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3 August 2021

Premiere of the vinyl record postcard by artist Marko Zink X author Elfriede Jelinek references the upcoming new stage production of the Literature Nobel Prize winner's play about society and fashion

The photographic art series by Marko Zink 'In der Maschine' (In the Machine, from 2002-2006) and Elfriede Jelinek's audio (2017) and theatre play 'Das Licht im Kasten' have one in common: They make the constraints of consumption and norms visible. From 3 September until 29 October, Marko Zink's 'In der Maschine' photo series, which questions people's desire to fit into predefined social spaces, will be exhibited at Galerie Michaela Stock in Vienna in a semi-theatrical setting with spoken words by Elfriede Jelinek who delivered the text for the 'In the Machine' series.

On occasion of the exhibition of Marko Zink's photographic work, the artist's audio-picture-postcard 'Talking Postcard' (in German 'Vinyltonbildpostkarte'), produced by Vinylograph in Vienna, will premiere at the exhibition at Galerie Michaela Stock. The artwork with the depiction of one of the photographs from the series 'In the Machine' is even when the rectangular shape is extraordinary and seems to be a call for more diversity in everyday predefined norms, a functionable medium with the recorded words of the artwork's text written and spoken by Elfriede Jelinek. The author was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2004 "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power" (cited from www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2004/jelinek/facts/).

For the presentation of the strictly limited edition of the art record with signed photograph at the gallery in Vienna, Marko Zink directed a video at the Schauspielhaus Graz showing a record player on stage - a machine instead of actors. In October, the video will be also on view at the Schauspielhaus Graz in time with the new production of Elfriede Jelinek's fashion- and consumption-critical (beauty norms, fast fashion, exploitation, environment,...) audio/theatre play 'Das Licht im Kasten' (dates and trailer at schauspielhaus-graz.buehnen-graz.com).

Images, from left: Marko Zink, In the Machine, 2021, Special Edition TALKING POSTCARD: vinyl sound postcard (14.8 x 21 cm) plus framed photography In the machine_3314_10A (25 x 30 cm), edition: 50 Right: Marko Zink, In the Machine, video, 2021, 6:15 min., video still, Schauspielhaus Graz, 2021



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