with:
Janosch Becker, Benjamin Bethel, Wieland Birckner, Florian Bode, Ipek Burçak, Lisa Dreykluft, Stefan Geyer, Marven Graf, Sina Gruber, Jacob Höfle, Katharina Keller, Julia Krawetzke, Daniela Kreutter, Ida Lorbach, Vivien Poppek, Lukas Schwarzer, Katharina Wehner, Hugo Bel, Camille Blondel, Charlotte Caldier, Charly Dubois-Escorell, Oksana Halchak, Rebecca Konforti, Romain Ruiz, Emmanuel Simon, menée par Kerstin Drechsel, enseignante à Kunsthochschule Kassel et Katharina Schmidt enseignante à l'isdaT.
extract from the press release:
At the core of this workshop we ask questions about the context of painting and the field extended towards other mediums. We have the goal of analysing the work of the participants and their relationship with the space of representation (the image) and the space of exhibition...
The history of art and painting follows its course, all the way to modernity and late modernity, with for condition, bipolar gender relationships that impose different roles on men and women. The social and aesthetic codes of modernity continue to be felt today in the image of the artist, according to which, it is important to struggle for the recognition of a particularly original identity. It also acts on the aesthetic and commercial categories relative to the production and exhibition of art and painting.
It is a question of our immediate past that, not only in the field of art, is still mainly determined by male participants and that, from a neocolonial standpoint, influences our conception of ourselves.
Though modernity, beyond having stable values, also possesses utopias that seem achievable, we find ourselves today in a situation that seems uncertain from every point of view. The influence of the West has weakened, and utopias have disappeared. Static in appearance, this situation may nonetheless be set in motion by the current debate on gender. It is Judith Butler in particular who dismantled a bipolar vision, predominant in
modern feminist theories, to the benefit of a perspective that describes sexual identity in a more complex manner. According to Judith Butler, the reality of gender is a construction that is formed in a particular social, cultural and political context and one that questions the biological categories of sex. For Judith Butler, no one is founded entirely on social norms: it is the result rather of an interplay between gender and sex that opens the possibility of developing new, ambivalent formations.
While paying close attention to this thinking, we ask ourselves what an exhibition with a more fragile, open and nomadic character could look like? Mobility and de-hierarchisation are the central subjects of politique 2 l'accrochage at the Interim.
INTERIM am Kulturbahnhof
Ausstellungsfläche der Kunsthochschule Kassel
Franz-Ulrich-Str. 16
34117 Kassel
