Intro

In the course of his projects Gerald Nestler has been moving within the amorphous, constantly altering, overlapping space of economy, life and art. For many years Gerald Nestler has been exploring to analyse economy as the guiding paradigm of our time by inserting himself temporarily into the system as futures broker and trader or by co-founding a company in order to investigate the structures of power and the abstract handling of the human and the world as such from within. He creates frames in which he operates in collaboration with artists, economists, scientists or others who are interested.

In resource.future, a comprehensive complex of projects, Toni Kleinlercher and Nestler question the disintegration of the individual in vast economic systems, the virtuality of money in the course of stock exchange dealing and the term 'market economy' that has meanwhile become the global system of rule.

In their audio-visual installation sexy curves the artists combine futures market prices and sounds from trading floors with heart frequency diagrams and ultrasound heart rhythms. Furthermore, they place leading representatives of the economy in the focus of their series of video-portraits, called CEOs, in a performative way. In the process of this portrait, the CEOs have to adjust to the unfamiliar artistic setting, thus allowing their professional self-presentation to be exposed as such. By representing the mighty in such a way the artists make sure that the obvious danger of being instrumentalised is fought.

Similar to a virus, Nestler additionally infiltrates systems, no matter if it is the CeBIT or stock and futures exchanges by smuggling unfamiliar dissonant information in and out again thus opposing the directed information flow.