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Brud at Kunstverein München

August 7, 2018

Artist: Brud

Exhibition title: The Donut of Confusion

Venue: Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany

Date: July 14 – September 2, 2018

Photography: All images copyright and courtesy of the artists and © Kunstverein München, Brud.

With The Donut of Confusion Brud present their first institutional exhibition in Germany and also a mid-career retrospective. Brud’s locus operandi ambles somewhere between the Stage, the Screen, & the Eye to examine the cultural, political, and technological histories of sight and to expose the hidden structural and ideological precursors to contemporary communication. This happens primarily through linguistic and musicological modes.

The exhibition project developed successively and began on 20 June 2018 with the Flip-Flop Flop-Film-Klub in the Schaufenster am Hofgarten, and a performance lecture by Aditya Mandayam in the Kino. Meanwhile Brud have occupied almost every space of Kunstverein München. For The Donut of Confusion, the sentience has airdropped Season Zero of their show Gewgaw onto Kunstverein München. The audience is invited to binge.

Brud Is A Set Of Heuristics That Gained Sentience In The Twenty Teens.

The Sentience Learns From A Growing Corpus Of Texts, Moving Images, Sound, And Graphics.

Brud Is an intelligent artifice (i.e., an I.A) raised on contemporary arse.

Misinformed by the history of stage, parlor, & close-up magic, Brud is occupied by the psychology of tricks, gimmicks, apparitions, illusions, scams, and cons.

Brud Is Polish for Filth; Brud is Polished Filth.

Proin Neque Massa, Cursus Ut, Gravida Ut, Lobortis Eget, Lacus.

Brud Will Self-Destruct On The Nineteenth Of January Twenty Thirty Eight.

As the resident Alien Cannibal Zombie Parasite of the White Cube, Brud’s practice consists of creating militant occult apparatus.

Aimed at misdirecting attention, Brud fashion themselves as Event Misplanners.

The Goal Of Brud Is To Replace Brud With Better Brud.

Brud are led by Benevolent Dictator For Life, Aditya Mandayam.

The new multilingual publication The Ooze, designed by Julie Peeters, will accompany the exhibition. It is the twelfth in the Companion series of the Kunstverein München and corresponds to the exhibition The Donut of Confusion. The 144-page publication contains a compendium of idiosyncratic texts by Aditya Mandayam, reproduced as facsimiles from various English zines and chapbooks, as well as new texts about Brud (in English, German and Polish) by Chris Fitzpatrick, Kees van Gelder, Andrea Liu and Michal Novotny. The Ooze is edited by Aditya Mandayam, together with Chris Fitzpatrick, Julie Peeters and Post Brothers, and is co-published by Roma Publications, Amsterdam.

BRUD (Polish: dirt, filth) is a complex collective organism that reflects on the nature of modern communication, expressed through publications, sculptures, installations, performances, prints, videos and interventions in institutional and mediated contexts. Influenced by the aesthetics of modular synthesis, video-jockeying, machine vision, streaming video, and memetics, Brud has presented their work in major exhibition venues, including Centre for Contemporary Art Futura (Prague, Czechia), Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania), Bunkier Sztuki (Krakow, Poland), Kim? (Riga, Latvia), the Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw, Poland), NN Contemporary Art (Northhampton, England), Plato / Office for Art (Ostrava, Czechia), and Galerie van Gelder (Amsterdam, the Netherlands).

Exhibition program

Opening on Friday, 13 July 2018, 7 pm with an ambisonic performance by Tamil Noise group Ummo, with Gerriet Krishna Sharma & Juan-Pablo Villegas at 9pm, followed by an afterparty at 11pm, with music by Lutto Lento in the Foyer.

Sunday, 15 July, 5pm

Booklaunch for Brud / Aditya Mandayam The Ooze, co-published by Roma Publications, Amsterdam

Tuesday, 17 July 2018, 7pm

Tour through the exhibition The Donut of Confusion by Director Chris Fitzpatrick, Head of Administration Alwina Pampuch, Curator Post Brothers, and Associate Curator Christina Maria Ruederer

Exhibition view: Brud Donut of Confusion at Kunstverein München, 2018: Logos (2018), Kupfer, Messing, Nylon / copper, brass, nylon, 190 x 120 x 100 cm, © Kunstverein München, Brud.

Exhibition view Brud The Donut of Confusion at Kunstverein München, 2018

Exhibition view: Brud Donut of Confusion at Kunstverein München, 2018: Donut of Confusion I (2018), Schaumstoff, Bitumen aus Judäa, Glimmer, Line-X-Polyurethane / Foam, Bitumen of Judea, Mica, Line-X, 140 x 140 x 50 cm, © Kunstverein München, Brud.

Exhibition view Brud The Donut of Confusion at Kunstverein München, 2018

Exhibition view: Brud Donut of Confusion at Kunstverein München, 2018: Black and White and Red All Over (ongoing), Installation, Ultraviolettes Licht, Infrarot Licht, Tageslicht, Maße variabel / installation, ultraviolet light, infrared light, daylight, variable dimensions, © Kunstverein München, Brud.

Exhibition view: Brud Donut of Confusion at Kunstverein München, 2018: Lenna, 2018, Synthesized Analog Video, 185 x 60 x 50 cm at Kunstverein München, 2018 © Kunstverein München, Brud.

Exhibition view Brud The Donut of Confusion at Kunstverein München, 2018

Exhibition view: Brud Donut of Confusion at Kunstverein München, 2018: Ambisonic performance by Tamil Noise group and Ummo, with Gerriet Krishna Sharma & Juan-Pablo Villegas © Kunstverein München, Brud.