Forschungsbericht
Curated by Severin Dünser vs. Christian Kobald
December 12, 2009 – February 27, 2010
Forschungsbericht (Severin Dünser)
»[…] We had the right codification of vengeance. The codified science of Magic. Cannibalism. For the permanent transformation of taboo into totem. Against the reversible world and objectified ideas. Made into cadavers. The halt of dynamic thinking. The individual a victim of the system. Source of classic injustices. Of romantic injustices. And the forgetfulness of interior conquests. […]«
- from »Cannibal Manifesto«, 1928 by Oswaldo de Andrade
The works in the show adopt »the other«, reflect it, and contextualize it in »the self« or »the same«. The projection of the exotic and the unfamiliar becomes itself an object, self-reflection a projection, the primitive the »all too human«, an idea of Modernity.
Patrick Baumüller
Maiken Bent
Olaf Breuning
Anne Eastman
Vassilis H
Timothy Hull
Hew Locke
Christian Mayer
Kamau Amu Patton
Dirk van Saene
Jannis Varelas
Johannes Wohnseifer
Forschungsbericht (Christian Kobald)
How should we take account of, question, describe what happens every day and recurs every day: the banal, the quotidian, the obvious, the common, the ordinary, the infra-ordinary, the background noise, the habitual.
… we walk, we open doors, we go down staircases, we sit at a table in order to eat, we lie down on a bed in order to sleep. How? Where? When? Why?
Describe your street. Describe another street. Compare.
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Question your tea spoons.
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How many movements does it take to dial a phone number? Why?
Why don't you find cigarettes in grocery stores? Why not?
It matters little to me that these questions should be fragmentary, barely indicative of a method, at most of a project. It matters a lot to me that they should seem trivial and futile: that's exactly what makes them just as essential, if not more so, as all the other questions by which we've tried in vain to hold on our truth. (Georges Perec, Approaches to What?)
Daniel Bader
Geta Bratescu
Matti Braun
Michael Huey
Nicolas Jasmin
Sands Murray-Wassink / Peter Brandt / Line Skywalker Karlstroem / Brad James
Juozas Laivys
Pak Sheung Chuen
Franz Vana
A poem by Abu Du'aib, a caption by Jorge Pardo, the title of Maurice Blanchot's »Michel Foucault tel que je l'imagine«, a description by Pierre Bourdieu, Sol LeWitt's »Autobiography«, two short clips from »American Beauty« and »Kung Fu«, episode 35, a photograph of Joseph Beuys' »Notfalls leben wir auch ohne Herz«, and lectures by Matti Braun, Roland Schöny and Joanna Warsza.