soundtrack for the "high-energy objects" installation in WKV Stuttgart, Post-Peace group exhibition 2015-2017, Aleksei Taruts.
vocal performance by Körpa Klauz.
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"the portal is entered elsewhere"
performance, audio installation 2018

excerpt from a 3 hour long dj set during the Simultanhalle / MMOMA exhibition set up.


Aleksei Taruts's work mostly involves performative and situational practice. In his projects the artist draws the viewer’s attention to the topic of an event, its production and representation. Taruts considers an event itself as a performative medium, a symbolic object of instantaneous cultural exchange in the age of semiocapitalism. In his works Taruts examines the neuroses of contemporaneity shaped by the obsession for immediate representation and the politics of «post truth», disenchantment by internet and overexposure to wow-effects.

Frequently Taruts uses sound and music as means to reflect on the affects produced by mass culture and other power structures. 

A sonic environment compiled of nature sounds,  mutant creatures SFX and relaxation music mixed with remote echoes of roaring EDM festivals. This soundscape can be envisioned as symbolical distance between the inaccessible event and the illusion of avoiding it. 

The performance took a form of a dj set that happened during the open-to-public exhibition set up at MMOMA. The DJ set was recorded and installed as part of the whole the show.

simultanhalle.de/aktuell

15.01.2018 - 12.02.2018 Die Stadt dringt in das Haus
mit Christian Aberle (*1974, Ebersbach, DE), Lisa Busche (*1973, Hamburg, DE), Sarah Lehnerer (*1987, München, DE), Nadine Städler (*1979, Hildesheim, DE), Aleksei Taruts (*19XX, Moscow, RUS), Julia Weißenberg (*1982, Bergisch Gladbach, DE)
Die zweite Ausstellungsphase heißt `Die Stadt dringt in das Haus`. Hier verschränken sich die namensgebende Simultaneität der Simultanhalle und das Prinzip der Simultaneität in der futuristischen Malerei, wenn die Stadt, plötzlich transparent gemacht, thematisch in den Ausstellungsraum drängt. Mediale und institutionelle Räume greifen ineinander, klassische Grenzen zwischen Malerei, Skulptur und Sound, wie auch die zwischen Museum und Off-Space werden aufgelöst. Entgegen üblicher institutioneller Rahmenbedingungen soll dementsprechend bereits im Aufbauprozess der zweiten Phase der Besuch der Ausstellung und somit ein Dialog zwischen Moskau und Köln möglich sein.

the portal is entered elsewhere (Excerpt)

Aleksei Taruts is a cross media / trans disciplinary artist whose practice mainly involves performative and situational works along with mixed media installations. The key issue in the artist’s research is the problematization of the concept of “event” as a unit of symbolic exchange. The artist interprets the modes of presence and distance relative to the event, formed by the affects of the cultural industry of the era of late capitalism. The area of interests of Taruts also includes manifestations of the irrational, caused by technologies of immediate representation and dispersion of attention, as well as the type of memory produced by unstable connections.

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