RIESENHAUL
Performance von/mit Michèle Stieber.
1.12.2012 im Salon Separée. Einlass 19:00 | Beginn 20:00.
11. November 2012
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X we waited but only a few showed up
Economically
speaking, what is important is to make money; the more the better. The everyday
social engagement may be affective, creative, even productive but it only adds
up economically when it is valorized through the sacrament of money (wage,
price etc.). The dominance of economic logic imposes commodification, the
insertion of objects, subjects and relations in the market as the necessary
precondition of valorization. Even practices that claim their autonomy vis a
vis the market, like art or science, economism seems to find pathways to impose
itself as an objective, exactly because its independent, measure of value.
In our conversation we will try to highlight the mechanism of economization via the process of commodification. We will stress the consequences of this process for artistic creativity, as well as for
the construction of subjectivity. We will focus on cases where individual participation in the market is not achieved, by pointing to examples of individual economic failure, a failure that does not necessary entail social, or even more artistic or scientific failure. Economic failure is rather something to be sought for, something that is necessary for success in other domains. In some cases, economic failure is the outcome of a recalcitrant attitude, a refusal or an inability to change, to adapt in the new maxims of the trade and market.
We aim to celebrate economic failure as a way of resisting the dominance of the market, the rationality of capitalism. Failure remains one of the forms of art not yet incorporated in the process of valorization; at least not quite yet!
In our conversation we will try to highlight the mechanism of economization via the process of commodification. We will stress the consequences of this process for artistic creativity, as well as for
the construction of subjectivity. We will focus on cases where individual participation in the market is not achieved, by pointing to examples of individual economic failure, a failure that does not necessary entail social, or even more artistic or scientific failure. Economic failure is rather something to be sought for, something that is necessary for success in other domains. In some cases, economic failure is the outcome of a recalcitrant attitude, a refusal or an inability to change, to adapt in the new maxims of the trade and market.
We aim to celebrate economic failure as a way of resisting the dominance of the market, the rationality of capitalism. Failure remains one of the forms of art not yet incorporated in the process of valorization; at least not quite yet!
2. Juli 2012
Salon IX Passagen
Passagen – Fotografien flüchtiger Flächen. Christoph David Drange zeigt 5 Raum-Portraits, deren einzige Details wie etwa ein Blatt oder zwei Überwachungskameras auf subtile Weise in den Betrachterraum wirken. Die beinahe monochromen Raumflächen durchweben die Ausstellungsfläche selbst, gleichsam Tiefe hervorrufend sowie ihre Umgebung kommentierend.
Drange ist
der Zeitgeist seiner Fotografien, die er als Bilder begreift, wichtig, dennoch
sollen diese zeitungebunden und frei kombinierbar bestehen bleiben. Seine
Bilder sind keine seriell angelegten Arbeiten, sondern werden entsprechend dem
Ausstellungskontext ausgewählt, kombiniert, präsentiert.
Obwohl die Bilder
die Wirklichkeit (des Raumes) wiedergeben, fungieren sie vor allem als
Kommentar auf eine medial-designte Wirklichkeit, denn als bloße Abbildung. Hier
distanziert sich Drange entschieden von der Dokumentarfotografie.
Drange‘s objektiver
Blick gibt die Umwelt, die Raumwirklichkeit fragmentarisch wieder. Worauf
spielt dieser künstlerische Blick an? Auf das lack of reality? Auf die Kluft zwischen Objekt und Abbildung?
In jedem
Fall handelt es sich um Räume, als Fenster in zweidimensionalen Flächen, kein
Orte zum Verweilen. Orte des Durchgangs. Passagen.
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