About
The art project SCHUND by Georgina Obstgarten and Carsten Wagner is inspired by smutty old black and white comics from the 1970s and 1980s. Salacious, provocatice and offensively presented scenes from a world full of sex, violence and drama form the fabric of which the artists create their works. Societal role models and stereotypes of their time are condensed within these comics. While still concealed within the mass of drawings on paper, they are brought into focus and showcased in the SCHUND images. Characters are detached from their original scenes and recontextualized. Backgrounds and colors work as design elements that allow the figures to stand as independent images – regardless of the sequence within the original comic.
Georgina Obstgarten leads a double life. When everyone is watching, she manages soaring flights of academic intellect using a secret name. However, art is only tangentially involved in all of this. Her intended art studies didn't work out because the submitted works didn't meet the expected conformity. However, that hasn't stopped her from secretly contributing to the art project SCHUND and quietly acquiring a Theremin for experimental music projects.
Carsten Wagner primarily does something with media for a living and has long been reluctant to commit to any particular art form. Over time, alongside the art project SCHUND, his creativity has focused mainly on musical expressions. In addition to various other music projects, he performs as an experimental DJ/remixer under the pseudonym Doktor Telefonmann.