Artist and curator Mel e Logan, a lecturer in the Department of Digital
Art, brings together collaborative works – including drawings, paintings, video projections and interactive sound sculptures
– and links them within a sphere of art and science that is closely related to the ‘Salon’ and the early 20th-century tradition
of artistic activities influenced by scientific research. Within this sphere, humans move as interacting beings, much like
their microbial components in a web of interdependencies, whilst simultaneously following their own instinct for survival.
Interactive
sound sculptures can be activated by visitors via antennas. Whilst gut bacteria transform into fantastical birds, Demodex
– the microscopic parasites – take on a human-like form and wear jewellery. And why not? After all, it is common knowledge
that bacteria are polite and social beings. A non-cooperative bacterium is given the ‘cold shoulder’, as analysis of bacterial
interactions reveals. This suggests that the sharing of resources and collaborative work predate human existence. Marchantia,
the plant regarded as the link between life in water and the colonisation of land by the first life forms, appears in the
exhibition in dense oil paintings – as a portrait of a phylogenetic history.
An exhibition by Mel e Logan featuring
artists and collaborators:
Jana Saleh, Sonja Bäumel, Julie Jebeile, Lisa Walker, Charlotte Jarvis, Monica C. LoCascio,
Barbis Ruder, Bela Borsodi, Tracy Thompson, Sei Jeung, Martina R. Fröschl, Victoria Keddie, Sofia Gutierrez Escobar, Flynn
by Malpractice (Chiara Kristler & Marcin Ratajcyk), Aeon Gawa (Hartwin Haselbauer) with Otto Rotermundt, MAX HYPER, Margherita
Pruneti, Brii Power and tin.hoc, Noor Stenfert Kroese and Amir Bastan, Tracey Emin
Inter
Acting Buggy Worlds
An exhibition by Mel e Logan
5 November 2026 – 7 January 2027
University
Gallery of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Sala Terrena
Heiligenkreuzerhof, Staircase 7
Entrance: Schönlaterngasse
5/Grashofgasse 3, 1010 Vienna
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Saturday from 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm (closed on public holidays)
Free admission
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