Archive
#2
Academy Expanded and Expanding Exhibiting
a presentation of Displayer Magazine
by Doreen Mende
5 December . 17h
"The requirement to exhibit the final product is something we can view in the framework of the capitalist system, along the lines that an employer who has made an investment now needs to see a result. These relationships are reproduced in the collaboration among artists, curators, and directors who have invested in a work in an institutional framework. The exhibiting institution, being the last link in the chain of this market transaction, needs a visible, tangible result: a product." (Milica Tomic, Politics of Memory, Displayer 03).
While an academy is an environment which does not request a 'finished' product, the space of exhibition depends on something to be shown to a public. The lecture will be based on the project Displayer, which is a publication series of the programme Exhibition Design and Curatorial Practice at the University of Arts and Design / ZKM Karlsruhe. Displayer is a magazine of original sound. The editorial team are the students of the seminars of the University's programme.
The points of departure for the most recent issue, Displayer 03 (2009) are the demands, the challenges, and the potentialities as well as the impossibilities of exhibiting space itself. Space is the fabric in which events occur, and events, in turn activate space culturally, socially, politically and geographically. Hence, the exhibition of space is strongly connected to performative acts in addition to questions about the requirements of constructions in space.
In which way can a publication be understood as an space for exhibiting? Under which demands as well as urgencies does a publication expand the conditions of an academy? And for Displayer 03: What are the means of recording space in order to perform it at different times, in different places and different institutional settings?
Contributions Displayer 03 by Eva Kraus, Tilo Schulz, Martin Beck, Charles Jencks, Pablo Bronstein, Katrin Mayer, Stefan Römer, Walter Benjamin, Alfred Barr, Ines Katenhusen, Milica Tomic, Omer Fast, Sina Najafi, Hans Hollein, Joseph Dabernig, Achim Lengerer, Paul Gangloff, Dominique Gonzalez- Foerster, Ines Weizman, Moritz Küng, Kersten Geers, Giorgio Grassi, Guillaume Paoli, Heiner Mühlmann, Stephan Trüby, Wilfried Kuehn.
Filipa César realized Displayer 03 as a filmed book which is part of the lecture.
Displayer Magazine is published by the programme Exhibition Design and Curatorial Practice at Hochschule für Gestaltung / ZKM Karlsruhe.
http://www.displayer-hfg.de
This event had the kind support of the Goethe-Institut Lissabon.
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