Chico MacMurtrie
Amorphic Robot Works (NYC)
Euro Border Crosser Chico MacMurtrie · Amorphic Robot Works (NYC)
Procession and Activation of the Euro Border Crosser on Friday, June 21, 2019
at
the MuseumsQuartier from 16h–22h
The Euro Border Crosser is the result of a cross-departmental project at the University
of Applied Arts Vienna dealing with the development of robotic sculptures (Border Crossers) in a course the artist held.
Artistic team:
Chico MacMurtrie with Sara Bissen, Ferdinand Doblhammer, Moritz
Durauer,
Maximilian Fink, Georg Holzmann, Gea Kalkhof, Maximilian
Köb, Johannes Krumböck, Anetta Luberda, Jakob Steixner, Lola
Verger
“Border Crossers” is a large-scale performance and participatory procession involving a series of lightweight
robotic sculptures that poetically explore the notion of borders. The “Border Crossers” performance series stages a peaceful,
symbolic, “crossing” of borders around the world using the combined power of art, technology and community.
When
the Border Crossers reach their maximum height (approximately 10 meters), a coiled fabric tendril gradually unfurls into an
arch-like shoot that “grows” over the border and touches down on the other side. The project treats the border as a physical
condition that can be temporarily transcended by technological proxies. It offers a critique of militarized geopolitical borders,
and a metaphorical suspension of those borders.
The New York based artist Chico MacMurtrie was resident in the
Angewandte Residency Program and visiting professor at the Department Art and Communication Practices (kkp) in 2018. The lecture
series accompanies a cross-departmental project dealing with the development of robotic sculptures (Border Crossers).
