Oliver Laric's pratice is characterised by the manipulation and restructuring of existing broadcast media, using YouTube, webchat programs and graphics programs as both the raw material and also method of display for his work. In works such as 50 50 2008 (2008) Laric harvest and re-edits YouTube posted footage of multiple fan's Karaoke reinterpretations of 50 Cent's rapping, to form one continuous version of the song that cuts from stranger to stranger every few seconds, while their renditions join to create a continuous musical rendition. Similar strategies include a series called Stevie Wonder Duets, in which Laric combines two separately recorded YouTube videos of two users playing the same song. One sings 'Isn't she lovely' whilst the other accompanies on piano. These works are then joined and released into YouTube by Laric.
Laric's curatorial project, in collaboration with Aleksandra Domanovic, Christoph Priglinger, Georg Schnitzer can be found at www.vvork.com.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Versions, Seventeen, London
2009
Combination of works, Pavillion 2009, Oslo
2008
＼| ￣ヘ￣|／＿＿＿＿θ☆( *o*)/, Espace Doll, Lausanne
2008
50 50 2008↓↑ Touch My Body, Seventeen, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
CUE: Artists’ Video, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
2010
My War, Edith-Ruß-Haus, Oldenburg
2010
My War, FACT Liverpool, Liverpool
2010
CODE Live 1, Great Northern Way Campus, Vancouver
2009
Bad Day, Emporium Gallery, Montreal
2009
Readymade or Not, Video Gallery, New York
2009
In Real Life, Capricious Space, New York
2009
Doing Boundless, Platform 3, Munich
2009
Earth Not a Globe, Rokeby Gallery, London
2009
Image Search, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York
2009
The New Easy, Art News Projects, Berlin
2009
AFK Sculpture Park, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin
2009
Back to the Future, COMA Centre for Opinions in Music and Art, Berlin
2009
The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths, Liberty Corner, Dublin
2009
Versions, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Montevideo/Time Based Arts, Amsterdam
2009
Session_7_Words, Am Nuden Da, London
2009
A combination of Works by Oliver Laric and Wojciech Kosma, Pavillion 2009, Oslo
2009
Once Upon a Time in the West, Pixxelpoint, Nova Gorcia
2009
A Secret Understanding, Kunsthaus Graz
2009
New Wave – Padiglione Internet – 53rd Biennale di Venezia,S.A.L.E Docks, Venice
2009
The World is Flat, X-Initiative, New York
2008
Love Design Delirium, Kunstraum NOE, Vienna
2008
Monologs, Galeria Animal, Santiago de Chile
2008
Second Thoughts, Hessel Museum, New York
2008
Episode 25: Activities in time and space, Careof – Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano
2008
I Love the Horizon, Le Magasin/Centre National d’Art Contemporain Grenoble
2008
The Steve Guttenberg Galaxy, Seventeen, Wharf Road Project, London
2008
Shift Festival, Dreispitzareal, Basel
2008
The New Easy, Agentur, Amsterdam
2008
Last Chance to see the Show, Manifesta 7
2008
Montage: Unmonumental Online, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
2007
Becks Fusions, Institute of Contemporary Art
2007
Ursula Blickle Video Prize, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2006
Character Reference, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York
