Portfolio i Daniela Müller Film
Books, 2017, riso print, edition of 30 Webproject: internetprojects.gallery/dontrest-narrate DONT REST, NARRATE (THE EXQUISITE CORPSE) During the PRAKSIS residency For a rainy day: Publishing as a site of collectivization, a number of collaborative actions were developed. One of these was a written version of the Surrealist drawing game, «The Exquisite Corpse». A participant would write a line; another would respond to it in writing, fold the paper so the first line was concealed, hand the paper to the next participant and so on. The webproject animates the writing and imagery generated in the course of the game. Words, symbols and actions flicker across the dark screen, bringing together individual texts from the eight artists in poetic and playful combinations. This digital publication is in conversation with its parallel printed form developed in the Guttormsgaards archive in Blaker. The books contain all the underlined text passages from the archives copy of «War and Peace in the Global Village» by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore. The images in the book are coming from the Guttormsgaard active archive. Each motive is printed and appearing different in every book to continue the algorythm into the printed form. The cover works as a window to my online and print publication, where I transform written text to animated online text and an agile ordering into print. internetprojects.gallery/dontrest-narrate guttormsgaard.activearchives.org
Books, webproject, 2017 Exhibition «Dont rest, narrate», Guttormsgaards archive, Blaker, Norway Produced during the PRAKSIS Residency, Oslo
Performance, 2017, 3 hours, part: learning from the virtual trainer Performers: Per Westerlund, Maria Belic, Daniela Müller Vandaler Forening, Oslo Performance, part: shadow-boxing on the field OPASNE KRIVINE/DANGEROUS CURVES «OPASNE KRIVINE» is a collaborative project with Maria Belic and Per Westerlund. By day a boxing group were shadow boxing alongside one another, following certain patterns of the field. They discovered the area and carefully showed the birds various boxing training steps they had learned from their teacher on the internet. Their virtual training had somehow panned out. (Yes! Yes! Yes!) Defining training goals to achieve was decided without hesitation and with full compassion. As the sun, would set, the group would share with the plants and the birds and the seeds what they had learned. They decided on a technique they named sit and think or walk and wonder. The format was used for reflection, as they would often sit down and start writing short paragraphs, and preparation for their speeches. In case they had trouble, they would think outload and discuss it with the birds for feedback. Then as the morning came; 3 rounds. Lasting an hour each. In the collaborative performance «OPASNE KRIVINE» shown at Vandaler Forening we combined writing with physical activity. We learned boxing during the performance from a internet teacher, sat down to think and write and held speeches to the flowers in the garden. The performance lasted three hours.
Performance, part: writing / sit and think
Performance, 2017, 1 hours, part: learning from the virtual trainer Performers: PRAKSIS residents PUB, Oslo Stream inside PUB OPASNE KRIVINE/DANGEROUS CURVES with PRAKSIS PRAKSIS s For A Rainy Day: Publishing As A Site Of Collectivization residents take over Torpedo s space for Bjørvika Art Night. Join the group and engage with Belic, Müller and Westerlund as they stage a performative intervention between Torpedo s space and the public via video-streaming. For PUB/Torpedo located in the Barcode area in Oslo we worked with the residents from PRAKSIS. PUB is a platform for exploring and discussing the act of publishing. We followed as a group a self defense Martial Art «how to» video and performed it on the street in front of PUB. At the same time we were streamed inside the space with an delay and online via youtube. In short breaks we all sat down and wrote texts in our notebooks. The performance lasted one hour. Documentation of the stream: goo.gl/s4vmmx
Performance, part: writing / sit and think
Book, 2016, published by Amsel Verlag Jennifer In 2014, private photos of several young, female celebrities were stolen from data storage services and released on the Internet publicly and on porn sites. Jennifer Lawrence was one of them. The incidents generated public interest not only due to the implicit voyeurism or because it was so peculiar what Lawrence and others had done but because it was so common and still so private. The specific nature of the photos and the act of stealing and sharing them though made it difficult to establish a profound discourse on the involved issues of mediated identity, intimacy, privacy, seduction just to name a few. Looking at these selfies and feeling touched by their banality and explosive nature at the same time, I decided to send individual photos to female friends and acquaintances and asked them to freely write about the photo without telling them were they came from or whom they showed. The resulting compilation of texts features poetic structures such as repetitions, variations, lapses, and counterpoints. The photos disappear behind the texture of descriptions and interpretations that might point to our own selfies. Jennifer is a softcover book, printed in one pink Pantone color, published by Amsel Verlag. Based on the book there were different presentations, one was held in a room illuminated by pink light where women recited a remix of the book. The other was an installation of the books in a display with an additional soundpiece of the spoken remix.
Performance, 2016, transparency rosco e-colour+ «Flesh Pink» Toni Areal, Zurich
Books, sound, 10 minutes, 2016 Exhibition «CTRL + [SELF]: Intimacy, Extimacy & Control in the Age of the Overexposure of Self», Studio XX, Montréal Part of the feminist festival of media arts and digital cultures «HTMLLES 16» with the years theme «Terms of Privacy»
Sound installation and intervention in public space (A4 posters), 2015 Are you ready to satisfy your girl tonight? Desire. The evolution of fish, fisherman and fishing baits. Fishing baits are companion species of fish and fishermen. Created to attract, seduce and catch. First the fishermen in the shop. Then the fish in the water. Hooked by creatures with bright silicone bodies and slender fins. All of them emerge together, shaped by fish-desire. bait 1. something edible 2. an enticement; temptation bait from Old Norse beita to hunt, persecute; related to Old English bætan to restrain, hunt I want you. I want you to be my fish. I want you to be my fisherman. I want you to eat me. I want to be in your stomach. I want to be in your brain. I want to be in your heart. I want to dance in front of you until you are hooked. I want you to desire me. I want to make you irresistible, too. I want you to chase my delicate legs. I want you to touch my plastic body. I want you to admire the colour of my skin. I want you to smell me. I want you to join my artificial nature. I want to be your companion. I want to fuck with you, very much. Text by Melanie Eva Boehi Sound piece generated from spam mails spoken by text to speech programs. Several A4 posters of four same but different plastic baits placarded in the public space in the vicinity of the exhibition. www.vimeo.com/147039142
Sound installation, 10:40 minutes, 2015 Exhibition «Are you ready to satisfy your girl tonight?», Stellwerk, Kassel
Video, HD, 13 minutes, 2013 THE MAYBES Seven people give advice. Their gazes meet the eyes of the spectator. They seem tender, sometimes vigorous, sometimes detached. Over time they disagree with each other as well as with themselves. Its a vague state, except the safety the viewer constructs by herself. The green screen comprises every option, everything or nothing. The technical colour is a maybe, the seven persons and their statements are maybes. Its open to the viewers how they conceive the advice and what they will do with it. Therefore the spectators are also maybes. The texts are elaborated from personal sessions with fortunetellers, which I transliterated, screened and rearranged, a remix of different advice. The video is split into three thematic segments: love, happiness, and success. www.vimeo.com/72108070
Video, HD, 13 minutes, 2013 Exhibition «Master Degree Show 13», Zurich University of the Arts
«camomilla» «canari» «spanish street dogs» EVERYTHING LASTS FOREVER «Everything lasts forever» is a collaborative work with Maria Belic. Together or independent we create loops, which we arrange as a collaboration. They are little stories and fantasies, rearranged every time. In the exhibition our sound piece «rymdfärjan till himmlen» plays in a loop, a projected cup is rotating, a video of dogs begging for food on the floor, Maria braiding the hair of a boy, I am dancing in a video to a Italian hip-hop song called «when you are coming back.» Two girls are running with a rainbow fabric at a beach, the one behind the camera tries to get after them. There is a karaoke like text added to the video to sing along of the Croatian song «Kad si bila mala Mare». «When you were young Mare, when you were young Mare you loved the sea. Now you are grown up Mare, now you are grown up Mare, and now you love the sailors.» Our project revolves around relationship-specific themes like desire, obsession and idealization, bringing together different kind of media and several looped videos. The central form in all the works is rotary motion. In the performance at the Kunstverein in Zurich we changed our roles and showered each other alternately. At the exhibition at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design we wore the costumes of a bankrupt salsa club and engaged the exhibition visitors as a dance group joining us to do a couple dance. www.vimeo.com/40553798
Performance, 2011 Exhibition «Everything lasts forever», Kunstverein Zürich Video installation, 2011 Exhibition «Everything lasts forever», Kunstverein Zürich
LED open sign with neon appearance: USD553691 S1 This invention is intended for use as an «open sign» and can be used in both outdoor and indoor applications. Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a LED open sign with neon appearance. Fig. 2 is a front view. Fig. 3 is a rear view; and, Fig. 4 is a front view of the lit portion only. OPEN The «Reto Ganz Raum» is a rather unpopular working space for students and is most of the time not used. I wondered how many open signs from shops in the city I could borrow to exhibit them in this space for one evening. I asked mostly in the red light district and in the end got seven different signs. A Thai take-away, a bar, Subway sandwich, a bong shop and some kiosks let me lend out their signs. I arranged them in opposition to their original function as objects, hanging from the ceiling, leaning against the wall and lying on the ground. The only light in the room was the one from the signs. The next day I brought them all back to the owners.
Installation, open signs, 2011 Exhibition «OPEN», Reto Ganz Raum, Zurich