Methods of Art – Archive of Artists Interviews

I think that some of the more – I mean, what’s interesting to me kind of about that is questions of like „Who exactly is the author of the work? “Is obviously that becomes so entangled with, with the very way that we produce anything, produce content. Of course you can – I can say that I’m the author of the work but in – so much of it rests on, for example, the programmers who created Photoshop, the programmers who created Rhino Modelling Software, collaborations that I have with industrial fabricators because in a very kind of almost like traditional, conceptional art tradition, I physically produce almost nothing that I make. The work is very much industrially fabricated and often with machines that, no matter what degree of like, again, traditional success, I suppose that I could possibly have, would make any sense for me to ever have. I think in some ways the most interesting things that artists can do and sort of bring to society is to, like basically provide or like act out a kind of like workshop of like possible futures, I suppose, or ideas or just to kind of introduce methods of doing things that are – how do I put it – that deviate in some way from, like the established status quo of how we – whether that’s how we deal with, you know, images and objects and content in, maybe in the case of someone like myself or whether that’s, you know, how we deal with political or social organization, for example.

Artie Vierkant / Artist

Bio

Artie Vierkant, born 1986, is an American artist based in New York. He holds an MFA from University of California, San Diego and a BA degree from University of Pennsylvania, and is represented by New Galerie, Paris. Vierkant is best known for his „Image Objects“ series, an ongoing series that is based on his 2010 essay „The Image Object Post-Internet“. Each work in the series is first created by Vierkant as a digital file on a computer, which he then UV prints out and fits onto a three-dimensional sculpture. Among others, Vierkant had exhibitions at Perrotin, New York, New Galerie, Paris, Westfalischer Kunstverein, Münster/Germany, Untitled, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and Kunsthalle Wien. In 2022 he published the book Health Communism (together with Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Verso Books). http://artievierkant.com

Credits

The interview was conducted on 4 June 2018 at Institut für Kunst und Kunsttheorie in Cologne
Interviewed by: Kristin Klein, Lea Herlitz
Filmed and recorded by: Merle Ballermann, Anne Stockhausen
Edited by: Marlène Tencha
Transcripted by: Eva Klein
Produced by: Universität zu Köln, Department für Kunst und Musik / Institut für Kunst und Kunsttheorie