Hi. Happy new year. Today, year five of Minute/Year will begin, in bb15, in Linz, Austria. All details below. ☁️
Close-up view of Minute/Year, as installed at bb15, Linz.
The fifth annual iteration of Minute/Year will begin later today. As in previous years, the change of the year also brings a change in location. In 2020, Minute/Year is installed at bb15, in Linz, Austria. From January 1. until December 31., 2020, the work will record one minute of audio, at 8:20pm — or, 20:20 — each day.
bb15 is a non-commercial centre for the arts in Linz, which opened in 2009 and has held a regular program since then of exhibitions, performances, workshops, concerts, and more. Minute/Year is installed in the main 100m² exhibition and event space of bb15. Throughout the coming year, there will also be a program of events — interventions, micro-concerts, open minutes, and more — organised around Minute/Year, curated by Gabriela Gordillo. These events will experiment, reflect, hack, and play with the piece, both conceptually and practically, and more details about these will be coming soon.
Throughout 2019, of course, Minute/Year was installed in grüntaler9, in Berlin. We’re very grateful for the support and assistance that Teena Lange provided in allowing the work to spend a year at grüntaler9 — thanks Teena!
We have also recently presented some of the data archive that has been generated by the work. Back at the end of November, Minute/Year: Four Years was shown at grüntaler9 (and got a little mention in the Tagesspiegel). Before that, Minute/Year (2016–2018) was presented at the PARSE research conference in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Partial view of Minute/Year: Four Years, in grüntaler9, November 2019.
View of Minute/Year (2016–2018) at the PARSE Research Conference 2019, Valand Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, November 2019.
