Ein Projekt von zukunftsgeraeusche mit freundlicher Unterstützung von Kompetenzzentrum Großsiedlungen. Between May and October 2016, Plattenvereinigung provides workspace for six selected artists to realize room installations. These are intended to deal with “series and cycle” from different perspectives and to reflect the similarities and differences, tensions and contradictions that unfold betwe
en those terms. The residencies are part of a discursive program on “seriality and cycle” with public lectures and discussions. The set of installations is presented to the public, photographically accompanied and assembled as a series of images in a final exhibition. The venue itself is referring to the theme: Plattenvereinigung is made of recycled elements deriving from residential towers in Frankfurt/Oder and from the Olympic Village in Munich. Hence, the building brings together not only two stories and weaves them into a new image. Through the act of reusing, the prefabricated parts are re-evaluated – a singular item evolves from a mass product. But how important is the single work in the context of a series, how is the relationship between different elements emerging, and what are in general the conditions of a unique piece? The artistic practice occasionally is suggesting that these conditions are to locate not at least in the accidents and mistakes and that they also have to do with the obstinacy and resistance of the material. The tempting possibility, for example, to transform successful strategies into repeatable routines that allow control over the creative process and facilitate the production of artworks in series, could be opposed: Aren’t it exactly error and failure that set apart the artistic and the mechanical production? In retrospection, the six installations themselves will have formed a series. However, no co-operation in the strict sense is planned, but the individual works will form a set, a dance, a kind of relay. Each installation leaves behind something which the subsequent can translate, incorporate, mutate, destroy or even discard. Thus the artists are invited to understand the space as a workshop, where motifs can be taken, materials can be passed and thematic reflections can be transmitted. The project therefore is a matter of not only implementing a solitary work and present it to the audience, but to get inspired by the history and the physical characteristics of the room as well as by the work of another – and to eventually dare a spontaneous, unplanned, not predictable dialogue. contact and curation: Sarah Ambrosi, [email protected]
in cooperation with: zukunftsgeraeusche GbR - http://www.zukunftsgeraeusche.de/
friendly supported by: Kompetenzzentrum Grosssiedlungen e.V. - http://www.gross-siedlungen.de/
