25.11.2022 - 31.12.2022
Ultrasocial Pop
Filip Markiewicz
25.11.2022 - 31.12.2022
Disciplines
Arts visuels, Design, Film
Project Partner
Meno Parkas GalleryDescription
The idea behind the installation project is an analysis of the history and current development of society through the composition and deconstruction of the words “Ultra”, “Social” and “Pop”. The word “social” has a special meaning in art history, it is a direct reference to the concept of social sculpture by Joseph Beuys and thus a questioning of the place of politics in art. The word “pop” is a direct reference to pop culture and the flare-up of consumer society (Jean Baudrillard) since the 1950s. However, the contraction of these words also leads to a new definition of the word “pop” (people), the idea of ultra-social pop culture is also reflecting the word “populism” which is prevalent in our society today. The prefix “ultra” is mostly used these days to denote extreme political movements (ultra-left, ultra-right), but it also refers directly to the word “ultraviolence”, which is a kind of repetitive gimmick in Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess) is used. Ultrasocial Pop is a type of bogus political campaign strategy that uses slogans, logos, and images. The main aim, however, is to shed light on how these contemporary propaganda systems work.
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25.11.2022 - 31.12.2022
Ultrasocial Pop
The idea behind the installation project is an analysis of the history and current development of society through the composition and deconstruction of the words “Ultra”, “Social” and “Pop”. The word “social” has a special meaning in art history, it is a direct reference to the concept of social sculpture by Joseph Beuys and thus a questioning of the place of politics in art. The word “pop” is a direct reference to pop culture and the flare-up of consumer society (Jean Baudrillard) since the 1950s. However, the contraction of these words also leads to a new definition of the word “pop” (people), the idea of ultra-social pop culture is also reflecting the word “populism” which is prevalent in our society today.
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FILIP MARKIEWICZ (* 1980, Esch an der Alzette, Luxembourg) is a Polish-Luxembourg visual artist who expresses himself through various media such as drawing, painting, music, video and installation. Filip Markiewicz represented Luxembourg at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015 with the Paradiso Lussemburgo project (Sternberg Press Verlag catalog). His long-term project Celebration Factory on contemporary Europe began in 2016 at the NN Contemporary Art Northampton and at the Theater Basel before it was continued in 2018 at the Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain and in 2019 at the Center for Contemporary Art Derry-Londonderry and the Kunsthalle Osnabrück (catalog Hatje Cantz Verlag). In 2017 Markiewicz staged his performance Fake Fiction with diary texts by Oskar Schlemmer (publication Hyde Éditions) at Theater Basel for the official Art Basel program. Markiewicz received the Art Prize Bourse Bert-Theis in 2019 for his art music project Ultrasocial Pop. In 2020 his theater film project Fake Fiction was presented for the Rencontres Internationales festival at the Musée du Louvre in Paris and at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. In the same year Markiewicz shows his monographic exhibition Ultraplastik Rhapsody at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest. In february 2021 Filip Markiewicz presented the performance « Ultrasocial Pop » in the frame of the Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin at the Audiorium du Louvre (F). Filip Markiewicz has been composing music for film, theater and installation under the name RAFTSIDE since 1999, with which he has also appeared in several international festivals.