Ich/I (year-round)
01 Jan - 31 Dec 2013
KÜNSTLERHAUS PORTRAIT: ICH/I (YEAR-ROUND)
1 January - 31 December 2013
Among other events and exhibition projects Künstlerhaus Stuttgart celebrates its 35th anniversary with a performance program entitled, “Ich/I,” that investigates how artists approach the form and frame of institutional space, demanding change through research and production of imaginary scenarios. The program will be composed of several directions and episodes, bringing together a range of diverse artists with critical interdisciplinary practices relating to performance, sound and intervention. This year-long project will begin in May 2013 as a flashback to the May of 1978, when Künstlerhaus was established by Stuttgart-based artists. Accumulating the remarks, reminiscences and tracks developed during the sessions “Ich/I” augments itself as a collective portrait of an artist studio, an institution by artists as well as a space for artistic freedom and conceptual experiments. The participating artists will examine how artists define, position, and transform their roles today with regard to contextuality, the medium of performance functioning as a criticism on institutions as it reflects the initial intention of the artists who founded Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Contextualizing the means by which crises operate on individual levels and transformations of societies/communities/systems influence the artistic vision of future, “Ich/I” operates as a place for imagination, creativity and curiosity. Articulating the self through such a simple mono-syllabic form of expression, “Ich/I” proposes diverse forms of self-presentation, and conceptions of stage through which artists are able to express themselves while simultaneously reflecting and criticizing the institution. “Ich/I” is an attempt to reconstruct the artistic motivations, which were established, generated and have survived over the decades as the essence of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Debates, memories and sound-recordings of events and performances will be documented, evolving into a portrait of an artist’s studio as it emerges from an artist-borne institution.
1 January - 31 December 2013
Among other events and exhibition projects Künstlerhaus Stuttgart celebrates its 35th anniversary with a performance program entitled, “Ich/I,” that investigates how artists approach the form and frame of institutional space, demanding change through research and production of imaginary scenarios. The program will be composed of several directions and episodes, bringing together a range of diverse artists with critical interdisciplinary practices relating to performance, sound and intervention. This year-long project will begin in May 2013 as a flashback to the May of 1978, when Künstlerhaus was established by Stuttgart-based artists. Accumulating the remarks, reminiscences and tracks developed during the sessions “Ich/I” augments itself as a collective portrait of an artist studio, an institution by artists as well as a space for artistic freedom and conceptual experiments. The participating artists will examine how artists define, position, and transform their roles today with regard to contextuality, the medium of performance functioning as a criticism on institutions as it reflects the initial intention of the artists who founded Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Contextualizing the means by which crises operate on individual levels and transformations of societies/communities/systems influence the artistic vision of future, “Ich/I” operates as a place for imagination, creativity and curiosity. Articulating the self through such a simple mono-syllabic form of expression, “Ich/I” proposes diverse forms of self-presentation, and conceptions of stage through which artists are able to express themselves while simultaneously reflecting and criticizing the institution. “Ich/I” is an attempt to reconstruct the artistic motivations, which were established, generated and have survived over the decades as the essence of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Debates, memories and sound-recordings of events and performances will be documented, evolving into a portrait of an artist’s studio as it emerges from an artist-borne institution.