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Zoë Gray about art trends: tired of participating?
http://db-artmag.com/en/87/feature/art-trends-tired-of-participating/ Zoë Gray Senior Curator, WIELS, centre for contemporary art, Brussels Photo: Manuel Versaen Zoë Gray As Duchamp famously said, it is the viewer who makes the work of art. Our role as viewer is therefore of equal importance to the role of the artist. All works of art are thus participative, whether they require physical interaction or mental engagement. We have never been simply viewers. Koki Tanaka’s approach to participation is both open and generous. We can divide his recent work into two main tendencies: setting a group of people a common task and filming their way of working together; or proposing an open-ended, shared activity in which Tanaka also participates. Walking with Dogs (Rennes, 2014) is one of these latter works and was aimed at dog-owners and their dogs, but was also open to those of us without canine companions. The artist told the gathered walkers and hounds where we were g...
Sebastian Preuss about art trends: tired of participating?
http://db-artmag.com/en/87/feature/art-trends-tired-of-participating/ Sebastian Preuss Deputy Editor in Chief Weltkunst, Berlin © ZEIT Verlag/Vera Rammen Sebastian Preuss Always more, always something new—that’s not only the case in art, but is the essence of capitalism. And if today we’re experiencing a period of increasingly hectic, increasingly greedy hyper-capitalism, then of course the carousel of purported new sensations is turning faster and crazier in art too. There’s no doubt about that. But the interesting question is: Does art have a chance of countering this development with a new slowness, with more persistence, and with less “innovation”—which the works usually aren’t anyway. I remain pessimistic, as long as art is determined by a completely overheated and unequally distributed market. Artists who want to survive can’t get out of the turbo-spiral. And we viewers—in other words, consumers—are merely children of our age. Fortunately there are a few isolated...
Mareike Dittmer about : art trends: tired of participating?
http://db-artmag.com/en/87/feature/art-trends-tired-of-participating/ Mareike Dittmer Editor Frieze d/e, Berlin Mareike Dittmer Asking people to participate in art calls to mind Bartleby’s mantra “I would prefer not to.” If exhibitions are events that incorporate viewers like festivals of emotions yet also demand complicity, social compatibility, and maximum attention—then distance is my preferred alternative. However, the principle of evanescence as performance interests me a lot, although it, too, relies on participation in a social context. Perhaps this is because, as opposed to ephemeral installations and situations, calculated participatory spectacles allow for coincidences and thus produce an ambiguity dedicated to the moment. Ultimately, though, the question of the pros and cons of participation—like so many other things—can only be assessed based on a concrete work and for that particular work.
A Juried Exhibition Open to All Women Artists
THE 4TH A.I.R. GALLERY CURRENTS EXHIBITON! A Juried Exhibition Open to All Women Artists A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce the open call for CURRENTS, a timely and innovative biennial exhibition series. CURRENTS addresses contemporary issues that warrant expanded critical attention in the art world. A.I.R.’s fourth presentation in the CURRENTS exhibition series will be curated by Anthony Elms , writer, Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and the Editor of WhiteWalls Inc. Do you hear what I hear? Curated by Anthony Elms Do you hear what I hear? is a question posed by one person to another. Behind Do you hear what I hear? is a request—hope—for a connection between individuals responding to their environment. Work in all media will be accepted, or listened to, even as listening is directly alluded to in the title. How do you listen? It depends on who you are. Current affairs routinely offer tragic examples of t...
Simon Njami about : art trends: tired of participating?
http://db-artmag.com/en/87/feature/art-trends-tired-of-participating/ Simon Njami Curator, Author and Art Critic, Paris Photo: David Damoison Simon Njami We don’t have to participate. I don’t have to participate. Participating, for me, is a passive position. It means going with the crowd. It means being politically correct. The world is dying of this participation that leaves no room for controversy or discussion. When people say participate, they necessarily mean “doing something for the good cause.” Being part of the rightful. I don’t care. I want to be able to have my own opinion, even if it does not please the majority. I cherish the critical gaze that makes me different. What would be the world if everyone would be “participating”? All the totalitarian regimes were build on participation. When we read Orwell’s 1984 we see that those who don’t participate are immediately looked at as guilty, as troublemakers. I want to be a troublemaker. I want to have a...