RÄUMEN
Video
With the exhibition project RÄUMEN in the KunstQuartier Salzburg, the inter-university doctoral program Art and Public Impact: Dynamics of Change, which is jointly funded by the Mozarteum University and the Paris Lodron University as well as by the province of Salzburg, wants to introduce itself.
RÄUMEN, the leitmotivically conceived title of the exhibition, emphasizes what is processual in the form of dynamic transitions.
RÄUMEN means: We work on texts, but also against them; we deal with realities, shift and twist concepts, rearrange and redesign.
RÄUMEN is an activity, a symbol of a practice that constantly brings forth new perspectives and alters them.
The exhibition project addresses the creation and visualization of synergies between scientific and artistic practices. The negotiation of this interplay should be experienced in a space of possibility that draws lines of connection between various approaches, dimensions and perspectives. The spatial concept conceived by set designer Magdalena Hofer (Mozarteum University) accentuates the activity of making and permanently shifting the creation and justification of knowledge. The contents, ideas and figures from the individual projects thus become comprehensible.
We would have liked to have opened this space of possibility to visitors and participants in the spring and fall of 2020 and introduce ourselves in the context of a lecture performance, but the Covid-related restrictions made a physical presentation impossible – twice – so we now have to move it to the virtual.
Taking up the idea of RÄUMEN, we have conceived a video for the exhibition that reflects the current situation: The projected exhibit has become a relic, recalling the planned opening ceremony, the conversations that would have developed, the anticipation of the project and collaborative practice altogether. Now we are moving, shifting and clearing under different conditions and in different ways than would have been possible together. Often it is quieter: With the perspectives of others missing, one’s own axis increasingly becomes the center – the space that is experienced and appropriated together frays into fragments. And in these times, “public” and “change” have also taken on very different meanings from we had imagined. At the same time, the video is a sign of life for the college, an arrangement that resists the derangement of shared experience.
Martina Fladerer
Raffael Hiden
Julia Jordan
Gwendolin Lehnerer
Ielizaveta Oliinyk
Ivana Pilić
Anna Stadler
24.11.2020
