There are a couple of synth fairs on this planet, but one unquestionably stands out - Superbooth. The fair came to Berlin in 2016, but in fact, has a history of more than two decades. It all started in the city of Frankfurt, as a small section of the Musikmesse, dedicated exclusively to synthesizers (...)
Interview: Cornelius Wildner & Erka Shalari
Sound work: Cornelius Wildner

Schneider Rules, 2021

Exhibition: Elsa Martini, DISHEVELED
Presented by Les Nouveaux Riches Magazine
Curated by: Erka Shalari
Sound by: Cornelius Wildner

Exhibition Duration: 29.03. – 19.04.2023, Soft Opening: 30.03.2023, 18 o’clock
On view: Red Carpet Art Award Showroom, Subway station Altes Landgut U1, 1100 Vienna, Austria

I've always been intrigued by Ophelia since she is a mysterious and fascinating character. Her beauty and femme fatale-like ethereal innocence are present at first, and then the energy is released in many details and symbols, such as flowers, trees, and bodies of water, giving you a sense of what has happened and the entire misfortune. Her father, who refers to her as "green girl" or "baby," has set her identity, and as an obedient daughter and sister, she relies on her brother's wisdom and control. She is victimized and tormented by the man she loves, witnesses her father's death, and eventually succumbs to insanity. She is unfortunate, distraught, and dies. Her death is a mystery; she is an unresolved character with contradictory elements. She has been a symbol of femininity since her conception and is still widely misunderstood. Femininity has become synonymous with sexuality, whether by luck or abundance, to an extent that masculinity has never been. Ophelia is an ongoing serial.

A site-specific installation based on the Goan Ophelia is featured in this exhibition. She is DISHEVELED, portrayed with ambivalence and ambiguity. The artwork was designed as an androgynous, hermaphrodite-like model who floats in water in tranquility, neutrality, harmlessness, or Dharma, as well as the site's tropical setting. Ophelia in 2023 can't be any different than ambiverts, with no clear gender, brown skin, and an unthinkable Shakespeare placement. Gender, skin colour, ambiguity, and misogyny will be addressed. Criticize woke advertisements that promote gender dysfunction and mutilation, along with white colonialism. She draws local inspiration from Ardhanarishvara, who represents nature's totality and transcendence of duality.

Words by artist, Elsa Martini, 2023

Binaural - Ophelia - Disheveled. Sound by Cornelius Wildner

03/12/2020 – 30/01/2021   
Artists: Sarri Elfaitouri, Soukaina Joual, Yoshinori Niwa, Kosta Tonev 
curated by Christine Bruckbauer and Elisabeth Piskernik
Soundmapping philomena+: Cornelius Wildner aka Jean Til

The sound of spatiality has always been fundamental for me. I love to voice over my exhibition reviews. The sound is as unique as exhibitions are. In my last articles, I have been collaborating with Cornelius Wildner, Vienna based sound artist. To come at the sounds of the space, artists, curators, gallery assistants are helping. Sometimes, I manage also to record by myself. I love the recorder on my phone; do not like to use professional recording tools. I like imperfect. In the case of this sound map, Cornelius Wildner decided to use sounds from a past exhibition of Soukaina Joual (as she is continuously working with the theme of meat; therefore, a meat grinder noise has been used. Her work at philomena+ is called Arab World as Pieces of Meat); then sounds from self-recording meanwhile visiting the space from outside, handy recording from the phone of the curator (one can hear keys, a hello, the sound of switching on the video player), the voice of artist Yoshinori Niwa reading his "slogan" and fragments from the video Dolls of Kosta Tonev.

Photo: Barbara Palomino

BIG IDEAS. Political Ideologies and their aftermath

Full article: https://www.les-nouveaux-riches.com/myth-till-next-time-piter/

Special thanks to Svetlana Sidorova (artist manager), MYTH Gallery, and Cornelius Wildner for making the space and the location of the gallery from a simple WhatsApp recording into an imaginable, tangible space.

Music: Cornelius Wildner aka Jean Til
Photo Courtesy: MYTH GALLERY. Artist: Anna Afonina

MYTH. Till next time Piter

Sound mapping, creating sound sculptures for accompanying art writing is a project that started March 2020, in collaboration with the Austrian sound artist Cornelius Wildner. Artists, galleries, collections are asked about their respective city- sounds or mundane audio from their daily lives, just en passant with their cellphones. Every time the results are unexpected and exciting. Not knowing what kind of sounds Vera Vladimirsky decided to record and send, it was touching to get fragments of conversation (in a language that none of us knew), vibrant sounds of open bars, street life, the sea, and a warm song sung by a close friend of Vladimirsky, the Berlin-based artist Shlomi Moto Wagner. When asking Wildner about the process of this sound creation:

    Reading Vera Vladimirsky’s interview made me realize that the way I work, also often consists of deconstructing and assembling for creating something totally new. In this work, also trying to incorporate the harshness of the Israeli sun.

Link: https://www.les-nouveaux-riches.com/rephotographing-assemblages/
In: Les Nouveaux Riches Magazine

Artwork: Vera Vladimirsky,  Untitled 1, from the series Shells, 2015, photography, inkjet print, variable dimensi- ons, last exhibited - 15x10cm

Untitled, 2021

Rephotographing Assemblages

CLOSING SOON is located in Kato Petralona district of the Greek capital. It exists right in the middle of residential buildings, small industries, a farmer market, night clubs, and close to the fine arts school. The name of the space embodies many meanings, and all of them are fully factual.

Link:https://www.les-nouveaux-riches.com/closing-soon-gallery-athens/
Bild: Orestis Mavroudis, Feelings, Exhibition view, 2021. From 27 January 2021 to 30 January 2021. Courtesy of the artist & Closing Soon. Photo: Nikos Katsaros

CLOSING SOON. Gallery in Athens

*Artists, galleries, unorthodox or orthodox spaces, are asked about their respective city- sounds or mundane audio from their daily lives, just en passant with their cellphones. NEUTRO Sound „unpacked“ & re-interpreted from Cornelius Wildner

Photo: Courtesy of NEUTRO
Sound: Courtesy of Cornelius Wildner
Interview: by Erka Shalari

In: Les Nouveaux Riches Magazine
Interview Link: https://www.les-nouveaux-riches.com/neutro-reggio-emilia/

Foucault between Rimini & Milano, sound, 02’16’’

PRESENTED BY LES NOUVEAUX RICHES
CURATED by Erka Shalari