A Portrait of the Artist as a Researcher
Exhibition from 13 July 2007 – 26 August 2007, daily 10am-8pm. Free entrance
Preview: Thursday 12 July 2007, 7pm
With:
Annette Wehrmann, Ina Wudtke, Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Herman Asselberghs, Dieter Lesage
Venue:
Freiraum, quartier21/MQ, Museumsplatz 1, A-1070 Vienna
Further information:
quartier21.mqw.at
Press Photo
In attachment you will find a press photo in 300 dpi (10x15cm). On demand, the photograph is also available in a larger format. It shows a still from the video A Portrait of the Artist as a worker. (rmx.) by Ina Wudtke. Print for announcements and critiques is free of charge. Photo credits: Ina Wudtke/Birgit Wudtke.
About the exhibition
Artistic work can often be understood as research, even if its methodology is different from that of science. The exhibition A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A RESEARCHER is a plea for the recognition of the specificity of artistic research, and for the art academy as a place of free artistic research, beyond the limits of the market, beyond all academic norms – even after ‚Bologna’.
European higher education undergoes a far-reaching transformation. This process was launched by the Joint Declaration of European Ministers of Higher Education in Bologna on 19 June 1999. The Bologna Process is supposed to lead to the establishment of a European Higher Education Area, which should allow Europe to become the world’s strongest knowledge economy by 2010. If conforming to specific academic standards, study courses at European institutions of higher education will lead to officially recognized Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctor’s Degrees.
The exhibition A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A RESEARCHER questions the ideology of the Bologna Process. On the one hand, it shows works that are the result of artistic research, on the other hand these works comment, circle around or criticise the discourse on ‚mobility’ and ‚flexibility’ that is characteristic of the Bologna Process.
In his film CAPSULAR, the Belgian artist Herman Asselberghs, winner of the transmediale.07 Award, addresses the question how much mobility Europe effectively supports. In Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in Morocco, he filmed the European wall which is supposed to stop African immigrants. The two architects of Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen too question the ‚state of exception’, exemplified by Ceuta. Their work - such as their plans for the new capital of South-Korea – are characterised by a critical reflection on the political circumstances of the architectural plan.
The questionable philosophy of mobility is the theme of two German artists. The work of Annette Wehrmann reflects the use of public space in the MuseumsQuartier. As in many other places in the western world, there are some ‚artst’s studios’ in the MuseumsQuartier. ‚Artist’s studios’ often correspond with a concept of artistic support, which sees the artist as a hypermobile nomad, who changes constantly between places and spaces. The film A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A WORKER (RMX.) of the Berlin artist Ina Wudtke, aka DJ T-INA, is an ironic self-presentation as mobile and flexible artist, moving constantly between cities and projects.
In our flexible ‚project society’, we change so often between our different professional identities, that every rigid identity dissolves and it becomes unclear, what criteria quality control agencies should check. Our society is not only a ‚society of control’, as Foucault wrote. It is a ‚quality control society’. ‚Self evaluation’ – universities and academies know this quite well — is as much an instrument of this ‚society of control’ as surveillance cameras. With OUTPUT (RMX.) the Belgian philosopher Dieter Lesage had the ‚output’ of his research activities, all his publications, photographed. In this way, the publication list, one of the most well-known instruments of academic control, becomes a work of art, and yet another (artistic) publication.
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A RESEARCHER is curated by Ina Wudtke and Dieter Lesage and is an initiative of the Institute for Drama and Audiovisual Arts (IDeA) and the department Rits of the Erasmushogeschool Brussel, supported by the AiR Programm of the quartier 21/MQ. The exhibition will serve as a platform for presentations, performances and discussions on ‚artistic research’.
Lectures, presentations and performances during the exhibition
Friday 13.07.2007 at 6pm:
Tossing the Incompatible: on Art and Research. Lecture by Prof. Douglas Irving Repetto (Columbia University, New York), founder of dorkbot and Jan De Pauw (IDeA, Department Rits, Erasmushogeschool Brussel) (in English)
Saturday 14.07.2007 at 4pm:
Addressing the Spectacle of the Real. Artist presentation by Herman Asselberghs (Brussels) (in English).
Saturday 14.07.2007 at 6pm:
Cité de Refuge. Lecture by Kersten Geers & David Van Severen (Brussels) (in English).
Wednesday 18.07.2007 at 6pm:
A Portrait of the Artist as a DJ. Lecture by Ina Wudtke (Berlin) & Dieter Lesage (Berlin/Brussels) and book presentation of Dieter Lesage, A Portrait of the Artist as a DJ. Notes on Ina Wudtke (Brussels, VdH Books, 2007) (in English).
Thursday 19.07.2007 at 6pm:
Mehr wissen? Das versprechen künstlerischer Forschung. Lecture by J.-Prof. Dr. Kathrin Busch (Institut für Kulturtheorie, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) (in German).
Friday 20.07.2007 at 6pm:
The Academy and the Corporate Public. Lecture by Prof. Stephan Dillemuth (Akademie der bildenden Künste, Munich) (in English).
Saturday 21.07.2007 & Saturday 28.07.2007 at 4pm:
Doppel. Performance by Annette Wehrmann (Hamburg) (in German).
Saturday 25.08.2007 at 4pm:
On Artistic Research. Book launch of Kathrin Busch, Dieter Lesage & Dieter Roelstraete (eds.), On Artistic Research, (AS #179), Antwerp, MuHKA, 2007. With contributions by Herman Asselberghs, Elke Bippus, Beatrice Von Bismarck, Sabeth Buchmann, Kathrin Busch, Hans-Christian Dany, Jan De Pauw, Diedrich Diederichsen, Mika Hannula, Dieter Lesage, Eva Meyer, Marion von Osten, Douglas Irving Repetto, Dieter Roelstraete, Eran Schaerf, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Klaas Tindemans, Annette Wehrmann, Ina Wudtke, Ulf Wuggenig, a.o. (in English).
Exhibition from 13 July 2007 – 26 August 2007, daily 10am-8pm. Free entrance
Preview: Thursday 12 July 2007, 7pm
With:
Annette Wehrmann, Ina Wudtke, Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Herman Asselberghs, Dieter Lesage
Venue:
Freiraum, quartier21/MQ, Museumsplatz 1, A-1070 Vienna
Further information:
quartier21.mqw.at
Press Photo
In attachment you will find a press photo in 300 dpi (10x15cm). On demand, the photograph is also available in a larger format. It shows a still from the video A Portrait of the Artist as a worker. (rmx.) by Ina Wudtke. Print for announcements and critiques is free of charge. Photo credits: Ina Wudtke/Birgit Wudtke.
About the exhibition
Artistic work can often be understood as research, even if its methodology is different from that of science. The exhibition A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A RESEARCHER is a plea for the recognition of the specificity of artistic research, and for the art academy as a place of free artistic research, beyond the limits of the market, beyond all academic norms – even after ‚Bologna’.
European higher education undergoes a far-reaching transformation. This process was launched by the Joint Declaration of European Ministers of Higher Education in Bologna on 19 June 1999. The Bologna Process is supposed to lead to the establishment of a European Higher Education Area, which should allow Europe to become the world’s strongest knowledge economy by 2010. If conforming to specific academic standards, study courses at European institutions of higher education will lead to officially recognized Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctor’s Degrees.
The exhibition A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A RESEARCHER questions the ideology of the Bologna Process. On the one hand, it shows works that are the result of artistic research, on the other hand these works comment, circle around or criticise the discourse on ‚mobility’ and ‚flexibility’ that is characteristic of the Bologna Process.
In his film CAPSULAR, the Belgian artist Herman Asselberghs, winner of the transmediale.07 Award, addresses the question how much mobility Europe effectively supports. In Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in Morocco, he filmed the European wall which is supposed to stop African immigrants. The two architects of Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen too question the ‚state of exception’, exemplified by Ceuta. Their work - such as their plans for the new capital of South-Korea – are characterised by a critical reflection on the political circumstances of the architectural plan.
The questionable philosophy of mobility is the theme of two German artists. The work of Annette Wehrmann reflects the use of public space in the MuseumsQuartier. As in many other places in the western world, there are some ‚artst’s studios’ in the MuseumsQuartier. ‚Artist’s studios’ often correspond with a concept of artistic support, which sees the artist as a hypermobile nomad, who changes constantly between places and spaces. The film A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A WORKER (RMX.) of the Berlin artist Ina Wudtke, aka DJ T-INA, is an ironic self-presentation as mobile and flexible artist, moving constantly between cities and projects.
In our flexible ‚project society’, we change so often between our different professional identities, that every rigid identity dissolves and it becomes unclear, what criteria quality control agencies should check. Our society is not only a ‚society of control’, as Foucault wrote. It is a ‚quality control society’. ‚Self evaluation’ – universities and academies know this quite well — is as much an instrument of this ‚society of control’ as surveillance cameras. With OUTPUT (RMX.) the Belgian philosopher Dieter Lesage had the ‚output’ of his research activities, all his publications, photographed. In this way, the publication list, one of the most well-known instruments of academic control, becomes a work of art, and yet another (artistic) publication.
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A RESEARCHER is curated by Ina Wudtke and Dieter Lesage and is an initiative of the Institute for Drama and Audiovisual Arts (IDeA) and the department Rits of the Erasmushogeschool Brussel, supported by the AiR Programm of the quartier 21/MQ. The exhibition will serve as a platform for presentations, performances and discussions on ‚artistic research’.
Lectures, presentations and performances during the exhibition
Friday 13.07.2007 at 6pm:
Tossing the Incompatible: on Art and Research. Lecture by Prof. Douglas Irving Repetto (Columbia University, New York), founder of dorkbot and Jan De Pauw (IDeA, Department Rits, Erasmushogeschool Brussel) (in English)
Saturday 14.07.2007 at 4pm:
Addressing the Spectacle of the Real. Artist presentation by Herman Asselberghs (Brussels) (in English).
Saturday 14.07.2007 at 6pm:
Cité de Refuge. Lecture by Kersten Geers & David Van Severen (Brussels) (in English).
Wednesday 18.07.2007 at 6pm:
A Portrait of the Artist as a DJ. Lecture by Ina Wudtke (Berlin) & Dieter Lesage (Berlin/Brussels) and book presentation of Dieter Lesage, A Portrait of the Artist as a DJ. Notes on Ina Wudtke (Brussels, VdH Books, 2007) (in English).
Thursday 19.07.2007 at 6pm:
Mehr wissen? Das versprechen künstlerischer Forschung. Lecture by J.-Prof. Dr. Kathrin Busch (Institut für Kulturtheorie, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) (in German).
Friday 20.07.2007 at 6pm:
The Academy and the Corporate Public. Lecture by Prof. Stephan Dillemuth (Akademie der bildenden Künste, Munich) (in English).
Saturday 21.07.2007 & Saturday 28.07.2007 at 4pm:
Doppel. Performance by Annette Wehrmann (Hamburg) (in German).
Saturday 25.08.2007 at 4pm:
On Artistic Research. Book launch of Kathrin Busch, Dieter Lesage & Dieter Roelstraete (eds.), On Artistic Research, (AS #179), Antwerp, MuHKA, 2007. With contributions by Herman Asselberghs, Elke Bippus, Beatrice Von Bismarck, Sabeth Buchmann, Kathrin Busch, Hans-Christian Dany, Jan De Pauw, Diedrich Diederichsen, Mika Hannula, Dieter Lesage, Eva Meyer, Marion von Osten, Douglas Irving Repetto, Dieter Roelstraete, Eran Schaerf, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Klaas Tindemans, Annette Wehrmann, Ina Wudtke, Ulf Wuggenig, a.o. (in English).