Please note: These exhibitions are located at the PS122 Gallery in NYC and at the CREATE Gallery in Catskill NY, respectively.
Hajoe Moderegger, CCNY Professor of Art, was one of the recipients of the 2022-2023 Rifkind Fellowhship, which helped make possible the work being shown at the following two exhibits.
Semi-Conducting Hand-Held Moons
Participating Artists: lololol (Sheryl Cheung & Xia Lin), eteam (Franziska Lamprecht & Hajoe Moderegger)
PS122 Gallery
150 First Avenue
November 4, 2023 – December 17, 2023
A two artist-collaborative multi-channel video installation with works by eteam (Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger) and lololol.net (Xia Lin and Sheryl Cheung).
Eteam’s room will show work of the series Our Non-Understanding of Everything
Our Non-Understanding of Everything
Participating Artists: eteam (Franziska Lamprecht & Hajoe Moderegger)
CREATE Gallery
398 Main St, Catskill, NY 12414-1334
October 13, 2023 – November 12, 2023
A multi-channel video installation by eteam (Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger). The exhibition is co-organized by CREATE Council on the Arts and Wave Farm.
"Our Non-Understanding of Everything" is an immersive video installation, in which eteam invites us to expand ideas about the emotional and rational relationships we have with our personal tech devices. We know what we want from our smart phones - to improve our lives. But since we live in a state of intense interdependency with our constantly evolving technological companions, shouldn’t we also ask what do they want and need from us in return? What lives would they like to lead outside of the cruel working hours we inflict on them? How would the relationship with our technologies change, if we let them alone.
What would change if they spent more time outdoors swaying on a giant leaf, what could happen if they are immersed in a stream with water gurgles all around, the sun tickling their shiny surface, a spider builds a net around them? Would there be a response?
eteam’s project started 2021 during a pandemic lockdown in Taipei, when Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger, met outdoors with the artists Xia Lin and Sheryl Cheung (both comprise the collaborative lololol) in Sun Yat Sen Park Taipei to explore, through hands on experiments, a set of urgent questions: Should we/could we consider/worship our smart devices like deities in order to honor the spiritual connections we have with them and their connected technologies? How can we entertain and relax our smart devices? How can we actually make them smarter and more content? Should we resist the manufacturing platforms’ push for faster and more capable chips, higher resolution responsive screens and faster connections to WIFI and cellular data? Isn’t it imperative – for their understanding of the world – to directly expose the fast-developing intelligence of our smart devices to the powers, the plights, the destruction and the incredible beauties of our natural environments, let them receive and interact with unlimited molecular data instead of limited cellular data? What do they need to know about the immediate consequences of climate change?
After eteam returned to the Hudson Valley in the late summer of 2021 they turned these questions into a daily practice. Over the course of two years they initiated, observed, and documented encounters between their smart devices, the natural environments in which they live, and the proximity to massively huge architectural grids like NYC, continuously mediating on the essence of our smart devices. What are they in their very core? How does the structures of architecture, semiconductors, and circuits become forms of expression reflecting hierarchies, cognitive processes, political thoughts and relationships to the natural environment.
eteam’s project “Our Non-Understanding of Everything” consists of 16 one-channel videos, some of which will be shown in a rotating manner during the run of the exhibitions –therewith inviting audiences to return to the space on a regular basis to watch the iterations of the theme.
eteam’s work shown in the exhibitions was supported through a 2021 Fulbright Research Scholarship to Taiwan, a 2023 NYSCA grant, a 2020 PSC-CUNY Research Award and a City College of New York 2023 Rifkind Center Fellowship.
eteam is a two person collaboration (Franziska Lamprecht & Hajoe Moderegger.) Since 2001 eteam uses video, performance, installation, and writing to instigate and articulate encounters at the edges of diverging cultural, technical and aesthetical universes. eteam’s narratives have screened internationally in video- and film festivals, they have lectured in universities, presented in art galleries and museums, and performed in the desert, on fields, in caves and on mountaintops, in ships, black box theaters, and horse-drawn wagons.
https://www.meineigenheim.org/portfolio/
lololol is a boundless laughter, an endless extension of lol (laugh out loud), an acronym that appears to be constructed by the building blocks of I-Ching and/or computer code. Founded by Xia Lin and Sheryl Cheung in 2013, the artist collective focuses on how emotions and body politics are informed by diverse technology cultures, with special interest in martial arts and Tao-informed philosophies. Their scope of technological interests ranges from ancient knowledge of martial arts, medicine to all kinds of contemporary inventions. “Future Tao” is the group’s ongoing initiative to engage with Taoist mind and body practices as an alternative approach to technological exploration.