Art and its discourses often appear elitist or inaccessible. In their performances, Navaridas & Deutinger challenge this view by expanding discussions about art to deliberately include non-academic, spontaneous language codes.

In a series of workshops held in September, they let themselves be guided through the exhibition by a group of eight- to nine-year-olds while blindfolded, allowing the children to explain every artwork in their own terms. Their comments and interpretations are recorded and transcribed.

With the resulting material, Navaridas & Deutinger develop guided tours for grown-ups, to be held in December, in which they revisit the artworks of A War in the Distance without adult prejudice but with the unique poetics of childish vision.

Mediathek

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https://2022.steirischerherbst.at/en/program/artists/3659/navaridas-deutinger