Apparatus 22
Apparatus 22 (RO/BE/Suprainfinit utopian realm) is a collective of daydreamers, citizens of many realms, researchers, poetic activists and (failed) futurologists founded in January 2011 by current members Erika Olea, Maria Farcas, Dragos Olea together with Ioana Nemes (1979 – 2011) in Bucharest, Romania. Since early 2015 they have been working between Bucharest, Brussels and SUPRAINFINIT utopian universe.
Artistic Method
In their very diverse works – installations, performances, text based-shapes –, reality is mixed with fiction and storytelling and all merge with a critical approach drawing knowledge & experience from design, sociology, literature and economics.
The work of Apparatus 22 was recently presented in SMAK Gent (BE), Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (DE) Contemporary Art Museum (MNAC), Bucharest (RO), Kunsthalle Mannheim (DE), Contemporary Art Museum Roskilde (DK), West, Den Hague (NL), Kunsthal Gent (BE), etc.
Project during Borderland Residence
Fueled by the very specific context of Ludwig Forum Aachen, during the residency Apparatus 22 collective will work on a set of major questions in their long term “Positive Tension (in the air)” series aiming to open critical conversations and peculiar thinking, daydreaming and changing processes about art institutions.