Will analogization follow digitalization? They have been dealing with this question for 18 months. According to futurologists, humanity must revolutionize itself if it does not want to abolish itself through the inexorable digitization excess. The more digital the world becomes, the greater the risk of zombization. With their new artwork “Enthreading”, the Riklin brothers want to connect all households through a textile thread as a way of both supplementing and answering the digital networking mania. The aim is to create an unusual analog thread network. In 1999 the twin brothers Frank & Patrik Riklin founded the artistic enterprise ATELIER FÜR SONDERAUFGABEN (Atelier For Special Tasks) in St. Gallen, Switzerland, with the goal of producing independent and uncompromising art and identifying special tasks for which no one really feels responsible. In their work they are looking for ways to break free of the white cube and rely on social participation. Their art always has a relationship with other subsystems and therefore moves in a gray zone with lots of creative potential.

Frank & Patrik say that art must have a function, and they invented the profession “artonomist”. They work with public institutions as well as businesses, and develop ideas that create new realities. This way, they not only enjoy independence from the classical art funding, but they are also free to provoke uncertainty about the characteristics of their profession. This allows them to open up new fields of interest.

Both of the Riklin brothers completed an apprenticeship in architecture and afterwards studied art at various art universities. With projects like NULL STERN HOTEL (Zero Star Hotel), BIGNIK and FLIEGEN RETTEN IN DEPPENDORF (Saving Flies in Deppendorf) they have achieved international recognition as conceptual artists. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]

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