J.G. Biberkopf

J. G. Biberkopf / Gediminas Žygus is an artist from Lithuania, based in-between Amsterdam and Vilnius. He works within the fields of sound, documentary, conceptual art and performance. Biberkopf's practice assembles a collage stemming from sound studies and ecosophy; post-colonial, architectural and media theories. Anti-architectural, with the interplay of design and power as works central concerns, his work encourages to unthink, and devise alternative genealogies of significant metaphysical and physical architectures; to reflect their interaction, narrativization, and influence on and within sociality.

J. G. Biberkopf is interested in creating autonomous ecologies that become independent of himself. In the previous work, he worked intensively with aural memes, exploring the semiotics of sound. Biberkopf has developed a sound practice, which at times has been called sculptural, theatrical and cinematic.

Biberkopf has presented works and collaborations at Barbican Centre (UK), Berghain (DE), Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius (LT), Haus Der Kunst (DE), Head (CH), Mutek Montreal (CA), Pompidou (FR), Rupert (LT), Sonic Acts (NL), Studium Generale Rietveld (NL), The Kitchen (US), Unsound (PL), Venice Biennale (IT). He was also a member of the curatorial teams of the Newman Festival (2015), and of the Unthinkable Nomos research project and events series (2016), and is currently in the process of finishing a Masters degree in Fine and Arts and Design at Sandberg Institute.

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