Grazer Kunstverein, Graz

June 25 – August 27, 2022

appendage

Iris Touliatou

Attentive to the ways object, gesture, and affect are mutually implicated, appendage quivers between the remnants of fractured existence and the unbridled desire and pleasure to hold things—together and anew. Harnessing

both situated and dislocated supplies, appendage unfolds as a series of fixtures, both material and situational, that are in turn connected or plugged into the architectural and social infra- structure of the Grazer Kunstverein.

doorways, door frames, bar handles, manual mechanisms, outdoor connectors, door eyes, cabin hooks, hinges, stoppers, 3M double- sided adhesive, self-adhesive, window tint removal kit, PVC shock absorber & screws, holes, original column, modern copy of original column, partition walls, galvanized steel, plasterboard, white paint, Olympia black corded phone, wall text, wall mount system, wall absorbers, phone memory, ring tone, handsets, large buttons, cell dead zones, audio assist feature, remote access, cable, splitter, missed calls, call history, membership

fee, membership benefits, dispatches, open letter, agreement template, computer floor, calcium sulphate, high strength polypropylene, vinyl, linoleum, laminate, rubber, panels lowered and reversed, removed carpet, base, head, pedestal assembly, stringer, previous institutional identity, stationery, bumpers, nipple shields, sugar substitute, stretch film, food processor, standard blade, drinking

water fountains, fittings, rings, stainless steel pipes, elbow, reducer, tee type, cross type, coupling, unions, adaptors, olet, fixtures, flanges, valves, drains, rub handling, outlets, distribution boards, equipment support, Humanscale NeatLink cable management, defender mini, channel rubber, defender cable

crossover defender compact, line wiring, today’s standard, wall jack, 30 meter telephone extension cable, 300 bathing suit sets, 300 shirts, motors, chilled water pump, water booster, transducer, cable, charger, network, alarm, security key box, password, extender pro, repeater pro, long range access point, Waveshare screens, black glass, cartons, organic eggs, safety lights, lights on loan, lights for an exhibition, 3 racks, 6 squares, fluorescent bulbs, electrodes, shunted
sockets, screw-type base, thermal paper, adding machines, coating, zero ink system, heat, sun, friction, arm fetish, hand fetish, transport van, CB0209PH, books on events according to your date of birth, old astrology guides, prefaces, wires, metal fences and
cages retired from circulation, brushed nickel 6-pack stainless steel, gold threads, interior doors, separators, hand rests, windbreakers, wine glasses, magnetic panties, happiness pills, unseizable property, turquoise shades, exterior emulsion, buckets, ice machine loan, oxygen concentrator, PVC belts, plastic wrap, two identical melamine boxes with locks, Christmas trees, the last 230 objects from a store (sold), various for birds, some big black leather couches, we women complete series, free admission,... aggregate and detach.

appendage emerges in the structural dissection of the institution as a public body. Currents of access, data, phone calls, water supply, tem- perature, electricity, architecture, geography, legal bond, membership, and support struc- tures are scored anew as they are redistributed, diverted, or disrupted. In such an instance of structural glitch, appendage lifts institutional functions from their normative behaviors and replenishes them with transient affiliations and elective affinities.

appendage exposes how objects and their func- tions continue drifting inseparably from person- al and collective attachments and gives body to the enmeshment between infrastructure and affective economies. It lays the transactional conditions that constitute the collective dimen- sions of intimacy bare and inflamed.

Text by grazerkunstverein

Installation view, Iris Touliatou, appendage, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2022

Installation view, Iris Touliatou, appendage, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2022

– Courtesy of the artist and Grazer Kunstverein. Photo: kunst- dokumentation.com
Installation view, Iris Touliatou, appendage, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2022

Installation view, Iris Touliatou, appendage, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2022

– Courtesy of the artist and Grazer Kunstverein. Photo: kunst- dokumentation.com
Installation view, Iris Touliatou, appendage, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2022

Installation view, Iris Touliatou, appendage, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2022

– Courtesy of the artist and Grazer Kunstverein. Photo: kunst- dokumentation.com
Installation view, Iris Touliatou, appendage, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2022

Installation view, Iris Touliatou, appendage, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2022

– Courtesy of the artist and Grazer Kunstverein. Photo: kunst- dokumentation.com
Installation view, Iris Touliatou, appendage, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2022

Installation view, Iris Touliatou, appendage, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2022

– Courtesy of the artist and Grazer Kunstverein. Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Iris Touliatou, untitled (still not over you), ceiling light fixtures, fluorescents, circuit, cable, outlets, 2022.

Iris Touliatou, untitled (still not over you), ceiling light fixtures, fluorescents, circuit, cable, outlets, 2022.

– Courtesy of the artist and Grazer Kunstverein. Photo: kunst- dokumentation.com
Installation view, Iris Touliatou, appendage, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2022

Installation view, Iris Touliatou, appendage, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2022

– Courtesy of the artist and Grazer Kunstverein. Photo: kunst- dokumentation.com
Installation view, Iris Touliatou, appendage, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2022

Installation view, Iris Touliatou, appendage, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2022

– Courtesy of the artist and Grazer Kunstverein. Photo: kunst- dokumentation.com