Involvement Requires Perception - ELEVEN WAYS TO GET INVOLVED WITH ART AND SOCIAL SPACE
6. März 2015 - 29. März 2015
- März bis 29. März 2015 Gasthaus zum Bären / Museum Bärengasse Zürich
11 project spaces – 11 art works – 11 ways
In order to expose the broad scope of ways, motivations and pay-offs of getting involved with contemporary art, the Postgraduate Programme in Curating has invited eleven project spaces and curatorial teams to the Gasthaus zum Bären in Zurich.
By reversing the evocative slogan of artist Antoni Muntadas Perception Requires Involvement, the exhibition title aims to allude to the close relation of social awareness, knowledge production and image circulation. The intention is to show various ways by which the discussion of topics relevant for today’s society is translated into the sphere of contemporary art and back.
Each curatorial initiative is given one of the eleven rooms at the Gasthaus zum Bären. Each of them will elaborate their approach in dialogue with an art work. The term “art work“ is understood in a broad sense, stretching from objects to social sculptures and other experimental formats. All eleven participants are self-organized and as part of the exhibition are asked to provide an insight on how they run.
The participating project spaces include:
100plus (Zurich, CH), bblackboxx (Basel, CH), CENTER (Berlin, D), DIENSTGEBÄUDE (Zurich, CH), eggn’spoon (Zurich, CH), Gasconade (Milan, I), HACIENDA (Zurich, CH), LULU (Mexico City, MEX), Raum № (Bern, CH), SALTS (Basel, CH), VACANT (Tokyo, JP)
The paricipating artists include:
Copa & Sordes, bblackboxx no border academy, Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Mathis Gasser, Colin Guillemet, Beat Huber, Aron Kullander-Östling, Antoine Renard, Rub Kandy, Jonas Schnyder, Rosalie Schweiker, et al.
Collective Composing – Statement eggn’spoon
Curating for us means acting as a research collectiv and to explore the border between the visible and the unvisible. We are an independent team of artists and curators. Lining up in varying formations and collaborating with external partners, we realise exhibition projects that face up to topical issues outside institutional spaces. In cooperation with artists and other participants we engage in ethnographical fieldwork of sorts, attempting to lift the lid on the non-visual, marginalized and bring it back into the context of current artistic discourse. We are not primarily concerned with the site itself, but rather with the site as a carrier of something else. By putting it into a new, contemporary context, we try to breathe new life into this “otherness”. We see our curatorial collaboration as an act of collective composing which is both transdisciplinary and transmedia. It is our aim to reexamine the existing material and the history of art, in a critical but nonetheless cheerful manner. eggnʼspoon try to open a another gate within visual art and expand its field through the multiplication of views […].
eggn’spoon is a “space” off space. A space that constantly constitutes itself under changing requirements/conditions. It filters information, arranges connections and generates new links between various publics – also between facebook and off-space […]
Nadja Baldini / Beat Huber
