Asher O'Gorman: stroke all the colours out of the sky
a portrayal of the artist’s process
Asher O’Gorman
Foto: Ciwan Veysel
Asher O’Gorman ist Absolventin von TransArts
Did
you ever spend time standing next to a sculpture wondering how it came into being? Asher O’Gorman works in collaboration with
three Vienna-based visual artists Sophia Gatzkan, Julia Haugeneder and Lukas Hochrieder who work within the medium of sculpture
and object art to discover, choreograph and reveal their physical process within the art of making.
“The line of today is not the line of tomorrow.
Shaving skin, full buckets, crumbling the reminiscence
of clay worms scooped into urns, to hold,
the death and life of an artwork coming into being. Slaughtering.
Squeezing
blueish nuances tight.
Forms of pleasure and work, busy to evoke, busy to be, borrowed from sites of memory.
A reason
to touch, a move to seduce, a shape that might hold —
brace and be braced”.
Asher O’Gorman, 2022
Three
visual artists perform a composed account of them at work. The performance exhibits ‘the artist process' which entails elements
of the precarious and the phenomenal; The unravelling of the ravelled; Ritual and spectacle; The edge of “failure”; Intimacy
and vulnerability. Buckets of glue, rolls of plaster, slabs of clay, red bricks and strips of metal perform as the artists
generously allow the usually hidden sight of them 'making' to emerge. They move between skilful, practical movements, new
experiences and revisit biographical events which tease perceptions of what's real and what's imagined. Multidisciplinary
artist Christa L. Wall creates the sonic layer for this work. Following the performance, the audience is invited to view an
exhibition of the inscribed objects.
Irish artist Asher
O’Gorman works both as a dancer & maker in various collaborative settings. Her work is a meeting of choreographic
and visual art practices that open out the metaphysical manner in which we engage with objects and each other. Asher holds
a B.A.(Honours) in choreography from Dartington College of Arts (UK): Graduated from dance and choreographic training in (SEAD)
Salzburg in 2008: Completed her MA with distinction at the TransArts Department, University of Applied Arts, Vienna 2021.
In the brut-programme Asher O’Gorman has been featured before with the project the way of ink ••o• (2020), Other recent works
from her include: if a bee falls in(to) a box (2021), petals on wet black tarmac (2022).
Christa L. Wall
is an Austrian multidisciplinary artist based in Vienna. With a tentacular way of thinking, Christa Wall touches on the space
between performance and singing, poetry and ritual, folk culture and queerness. Her/Their work unravels aqueous poetic soundings
and luring chants.
Julia Haugeneder is a sculptor living in Vienna. Her practice is fed by an
interest in everyday objects, film history and contemporary philosophy. She has had numerous exhibition participations in
museums, institutions as well as galleries.
Lukas Hochrieder lives and works in Vienna. He studied
visual arts at the Academy of fine Arts Vienna and Paris & Theater-, Film- and Media Studies (University of Vienna). He
works within sculpture, drawing, installation, and site-specific practice.
Sophia Gatzkan is a
visual artist, based in Vienna. In her work lies an ongoing fascination with the subject of the human body as a complex field
of power relations. She had various exhibitions in Austria and Abroad. Also Sophia had various collaborations within the performing
art field shown locally and in Sweden.
The show on 30 January will be followed by an artist talk.
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