Kerstin Putz, Patrick Weber

Sound art

STWST upstairs
Part of exhibition: open throughout

Based on a drawing by the British-Mexican artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) entitled “Fog Dogs. God Dogs and Dogesses Meet in a Fog” (1980), the audio piece develops a foggy acoustic stage for hybrids of species, mystical figures, revenants and dream figures. From the fog emerge beings between human, animal, thing and commodity, between earthly and supernatural, creaturely/created and manufactured/produced.

The radio play complements the fantastic arsenal of characters from Carrington’s surrealist world of images with intelligent machines, self-confident devices, talking light, chattering images and technical copies; with deepfakes that gain self-awareness and holograms that become autonomous. What or who is “dog” or “master,” “divine” or “earthly” in this panorama of characters becomes just as much a topic as the question of whether the entourage of canine humans, divine dogs and artificial gods will return to the nebulous world from which they came—or whether they have always been where we are.

Manuscript: Kerstin Putz
Sound: Patrick Weber
Speaker: Violetta Zupančič

Kerstin Putz is an author, cultural scientist and curator based in Vienna. Projects between literature, theory and sound art. Exhibitions, books, essays, drawings, writings for magazines and radio.

Patrick Weber is a musician and visual artist from Vienna. His multidisciplinary work includes sound, video, photography and performance.