isolated bodies
behind glaring screens
connected Isolation
within private walls

Die augmented Reality Video Installation
„sk.in touch“ an der Fassade des Sandkasten Syndikats, thematisiert die Einsamkeit hinter gläsernen Displays. Auf der Suche nach haptischer Sinneserfahrung  im digitalen Medienkonsum,
finden sich mit den richtigen Mitteln Berührungs-punkte am (Touch)Screen.
Plakate dienen als virtuelle Schnittstelle und analoges Portal, das hinter die Fassade des Hauses, in unerwartet intime Privatsphäre blicken lässt.

Benötigte App zur Ansicht der augmented
Reality Variante am Smartphone: Artivive (erhältlich im Google Play- und Apple Store)

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  The augmented Reality Video Installation „sk.in touch“ on the storefront of Sandkasten Syndikat, is centered around the topic of loneliness behind screens. Searching for haptic sensory experience within digital mediaconsumerism, points of contact are to be found on the (Touch)Screen.
Posters function as an analog portal and digital interface and enable us to take a look behind the walls into unexpected privacy with the help of a
smartphone.

To watch the videos in augmented Reality
Version on your smartphone, please  download the Artivive App on Google Play, or Apple Store

  In Reaktion auf die Prämisse, dass über weiblich gelesene Personen frei verfügt werden kann, wenn sie nicht “angemessen” gekleidet sind, hat Je. Jesch in hacktivistischer* Manier die
modulare Accessoire Serie als defensive Textilarchitektur kreiert. In einer Kombination aus minimalistischen textilen Accessoires und einem Abwehrmechanismus aus dem Bereich der DIY-Sicherheits-Architektur, entstanden Wearables, die schon visuell eine klare Grenze kommunizieren sollen und der passiven Verteidigung dienen, ohne dabei an Erotik einzubüßen.
Die dazugehörige Foto Serie ist in Zusammenarbeit mit der Fotografin Viktoriia Smetana entstanden.

* „Hacktivismus“ ist ein Kofferwort, welches aus den Worten (Life-)Hack und Aktivismus
zusammengesetzt wird. Ein „Hack“ ist in diesem Fall eine kreative Zweckentfremdung.

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  In response to the premise that female persons are responsible for being aussaulted if they are not "appropriately" or dressed “too little”, Je. Jesch created the modular accessory series in a hacktivist* manner as a defensive textile architecture. In a combination of minimalist textile accessories and a defense mechanism from the field of DIY security architecture, wearables were
created that are intended to visually communicate a clear boundary and serve passive defense without sacrificing sexyness. The accompanying photo series was created in collaboration with the photographer Viktoriia
Smetana.

* "Hacktivism" is a combination of the words (life) hack and activism. In this case, a "hack" is a creative misappropriation.

    The Installation “GATE” features an approximately 10-15 mins Video Loop of a performance that was made with the sculpture and is projected onto the triangular object “Gate”.   
    The frame is made of a wooden triangle with a side length of 2,4 meter and a height of about 1,8m. Inside of this frame there is a chaotic net of thumb-broad rubber elastics, about 300m of elastics in total, that work as a  screen for the video installation.
    In the video the artist and performer moves through the sculpture whereas limbs appear and dissapear on the surface. The performance was filmed and is projected onto the sculpture again.
    The sculpture can be screwed to the floor and is thereas able to stand in the midst of a room or can be as well hung at a wall like a picture or installed lying on the floor for the presentation.

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    The kinetic sculpture “GRIND” is driven by a stepper-motor which is audible far before the sculpture is seen. It rotates a hand-woven, black&white band which has the letters WTF written in 8-bit code on it. This band was made during the “urban MSG” Series. The band rotates with a loud and grinding noise slowly turn after turn. It is the only sculpture from the Triangle Series where the “performance” is done by a machine.

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    The Installation “GHOST” features a Video Loop of a performance that was made with the sculpture and is projected onto the triangular object “GHOST”.   
The sculpture is used as a canvas that is spanned with an elastic white fabric. In a video performers are pressing faces and limbs against the fabric from the back while the object is illuminated from the side. This transforms the performers bodies in marble statue-like surfaces that are moving.
In an installation setting the performance film is projected onto the sculpture’s screen. The object can be screwed to the floor and is thereas able to stand in the midst of a room or can be as well hung at a wall like a picture or installed lying on the floor for the presentation.







Je. Jesch, 2019
Performer: Lena Kienzer, Je. Jesch
Video made at Dockyard Studio, Vienna
premiere public presentation 2019 at Gallery Dessous, Vienna

wooden frame sidelength 2,4m | height 1,8m
fully covered in a white stretchy fabric

Technical requirements:
Projector, Computer, Sound System
Sculpture (wood, fabrik