Fine Art

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Multimedia installation
Goethe Institute MI 2040 Exhibition
Researcher’s Night, 2021


„The Smart altar aims to provide a transcendental experience: its recipient can go beyond the usual sense of space, time and ego. With the browseable Soul Cloud application, the user can face the size and transience of the human population – which was generated by Artificial Intelligence this time. The installation therefore, frees Artificial Intelligence from its previous, scientific function and aims a new, spiritual motivation: to connect humanity spiritually. The long-term hope of the art project is that the generated Soul Cloud can be replaced by real people one day – so that we can create a spiritual community beyond borders.”

Concept, Video, Projection: Annabella Schnabel
Grafikus: Enyedi Zsolt
Programmer: Szilárd Csörge


The Goethe Institute’s Jövő Idők – Futur III event series presents projects researching modern technologies and their social effects, which will shape the everyday life of our (near) future. MI2040, which debuted at the Researchers’ Night, can be seen as part of the program – MI2040:is it our decision? interactive exhibition about Artificial Intelligence, where the institute welcomed interested artists with a thematic presentation, a robot-making workshop, panel talks and a sci-fi movie screening.

Art object, 2021

“YOUR UNIQUENESS IS IN YOU: PROTECT OTHERS WITH IT!”

Annabella Schnabel’s ‘DNA mask’ could even be placed in a time capsule as a reminder of the pandemic. The artist manifests the tiniest biological code in a mask: the DNA, which affects our social responsibility for the pandemic. The tiniest code, what makes us unique and collective at the same time. The “Divine Particle”, which affects behavioral patterns, national or even cultural codes through Mankind’s history. People have been making masks for centuries during epidemics, but the question arises, what happens if you make it from your own DNA?

Linocut animation, short

This in-progress animation short is a non-linear storytelling memoir about grief.

The film focuses on the personal memories of the director about loss in a colorful way: sometimes in a contemplative, philosophical tone, sometimes with dark humor. However, the director’s personal loss and fear expands into a collective space, where death is a universal experience with its spiritual interpretations – in contrast to the everyday’s banality.

The short film is made by a traditional analogue graphic technique, linocutting, which has stations that are parallel with the long, painful and repetitive work of grieving.

The project is in fundraising and pre-production status, looking for future funding and partners. The Director is Annabella Schnabel, the Creative Producer is Fanni Gór, who are both internationally recognized, award-winning filmmakers. The production is based on a 10 pages long script, and Annabella continuously expands the previsual -animatic- plan of the animation:

The idea comes from a linocut poster, Every morning.. which was Annabella’s winner billboard at the Ferencvárosi Billboard Competition in Budapest, 2021:

Multimedia installation
2021


Elysian Enyedi a.k.a. Zsolt Enyedi created a lifestyle brand for stay home- frustrations. Elysian Enyedi’s franchise aims to replace the studio-experience. Zsolt Enyedi’s artworks contain the edges and the scents of tools used in artistic work.

The recesses provide a tactile experience while performing a self-massage. By the help of Enyedi we can simulate artitic work. The contact is made even more enjoyable by studio-scented massage and essential oils, wich contain linseed, gum arabic, or flax, which serve as the raw material for our graphic work. With the help of familiar scents and touches, Elysian Enyedi can be a solution to this kind of homesickness. Enyedi’s product can always be with us, we can create studio atmosphere.

Elysian refers to Elion (Elysium), known in Greek mythology, where happy life has been identified as the abode of heroes. The concept is helped by an advertising video, what was directed and etited by Annabella Schnabel. The advertising video takes inspiration from the Teleshop videos, and tells the tale of Elysian Enyedi: the individual’s journey from the frustrations of the quarantine to the dreamworld of the consumer society.

The installation video was made by Annabella Schnabel.

Artwork by Zsolt Enyedi, 2020

The artwork was exhibited at the PINCE PROJECT, Budapest, in 2020

As an artistic movement can illustrate its period in time, Zsolt Enyedi use tools and techniques to represent eras. Using tools is a big part of a larger techno archeological assemblage, where various time planes exist together in one compressed form. In Enyedi’s artwork survival card and swiss-army knife can represent the buschcraft of contemporary people. These tools are also embodied as the ideal images of certain utopist optimism. Multifunction and utility are also in the focus of Zsolt Enyedi’s artwork. A Sublime card has a lot of classical function of survival cards. Zsolt Enyedi also created new functions: the Sublime card is good for massage, it brings pleasure, some edges represent Hogarth’s beauty line. Zsolt Enyedi attempted to connect the utility of tools to the purpose of sublime in Fine art. The artwok is supported by a presentation video.”

Presentation video related to artwork was Edited by Annabella Schnabel: