EXTENSION TURN

Extension turn provides a number of snapshots of a range of expansive situations ? from artist´s and scientiest´s point of view. What these perspectives share is a strictly structural perspective. Proliferation is a mode of expansion that is visible in the coincidental and unruly growth of minute organisms/cells. Expansion functions through the creation of modular elements that are stringed together, piled up and heaped up to a neuralgic point of exhaustion. Different material qualities provide the phenomenon of expansion with different appearances: Stretchings, distensions, swellings are possible, but also fissures, cracks and implosions. The structural principles of expansion are rendered legible through the different forms of resistance geared towards countering expansive tendencies. (Tomas Eller, Wolfgang Popp)

Australian Culture Forum Tokyo (September 2005), Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai (September 2006): Björn Dahlem, Aiguo Deng , Tomas Eller, Thomas Feuerstein, Udo Fon, Manuel Gorkiewicz, Lone Haugaard Madsen, Yunchang He, Florian Hecker, Peter Höll, Sigi Hofer, Luisa Kasalicky, Peter Kogler, Dorit Margreiter, Klaus Mettig, Josh Müller, Olaf Nicolai, Florian Pumhösl, Jonathan Quinn, Christian Ruschitzka, Hans Schabus, Johannes Speder, Rudolf Steckholzer, Karl-Heinz Steiner, Esther Stocker und Yishen Wu; mit Texten von F.G. Barth, Sigrid Elshuber, Bernhard Grasemann, Linnea Hjalmarsdotter, Regina M. Kofler, Christina W. Mandl, D.W. Pohl, Thomas Seppi, Reinhold Steinacker, Nicolaus Steinhoff, Martin Thöni, Wolfgang Wagner und Anton Zeiliger.