11 artists “in transit” from Canada, the USA, Greece, Chile, Mexico, P.R. China and Germany from the postgraduate program Public Arts and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus University Weimar exhibit work based on the idea of memory and the dissolution of the White Cube.
Eröffnung: Freitag, 12. März / 19 Uhr
Ausstellung: 13. März – 10. April
Finissage: Samstag, 10. April / 19 Uhr
The White Cube can be considered a monumentalized term from a globalized Eurocentric perspective on contemporary art. As public artists, the participants have explored the elasticity of the terms’s edges, testing for abstract potential, flexibility, and mobility.
arttransponder is an artist association that has run a project space for five years on the heavily gentrified Brunnenstraße and is currently facing the space’s closing in June. In both, a literal and a metaphorical sense, arttransponder, which has focused on participatory projects at the interface to other disciplines, can be seen as consciously working inside and outside the White Cube, testing and redefining its boundaries, while reflecting on institutional power of defining art and its value.
This project was developed in relation to the question of how an art space might continue after it is (re)moved from its precarious position within existing architectural structures in a rapidly transforming urban environment: as an idea, a concept or actual mobile space, possibly floating, disembodied, into the future –
The subject is the dissolution of the project space and the move into an office, the question, what this offers in terms of opportunities and whether arttransponder could position a Baucontainer on one of the many fallow spaces in Berlin. Broader themes are the precarious situation of project spaces in an urban context undergoing rapid transformation, gentrification, the movement into and out of the White Cube in a “real life” situation:
TESTING/COLLECTING/EXPERIMENTING: Do project groups need a space? What do artists need a space for? What are the advantages or disadvantages of having a space? Precarity has been romanticized in Berlin: supposedly, it is poor but sexy. How is poverty related to disposing over no space? Who benefits from all the extra free labour that this sexy impermanence entails? Should most artists be mobile? When is mobility a privilege for artists (some say you can tell how successful an artist is by his/her frequent flyer mileage), when does it show a lack of privilege. [Lisa Glauer]
Mario Rizzi directed a three day workshop with the participants. The result is on view in the project space.
arttransponder e. V.
Brunnenstraße 151
10115 Berlin
Tel: 030 – 30 64 24 00
http://www.arttransponder.net/
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