Crossing An Empty Beach To Look At The Ocean
This group exhibition is the beginning of a search for a politics of friendship in connection with the question, which Gesellschaft f眉r Aktuelle Kunst (which translates to 鈥濻ociety for Contemporary Art鈥�). Friendship here does not mean 鈥� in the narrow sense 鈥� being together with friends, but (following C茅line Condorelli and others) living with and acknowledging differences, persons alive and dead, objects, books, thoughts, contexts and environments 鈥� for example. The intention here is not to dissolve the self, but to permanently reconfigure it, to be open and friendly to other without leveling it or making an Other out of it. A politics of friendship concerns the actions, representations and aesthetics with which we depict and also form certain understandings and a behavior towards the world.
In this sense, the exhibition gathers works by artists who propose or develop other forms of movement and a different language. They negotiate time periods of and approaches to thinking, relationships to material as well as to territories. All these aspects are linked to conflicts, power relations and contradictions, but also to possibilities.
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This group exhibition is the beginning of a search for a politics of friendship in connection with the question, which Gesellschaft f眉r Aktuelle Kunst (which translates to 鈥濻ociety for Contemporary Art鈥�). Friendship here does not mean 鈥� in the narrow sense 鈥� being together with friends, but (following C茅line Condorelli and others) living with and acknowledging differences, persons alive and dead, objects, books, thoughts, contexts and environments 鈥� for example. The intention here is not to dissolve the self, but to permanently reconfigure it, to be open and friendly to other without leveling it or making an Other out of it. A politics of friendship concerns the actions, representations and aesthetics with which we depict and also form certain understandings and a behavior towards the world.
In this sense, the exhibition gathers works by artists who propose or develop other forms of movement and a different language. They negotiate time periods of and approaches to thinking, relationships to material as well as to territories. All these aspects are linked to conflicts, power relations and contradictions, but also to possibilities.
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