Sitcom Architecture

2022

Solo exhibition at Kevin Space in Vienna, AT. February 26-April 09

A site specific installation at Kevin Space, Sitcom Architecture is meant to think about the relation between media and architecture and systems of cultural production, by merging the real gallery Kevin Space with the space of a fictional television sitcom. The installation divides the galleries according to the parts of a television studio with an accompanying audio work, each of which follows a different point of view in the filming of the sitcom, which has begun to spin out of control. By juxtaposing these different aspects of televisual production, the work explores the various roles in the formation of mass media narratives, and the ways that writing, editing, and construction build towards a certain psycho-cultural production. By collapsing this space with Kevin Space, the analogy is extended into the production of art: all the vocal roles in the audio piece are performed by artists who have shown at Kevin Space, turning the gallery's history of exhibitions into a kind of "cast".

From the Press Release:

"Sitcom Architecture is conceived as an infrastructure that enables a continuous process of editing and the production of overlapping subjectivities. Within an implied setting of an abandoned TV studio, three figures—the writers, the editor, and the carpenter—constitute different protagonists that inhabit the production space and are embroiled in unlikely and catastrophic conversations, recorded in three audio pieces: The Writers, located under a seating tribune in the audience space off stage, pondering the dissolving domesticity of the sitcom architecture through the figure of the ‘dad’ barricading the front door and thus his realm of power-exertion; The Carpenter as the physical producer of the set silhouetted by the make-shift wall and a rolled out carpet to suggest a domestic sphere contemplating the material registers constituting contemporary image-based reality and subjecthood; The Editor in the third and back space—a storage with props arranged by the artist—takes on a central role in the creation of the sitcom architecture and authority on how the individual rooms interact with each other, and how experiences are manufactured."