Robert Jelinek

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Robert Jelinek (2010)

Robert Jelinek (* 1970 in Pilsen ) is an Austrian artist .

Career

Robert Jelinek grew up in Pilsen ( Czechoslovakia ) for the first 10 years . In 1980 the family emigrated with him to Austria. In Linz he studied in 1986 at the HTL / commercial art and from 1987 to 1989 Painting / Visual design at Wolfgang Flatz at the Art University Linz . In 1990 he began studying fine arts with Fritz Schwegler at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , which he continued from 1991 to 1995 in the graphics master class with Gunter Damisch at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna .

Robert Jelinek lives and works in Vienna.

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Robert Jelinek has been working in the fields of “time-based media”, olfactory science , electronic music and conceptual art since 1990 .

Under the name “Sabotage” he sees his artistic work as an interface between the visual arts, actionism and conceptual art , which has been realized since 1994 in the music label “Sabotage Recordings”, the organization “Sabotage Communications” and since 2003 in the art project of his “own State "( State of sabotage ) place.

In his “Company Diary” project from 1990 to 1992, he used electronic media to send private messages to friends and relatives.

Between 1992 and 1995, over 70 public actions and projects were carried out under the name “Sabotage”. "Sabotage" aimed at the impairment of defined thought schemes and action patterns. Public Places for certain functions were used privately for a short time, e.g. B. Telephone booths, toilet facilities, elevators, photocells and facilities for civil surveillance.

In addition to sculptures, installations and art in public spaces, Jelinek has increasingly been creating drawings since 2005. So in 2006 the book appeared with drawings of rupture of the aorta . In 2012 Jelinek wrote and illustrated the children's book Narthex for his daughter .

Actionism in Music Format (1994-2001)

In the early 1990s he worked with electronic music and founded the label Sabotage Communications in Vienna , which published over 60 records with musicians between 1994 and 1999 under the names Sabotage Recordings, Subetage Records and Craft Records. The music label was a platform for young bands, DJs and groups from several countries, including solo releases and contributions of Adult, Ultradyne, Le Car, Doppler effect , ectomorph, marker pen , Richard Dorfmeister , Patrick Pulsinger , Fennesz , kodwo eshun , Franz Pomassl , Ryoji Ikeda , Panacea (musician) or Alois Huber.

In 1999 Jelinek dissolved the music label "Sabotage Recordings". The remaining stock of sound carriers was asphalted by an asphalting company in the Vienna Flex (Club) on the dance floor.

The sound car "The Beast" won several prizes in international dB competitions. The Beast became the loudest car in Europe at the European "db drag racing championship" 2001 in Stuttgart.

In 2001 he created a concept for the local merging of musical processes for the Vienna Museum Quarter . Under his artistic direction, the “Spoiler” was created, a mobile place where a music archive, record shop, flyer distribution point, recording studio and discussion platform all work together. His guests included Grandmaster Flash , Coil , Bill Drummond / KLF , Jürgen Teipel , Tony Wilson (music manager) and Torch (rapper) .

Olfactory Interventions (1998-2002)

CASH 50 ml Parfum / Hall in Tirol, 2000

The first olfactory art actions and projects follow from 1998. Jelinek made himself available as a test subject to the Vienna Ludwig Boltzmann Society for olfactory experiments. In Jelinek's actions and fragrance creations, smell is used as an information carrier through various media. In the same year the Parfum Cash Parfum - The Scent of Money In 1999 he initiated the Airconditions smell festival , during which various smells acted as information carriers in the urban area of ​​Vienna for a week. Two months before the introduction of the EURO currency in 2001, Jelinek had the scent of the Austrian Schilling sprayed on fresh 10-euro banknotes with € de toilette and vacuum-packed as a scented tree. In 2002, he set off on the trail of the extinct thylacine ( Tasmanian tiger ) by Australia and Tasmania to the musk -Duftstoff generate the Thylasine synthetically and to use as an invisible fence barrier. This is followed by occupations with epidemics, especially the black plague , as well as with micronations .

Staatskunst - State of Sabotage (2003-2013)

State coat of arms: State of Sabotage (SoS) Design by Franz Graf and Robert Jelinek

In an art action on August 30, 2003 at 1:00 p.m. CET, Jelinek initiated the SoS (State of Sabotage) on the island of Harakka in front of Helsinki in front of an audience. Jelinek and HR Giger solemnly proclaimed the "state" together with the 25-member Finnish choir of screaming men Huutajat . The sculpture Sabotage by the Swiss artist and alien inventor was unveiled. The sculpture is to remain on the highest point of the island of Harakka and is open to the public. The State Declaration took place under the patronage of the following micronations : Principality of Sealand , Ladonia, NSK State, Elgaland-Vargaland and Transnational Republic. SoS declared August 30th as a national holiday in order to commemorate this historic event each year. The first SoS province “Baldrockistan” was acquired in Australia. Embassies were also opened and presentations in Amsterdam , Vienna and Nantes this year . The SoS national coat of arms was designed by Franz Graf , the SoS pass by Heimo Zobernig . A separate national currency "SoS" with the 5-SoS coin was also introduced.

In 2004, diplomatic relations with other countries began to be established, the SoS art collection began and collaborations with artists such as Roman Signer and Timm Ulrichs were carried out. Public projects, exhibitions and embassy openings followed in Hamburg / Germany, Den Helder / Holland, New York / USA, Novi Sad / Serbia, Barcelona / Spain, Nice / France, Ljubljana / Slovenia.

In 2005 Robert Jelinek brought the SoS Grail to a museum in Ushuaia / Argentina. When he entered a SoS exhibition in Ohio / USA, all SoS passports and private property were confiscated and damaged by Homeland Security . The FBI returned the confiscated items after 3 months.

Furthermore, collaborations were entered into with Jonathan Meese and Herman de Vries this year . Jelinek wrote the first version of the SoS state constitution and ratified the SoS recognition of human rights and the “Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations” for the UN .

In a period of 8 months in 2006, over 700 Africans from Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, South Africa, Benin, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Libya, Gambia, Liberia, Uganda, Senegal and Zambia with their own creative work looked for an exchange for a SoS passport on. The factual SoS recognition enabled African migrants to actually travel to countries they had been forced to leave. In August 2006, Austrian customs became aware of some parcels and called in the criminal police. After a subpoena by Robert Jelinek, the prosecution filed the complaint and closed the proceedings.

Jelinek brought the second grail to the world's northernmost museum in Longyearbyen , Spitsbergen . The SoS territory was expanded through the acquisition of a meadow in South Bohemia / Czech Republic. Following the principle of the Foucault pendulum , he had a 20 meter high steel structure built in the Waldviertel landscape near Schiltern / Lower Austria, on which a walk-in house (pendulum house) floated 30 cm above the ground. Embassies were also opened this year and exhibitions in Berlin and Hanover / Germany, Istanbul / Turkey, Krems / Austria and Prague / Czech Republic.

The introduced “SoS” currency was filed with the World Bank / IMF in 2007 . The US government held the domain "stateofsabotage.com" and had it blocked by its related group DomainsbyProxy. More SoS passport applications from all over the world were received in Africa. The SoS pass was mainly used as a form of ID that gave migrants access to medical care, work permits and money transfers to relatives in their country of origin. In this year the SoS art collection was also expanded. In addition, SoS was de facto recognized by Slovenia , Switzerland , Monaco and Andorra . In addition to participating in the AER (Assembly of European Regions) conference in Udine, chaired by EU President José Manuel Barroso , presentations and exhibitions took place in Toronto and Kingston / Canada, Žilina / Slovakia, Linz, Vienna and Graz / Austria.

In 2008 Jelinek acquired a plot of land in Mauerbach / Austria and made it a SoS residence and state territory. The SoS province of Trojice near Trhové Sviny (Czech Republic) was expanded by a further 3,500 m². The blocked domain "stateofsabotage.com" was bought back at a web auction. Travels and exhibitions in Austria, Germany, Holland and Australia. At the beginning of 2009, Jelinek was informed in writing by the Austrian public prosecutor that an ongoing investigation against him - the allegation of forging passports - had been closed. Construction of a studio pavilion on the SoS residence in Mauerbach. Travels and exhibitions in Austria, Egypt, Greece, Switzerland, France and Italy. Jelinek brings the third SoS Grail to the south-easternmost museum in the world on Stewart Island / New Zealand, so by the end of 2010 all three SoS state guardians will be complete. In 2011 the book Offshore Census will be published , which includes almost 14,000 SoS citizens. Travels and exhibitions in Egypt, Norway, Greece and Austria.

With the tenth anniversary, on August 10, 2013, the action was declared over ( Mission Completed ).

Basic intellectual income - the portrait (since 2014)

With the essay “Creating Culture” (Der Konterfei 001) Jelinek closes the art business and in February 2014 founded the journal “Der Konterfei” as an expanded art production. He reduces his artistic production to the interest in knowledge which appears as text in book form. The portrait also serves as preparation for an upcoming summer semester academy. Jelinek is already providing these “study books” for this purpose. In the form of conversations, essays and manifestos, the likeness portrays selected topics and personalities that reflect contemporary social tendencies, “buried” knowledge and interdisciplinary strategies that are relevant to scientific, cultural and humanistic cultural traditions. “What interests me for this academy is the knowledge that lies behind Google, so to speak. This background knowledge has to be drawn from those personalities who, as part of established systems, are ready to share this knowledge. By that I mean a contribution to our basic intellectual income ”. The first publications include conversations with and about Timm Ulrichs, Oswald Oberhuber , Peter Weibel , Bill Drummond , Klaus Ferentschik , Coil , Paul Watzlawick , Olena Chekan, Václav Havel , Achmed Sakajew , André Glucksmann , Boris Nemzow and Genesis P-Orridge . With a bundle of 50 publications, the self-publishing in its previous form was dissolved after five years. Jelinek brought all the books signed by the authors in a slipcase to the library of the Capanna Regina Margerita refuge . The follow-up project was “One”, a series of playable audio postcards with students from several universities and the vinylograph, where a question is directed to a person and the answer is audible with contributions from Bèla Tarr , Christian Fennesz , Sibylle Berg , René Pollesch , Romeo Castellucci .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ † Sabotage Recordings (Record Label) 1995–1999. In: sabotage.at. 1999, accessed March 18, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Der Standard , August 13, 2001.
  3. ↑ EU de Toilette: The D-Mark remains - as a fragrance Spiegel-Online, September 22, 1999.
  4. ^ Airconditions Festival program , September 11, 2000.
  5. ↑ Old spice on new banknotes , BBC News, Aug. 8, 2001.
  6. ↑ SoS Coin : Taedivm Homepage
  7. ^ Sara Pearce: Homeland Security seizes art 'passports' - There's no leaving the state of 'Sabotage' now. In: news.cincinnati.com. February 16, 2005, archived from the original on July 28, 2013 ; accessed on April 28, 2019 (English).
  8. ^ Secrets of Sabotage , Public 37, Canada 2008.
  9. ↑ Thomas Wyss: Swiss, welcomes the "Non-President". In: zueritipp.com. March 23, 2012, archived from the original on June 28, 2013 ; accessed on March 26, 2020 .
  10. ↑ The Pendelhaus  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Salzburger Nachrichten, July 7, 2008.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / blogs.salzburg.com  
  11. ↑ SoS OPENINGS 2003-06 on YouTube
  12. ↑ Countdown to dissolution. In: Homepage of the State of Sabotage. Retrieved May 25, 2013 .
  13. ↑ Food for thought for the curious: The portrait, publisher portrait of Skug Magazin No. 103, July 2015.
  14. ↑ Uwe Schütte: A work of art to the extreme. In: wienerzeitung.at . December 11, 2015, accessed April 20, 2018 .
  15. ↑ oe1.orf.at: Just one question! | SO | 20 10 2019 | 7:30 p.m. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Jelinek, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Pilsen