Transactions
11 June till 10 July 2016
University of Zurich, Main Building, Künstlergasse 12
In “Transactions,” roughly 15 artistic projects are juxtaposed by the same number of scholarly projects related to various aspects of the biennial’s theme: What people do for money. For instance, Stephan Leins’s ethnographic research on economic analysts is mirrored in Rosalie Schweiker's Tarot readings. The video productions of the Zurich duo Baltensperger + Siepert on Chinese migrant laborers stands in stark contrast to traditional Chinese pottery that researchers examine at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich as well as to the research on displaced persons in Congo by political geographer Stephan Hochleithner.
By taking part in the on-site experiment by the Department of Banking and Finance, visitors can answer the big question: And what do YOU do for money? In other projects, the Canadian artist duo Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens converts statistics on efficiency at work into tangible three-dimensional sculptures, while sound artist Fritz Hauser traces the sounds and rhythms of laboratories and lecture halls, condensing them into a compact sound installation.
