Scream by Richard Jochum
Austria
500x400 pxl, digital photograph
2003
It's been a while that it interested me to see ourselves involved in elemental expressions, screaming was one of them. So I started talking pictures of it, photographing myself while performing in front of a camera on a tripod. Up to today there is something that moves me when I see the images. They have an existential quality to them that fits to my understanding of art. Art not only has to create beautiful aesthetics, first of all it start with a quandary - a search for images that are significant for the contemporary, ever changing world we live in.
Richard Jochum is a Visiting Scholar and Artist in Residence at Columbia University. He works as a media artist since the late 1990s setting up exhibitions all over the world. Being an Austrian citizen Richard received his MA in philosophy from the University of Innsbruck, and his PhD from the University of Vienna dealing with strategies of coping with complexity in contemporary philosophy. He got his MFA in sculpture and media art from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna before he moved first to Berlin and later to New York. Richard's art practice is accompanied by lectures in the field of contemporary art practice and cultural theory. He has been awarded several grants and prizes. One of his most recent installation - an oversized prayer necklace as a communal sculpture - is exhibited on the roof top of the American University in Cairo, March - 2007.
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