Form Template and Inter-Contextual Consciousness 2 at gottrecorder, Graz AT 2017

Referencing the animal kingdom, Thomas Ballhausen’s twelve literary texts create an imaginary zoological scenario. Elena Peytchinska’s digital drawings, based on Stomachion, the 14-part mathematical mind game, develop a network—a theoretical animal (Origamion) that navigates the book space through acts of folding. Its lines, understood both as boundaries and extensions of language, interweave with the text as they traverse the book. Literature and drawing enter into a dynamic dialogue—an atlas of language art emerges in a new order. In this way, FAUNA becomes a thinking space to be opened—without compromising the readability of this artistic enterprise. Drawings and text meet as actors on the stage of the book-space.



With contributions by Ferdinand Schmatz, Marcus Steinweg, Alexander Damianisch

photo: Manfred Stocker

Among Animals at Extra Raum Vienna 2016. Performance: Sabina Holzer, Thomas Ballhausen 

Book launch at University of Applied Arts Vienna 2018. Performance: Sabina Holzer, Jack Hauser, Thomas Ballhausen 

Among Animals at Extra Raum Vienna 2016

photo: Chris Saupper

photo: Chris Saupper