Mario De Vega
Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Smells Like Teen Spirit is premised in a haptic interrogation of each of the label's previous editions. Berlin-based and Mexico City-born multi-disciplinary artist Mario de Vega occupied the gallery space of Rumpsti Pumsti (Musik) for three consecutive days in October 2016 with a hitherto complete Tochnit Aleph catalog, sanding machine, hammer, and recording equipment. Conflating acts of "playing" with destruction, de Vega took to the recorded works and assorted media with his Spartan toolset, and produced a discordant document of him repurposing the complete archive. Reducing the material to a collection of detritus for exhibition, the sound object is presented as both a conceptual remainder of the site-specific process, and an agitated extension to the label. Six-panel digipak; Edition of 300.
Release notes
Audio edit of a site-specific intervention at Rumpsti Pumsti (Musik). In October 2016, Daniel Löwenbrück deactivated an exemplar of each publication of the Tochnit Aleph catalog. Each object was altered using sanding machines and a hammer. Without an audience present, the action was documented with two dynamic microphones. The remains of the archive, consisting of dust, pieces of plastic, paper, and fragments of magnetic tape, were exhibited, while the recordings of the action now form a sound…
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- Mario De Vega
- Performer [Sanding Machines, Hammer and Tochnit Aleph catalog (Number 001-147)]
