Utopie und Monument II

Über die Virtuosität des Öffentlichen


Public space, Exhibition

Dates
24.9.–2.11.2010

Details
Interventionen des Institutes für Zeitgenössische Kunst
beim Ausstellungspavillon
Do 30.9., 16.00 - 19.00
Performativer Input
Do 7.10., 16.00 - 19.00
Installation
Do 14.10., 16.00 - 19.00
Sound-, Medieninstallation

Location
Öffentlicher Raum Graz, Ausstellungspavillon Tummelplatz
Graz

Production specifics
Auftragswerk steirischer herbst

In Kooperation mit Centrum für Sozialforschung an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz & Institut für Zeitgenössische Kunst (IZK) an der Technischen Universität (TU) Graz

Dank an Hans Kupelwieser

Projektförderer Land Steiermark

Projektsponsor Think!, Gebrüder Weiss & Alpenländische Schilderfabrik

Utopia as a space of thought, the monument as a space of memory: art beyond the museum and gallery negotiating these two imaginary spaces plays an important role in the history of steirischer herbst, but has increasingly fallen into disrepute. Last year, the two-stage exhibition project “Utopia and Monument” above all examined the privatisation of the public space. This year it focuses on the question as to how art for public space is exposed to the gaze of others but at the same time needs their presence: what transfers, what interventions, but also what disappearances insist on sharing common space?

How do artists deal with this situation of their exposure (as a political act?), how do they react to the expectations and various interests with which they are confronted? What specific abilities and skills do they possess with regard to designing memorials, sculptures and monuments – that is to say, interventions intended to create public effect, a political terrain of common affairs? What networks and proven co-operations do they avail themselves of? Do they need cunning PR strategies to make their own work visible in public space in the first place?

This exhibition for the public space with its commissioned works becomes an experiment exploring the question whether the public space can still offer the “space of appearance”, as politically organised space, as described by Hannah Arendt. The exhibition covers a wide range of works from collective models and changes in the psycho-geographical sphere all the way to work; work in which artistic authorship is reduced to a script, with the work being carried out by someone else.

Kuratorin / Kurator: Sabine Breitwieser
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Armando Andrade Tudela
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Kader Attia
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Angela Ferreira
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Andrea Fraser
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Isa Genzken
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: John Knight
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Jutta Koether
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Kooperative für Darstellungspolitik
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Paulina Olowska
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Michael Schuster
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Ruby Sircar
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Studierende der IZK/TU Graz
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: sozYAH

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