Angelique Spanoudis & Jan Lauth: Personal Paradox

The outer appearance, a flood of over a hundred terms of optimised “I statements” relating to the global crisis. Am I more eco-conscious and climate-neutral – than the next? Despair and excuses lead to one’s own green washing … Can the paradox help to find peace in the overload of dystopian news?
Is reduction funny, naïve, or as crude as the permanently necessary suppression? Indeed, it is a liberating and obligatory option, to mirror oneself and the next observer/user with terms of everyday transgressions. The self-whitewasher is not feminine, therefore the terms are left in masculine.
Additional terms can be sent to the monitor-mirror. We curate our lives and present the best traits to the outside. The paradoxical intervention demands the contrary, the critically elevated art term about the dystopian present.

Joint work of the artist group JALS / SPANOUDIS LAUTH.

Biographies:

Angelique Spanoudis lives and works as a media artist and designer in Vienna.
Exhibitions and perfomances among others ContentArt/Vienna, Künstlerhaus/Vienna, MAKnight Vienna to Zurich/Kunst-Expo.

Jan Lauth is alumni and lecturer at the University of Applied Arts. Co-founder of many festivals and organizations for Viennese visualist art such as equalEyes, mediaOpera, seeLab among others.

Since 2018 Spanoudis / Lauth work in the artist collective JALS.

Photo : JALS / SPANOUDIS LAUTH 2021