Aram Bartholl – Blog

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Dust Excerpt 1

at Winter Prison, Sherbrooke, Quebec
part of the show http://espaceimmedia.org/ August 1 – 17, 2013

Wow!! the production and installation of this piece went really well, and the outcome is beyond expectations! :)) Thx so much to the whole team at sporobole.org making this possible and thx for all the excellent work! Special thx to Éric Desmarais & François Quévillon!!

Production preview of a new piece which will be shown in Qubec end of the month. 20 crates of different sizes (up to 2 m/6 feet high!) from Counterstrike dust map will be stacked and arranged in a old prison yard in Sherbrooke. I m very excited to see the first pictures of the production! :))
CU at the opening!!

Aram Bartholl – Dust Excerpt 1 Liminal Spaces / Germany /
July 31 to August 17 / Winter Prison courtyard / 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Winter Prison, which was closed in 1990, is one of Sherbrooke’s oldest buildings. With Dust Excerpt 1, its
courtyard is taken over by pixellated crates from a popular map in the computer game Counter-Strike. By
setting up interactions between the architecture and history of worlds with distinct realities, the installation
examines the different codes and forms of behaviour we adopt in « real life » and in virtual environments,
as well as how these spaces are inscribed in the collective memory. Through his interventions in public
space and his performances, workshops, exhibitions and curatorial activities, Aram Bartholl explores the
social, cultural and political impact of digital technology and the Internet.

Espace [IM] Média 2013
Sherbrooke, Quebec
July 31st to September 22nd 2013.

with : Gordon Monahan, Aram Bartholl, Niklas Roy, Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno, Isabelle Hayeur, Nelly-Ève Rajotte, Jonathan Sterne, Brandon LaBelle, Chantal Dumas, Erin Gee, Anna Raïmondo, Jo Longhurst, Myriam Yates, Marie-Andrée Houde, Virginie Laganière, Jacinthe Lessard-L, Aude Moreau, Martin Tétreault & Michel
Langevin, Steve Bates, Louis « Bobo » Boutin, Thomas Bégin and many more…

Co-curated by Jean-Pierre Aubé, François Quévillon, Philippe-Aubert Gauthier and Sébastien Pesot.

I am very much looking forward to a pretty massive Dust crates install at Espace[IM]media in Sheerbroke upcoming August :)) Thx for the preview Eric! Thx for all the feedback Francois!

Dust excerpt I
Aram Bartholl, 2013 at
Espace[IM]media,
Sheerbroke, Canada
1.8.-29.9.13

Love this!! Grand father of game mod culture meets latest super star in mod heaven. :))

… results in this recent game: Ace of Spades

First tests and surface samples for Dust in our backyard in Berlin Wdding.

Dust Crate 1
64 x 64 x 64 cm, 250 kg
Concrete

Aram Bartholl
2012

Three generations of  ‘bomb spot A’  in de_dust: 1999, 2004, 2012

“chsrst … bomb has been planted..chcrtt”  … beep beep beep …

(My new wallpaper,  detail from de_dust CS1.6.)

see also Dust Rhizome Commission