenario is reversed.
The talk will be moderated by Katharina Gsöllpointner, head of the International Programs for Sustainable Developments department, who is intensively involved with art and the digital, especially in times of climate change. An explosive topics that Tscherner/Auzinger are pursuing in their current artistic work and that will be discussed together.
The media sculpture on Karlsplatz will be open to the public for the entire duration of the Vienna Biennale for Change 2021, daily from 12:00–dawn.
The artist talk takes place within the preview program of this year‘s Angewandte Festival.
The Collective Action Viewer is a contribution of the University of Applied Arts Vienna to the Vienna Biennale for Change 2021, co-produced by Angewandte Innovation Lab.
Joerg Auzinger is an alumni and Verena Tscherner a current student at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.