Travel Agency, Alienator

Interactive multimedia-installation in variables shapes with tent, tables, chairs, cushions, earphones, soundinstallation, audioguide, drawings in:

“Alienator on Tour”, Centre Culturel Français, Halle de la Gombe, Kinshasa, 2010

“Alienator – le Retour”, Museum, Murten, 2010

“Alienator”, Marcs Blond, Bern, 2009

“Alienator”, Ancienne Gare, Fribourg, 2009

Fotos, Videos: Nika Spalinger

“With Travel Agency Nika Spalinger has developed a very simple but equally efficient method for exchanging and communicating experiences through the medium of image – the basis of visual art – across cultures. A journey with Travel Agency is always a joint project in which usually two, sometimes several people are involved and in which narration and visualization intersect. The artist sees her contribution to this joint project in providing a imaginary and communication space. What emerges are not mature works of art, but rather lively, direct narratives and sketches, imaginations of the unknown, suggesting what is known and holding the mirror to travelers and traveled alike.”

Text: Esther Jungo

 

“Alienator” a project of “Charlatan”, Fribourg, 2009 -10

“A series of exhibitions that discuss politics and ideology, tell stories, debate history, question power and the powerful, explore colonisation and trace independence, turn pages of the past, elevate freedom and build utopias. (…), in search of geographical or internal territories, colonial deviations, hallucinatory images, more conciliatory encounters, poetry, openness and elegant proposals…

Alienator, Charlatan Fribourg 2009/10

Bernard Müller: «Alienator on tour» Charlatan libère les talents! TogoCultures 2009

Ancienne Gare, Fribourg
Marks Blond, Bern
Museum, Murten
Centre Culturel Français, Halle de la Gombe, Kinshasa