KONTEJNER’s curator Olga Majcen Linn talks to Erich Berger about time scales, deep time and deep future explorations, northern ecosystems, radical witnessing and spectral landscapes, as well as Bioart Society activities, following up on the “Life as an object” symposium at Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana (February 2022).
Erich Berger is an artist, curator and cultural worker based in Helsinki. His artistic interests lie in information processes and feedback structures, which he investigates through installations, situations, performances and interfaces. Throughout his artistic practice he has explored the materiality of information and information and technology as artistic material. His current interest in issues of deep time and hybrid ecology led him to work with geological processes, radiogenic phenomena and their socio-political implications in the here and now. As director of the Bioart Society he develops opportunities which create transdisciplinary encounters and work situations between professionals from art, natural science, technology and the humanities, recognizing science and technology as fundamental transformative powers of our life world. Berger has exhibited widely in museums, galleries and major media-art events in Europe and worldwide.
Olga Majcen Linn graduated Art History and Comparative literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Engaged in curatorial work since 2002 through NGO KONTEJNER, she has founded the NGO and authored many renowned international projects (Device_art, Touch Me, Extravagant bodies). Since 2003, she has been working at the Gallery VN in Zagreb, where she presents young and emerging Croatian artists. In this gallery, Majcen Linn has organized over 120 exhibitions. She is also active in the field of social theory and critique: she has worked and written for the TV show Transfer, the radio show Kretanje točke, T-portal, the journals Zarez and Život umjetnosti, Up&Underground, etc. She is a member of the international board of the Beijing triennial of new media arts, and a member of AICA.
Production: KONTEJNER, 2022
Audio editing: Filip Pacak