Navaridas & Deutinger
Emancipation of Wonder (2022)

Performance / Commissioned work

Dates
1.–9.12.2022

Location
Neue Galerie Graz
Graz

Series
A War in the Distance: Exhibition

Production specifics
Commissioned by steirischer herbst ’22

Produced by Verein Performanceinitiative 22 in coproduction with steirischer herbst ’22

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.

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