Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 29, 4th Floor, 10178 Berlin

  •  Kai ❤ D̶a̶l̶s̶t̶o̶n̶  Bushwick, Installation View
    Artist : Daniel Keller
    Title : Kai ❤ D̶a̶l̶s̶t̶o̶n̶ Bushwick, Installation View
    Website : http://aktnz.com/
    Credit : Courtesy Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
  •  Kai ❤ D̶a̶l̶s̶t̶o̶n̶  Bushwick Banner
    Artist : Daniel Keller
    Title : Kai ❤ D̶a̶l̶s̶t̶o̶n̶ Bushwick Banner
    Date(s) : 2015
    Material : Rendering by Britta Jacobs printed on fabric, chains, carabiners
    Website : http://aktnz.com/
    Credit : Courtesy Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
  • Stack Relief (Dalston Kutcher)
    Artist : Daniel Keller
    Title : Stack Relief (Dalston Kutcher)
    Date(s) : 2015
    Material : Milled multiplex plywood, MDF, acrylic, HWS-block material, patinated brass
    Website : http://aktnz.com/
    Credit : Courtesy Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
  • LLCMarriage Counseling: You Can Be Right Or You Can Be Married
    Artist : Daniel Keller
    Title : LLCMarriage Counseling: You Can Be Right Or You Can Be Married
    Date(s) : 2015
    Material : Glass doors acquired from sofa shop in Kreuzberg vandalized by anti-gentrification protesters and repaired by local glass company, steel
    Website : http://aktnz.com/
    Credit : Courtesy Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
  • Onanet Spiruline 1
    Artist : Daniel Keller
    Title : Onanet Spiruline 1
    Date(s) : 2015
    Material : Living Spirulina algae, aqueous nutrient solution, ‘nanocube’ glass aquariums, power plugs, heaters, airstones, air compressors, LEDs, pumps, tubing, steel, silver, cubic zirconia
    Website : http://aktnz.com/
    Credit : Courtesy Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
  • Onanet Spiruline 1 (detail)
    Artist : Daniel Keller
    Title : Onanet Spiruline 1 (detail)
    Date(s) : 2015
    Material : Living Spirulina algae, aqueous nutrient solution, ‘nanocube’ glass aquariums, power plugs, heaters, airstones, air compressors, LEDs, pumps, tubing, steel, silver, cubic zirconia
    Website : http://aktnz.com/
    Credit : Courtesy Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
  • Composite Career Captcha (Betterneties)
    Artist : Daniel Keller
    Title : Composite Career Captcha (Betterneties)
    Date(s) : 2015
    Material : CNC milled maplewood, aluminum, hi-macs acrylic, translucent acrylic, multicolor 3d printed sandstone, steel
    Website : http://aktnz.com/
    Credit : Courtesy Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
  • Stack Relief (Kai Zuckerberg + Bushwick Kutcher)
    Artist : Daniel Keller
    Title : Stack Relief (Kai Zuckerberg + Bushwick Kutcher)
    Date(s) : 2015
    Material : Milled multiplex plywood, black anodized aluminum, translucent acrylic, Hi-Macs acrylic, HWS-block material
    Website : http://aktnz.com/
    Credit : Courtesy Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
  •  Kai ❤ D̶a̶l̶s̶t̶o̶n̶  Bushwick, Installation View
    Artist : Daniel Keller
    Title : Kai ❤ D̶a̶l̶s̶t̶o̶n̶ Bushwick, Installation View
    Website : http://aktnz.com/
    Credit : Courtesy Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, photo: Hans-Georg Gaul


Daniel Keller: Kai ❤ D̶a̶l̶s̶t̶o̶n̶ Bushwick

Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin

‘From the Press Release’

Dear Dalston:

I’m sorry I misled you. When we left Cali I let you believe I wanted true Exit – from the Cali cults, from window-smashing devolutionary morons and political hysteria, from Silicon wild-eologies, from my daddy complex, from whatever. But you shouldn’t have believed anything I said.

It was a sovrin pipe dream, it was a huge success, it wasn’t what I wanted.

Wherever you go, there we are we said. Wherever I go, there she is. I meant. That’s the truth D. I wasn’t running away from Cali I was running away from Bushwick and it got too late before I realized I can’t because I love her.

I always did I always will. I wish I could have told you. You don’t have to be a self-sovrin to be bodily

invaded by another.

Being with B is different… We’d do rock balancing together in the hills outside of Freistadt Cupertino. Out by the biofuel pipeline and over the hills. Sentiment drones speeding past on a dopamine breeze. I felt part of something great and zen and vast. Socially substantial. One thing on top of another, one thing led to another. Being safe: the ultimate prize and the ultimate refuge.

KZ

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Dear Dalston: I understand why you don’t respond. Maybe I wasn’t transparent: I’m sorry I made you part of my hostile emotional stack. I just always thought of you as part of this insatiable insecurity engine of narcissistic ego commodifcation and onanistic production. And I know I could have been more patient with your obnoxious ideas and incessant whining.

Our AKoN Sovrinty Marriage was such an obvi scam I don’t know how it lasted 5 days. But you’re more than an LLC to me, promise.

And I’m sorry about that joke about the hummingbirds. Only a few minor patches noticed.

Your feeds look good, I’ve been watching. KZ

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Dear Dalston please check your holo

Kai

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Dear Dalston Perhaps freedom isn’t all Exit and no Voice, perhaps freedom is provision of loyalty. I miss you

Dear Dalston –

I’m considering a return to AKoN to generate a two-year Sologamy binder contingent on my residence on SeaBoh33. I know crust punks are crustier and water people are wet but I have to come to terms with what I am too. Perseverance is a virtue but I’m not the type of person to inspire admiration in others. KZ

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Dear Dalston:

The desert canvas works look viable. Very bitbank. I saw it on the holo here. Please check yours. K

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Dear Dalston Have you heard from Bushwick? :( :( :( KZ

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Dear Dalston:

So I’m almost used to the spirulina smoothies but I miss Hand of Providence. You’d hate it here but I’m beginning to feel repeopled again. I’m not gonna become another skinsuit I promise <3 KZ

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Dear Dalston:

I met this girl, Mania. She’s no Bushwick but she’s interesting. She reminds me of you. She says “If we look deep into the core of peopling, at the essential nature of our special human cognition, descriptively, then we can get a perspective on what outward manifestations of peopling are good for us, normatively”.

I’ve been thinking about dying my hair.

KZ

Text by Ella Plevin

Daniel Keller’s wide-ranging output engages with issues at the intersection of economics, technology, culture and collaboration. His current focus of research is on speculative notions of progress, technological disruption and reaction from the perspective of a post-studio ‘prosumer imagineer’ artist operating within the global networked economy. As half of Aids-3D, he has exhibited internationally since 2007. In 2012 he became Director of Absolute Vitality Inc, a Wyoming based corporation-sculpture co-owned by the artist and a group of private collectors. He co-organized TEDxVaduz which was held at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in December 2013. In 2014, he participated in residencies at Casa Maauad, Mexico City; Siliqoon, MAMbo, Bologna (IT); Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge (UK); and The Moving Museum, Istanbul (TR).

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