Sound Machines Museum (KMM Cultural Center)

"As a cultural center dedicated to the historical relationship between sounds, people and machines, the KMM offers an inspiring environment for us as a contemporary sound art duo. We want to be inspired by the sounds and the precise technology of the exhibits."

Inspired by the mechanical sophistication of the music machines, the contemporary sound art duo will work with the records in the museum. The polyphonic records function as resonating bodies in which they reproduce the surrounding sound fragments from the room and form their own composition. As a formally reduced sound sculpture, this installation will provide a counterpoint to the opulent and powerful fairground and concert organs that dominate the large organ hall and stood for pleasure and wealth in their day. When is listening to music productive? Are there productive or unproductive sounds? The audience is invited to engage with the subtle nature of this experimental sound installation and to accept the offer of unproductivity.

Museum Neuthal Textile and Industrial Culture

"My work often combines traditional weaving techniques with modern materials and technologies to subvert expectations and challenge assumptions about what constitutes 'feminine' art. My main focus is on exploring the intersection of feminism and textiles. Exhibiting works that are in dialog with a history rooted in the local economy gives my work a deeper meaning." (original quote in English)

Angèle Challier Fontaine's works reflect on the economic and social conditions of traditionally read women's occupations in the textile industry and the resulting gender dynamics. In her work, she takes a more critical look at historical economic structures during industrialization and honors the unpaid and hidden value that women contributed through their work in domestic and industrial spaces. The installation is a compilation of traditional embroidery and sewing and incorporates traditional techniques as exhibited in the Textile Museum Neuthal.

Museum Wetzikon

"Museums were created with the idea of telling cultural history and providing access to the past through objects. This is not a neutral gesture, but is also linked to the construction of identity and the establishment of a hierarchical structure between the self and the other. I am particularly interested in how these narratives are created through staging and context and how they can be critically questioned. This also results in a kind of paradox between my enthusiasm for things and the need to take a critical stance towards them."

To explore the idea of (in)productivity, the artist will consider the act of labor that an object performs in its specific exhibition context. The artist will work with the curators of all partner museums to select objects from each collection and give them some 'time off', so to speak. Each object will be exhibited in a different museum to break its conventional value in that specific context.

Museum am Pfäffikersee

"A central theme of the Museum am Pfäffikersee is working from home. The precarious conditions and material hardship of historical reality are contrasted and at the same time combined with the longing of "leisure subjects" in late capitalism. The walk through the museum rooms evokes many parallels to YouTube tutorials, the topics of which are also represented in the museum's collection. I would like to explore these virtual and museum-like private spaces of working from home."

This work deals with the amateur maker at a time when DIY (do-it-yourself) culture is a growing space for creativity and accessibility. The approximately three-minute video is a montage of YouTube found-footage material. A kind of l'art-pour-l'art dream world is created through experimental alienation, duplication, exaggeration and repetition.

Knight's house Bubikon

"Site-specific works have been part of my artistic practice for years. Looking at what is there and reacting to it is what interests me. In this case, I came with an existing project idea. So there is an overlap between the museum and my world of ideas. In terms of content and form. Friction arises, at best."

"Lifestyle Bullshit" is a research project that focuses on the Western Union logo and has been running since 2015. Spieser plays with the company's brand identity and works on textiles and goods to imitate the brand colors (black and yellow). In the continuation of this project, the artist will make further connections between production flow, working hours and money in relation to the Ritterhaus in Bubikon. The work will include an installation presenting a kiosk with lifestyle bullshit products for sale to the public.