Nearly All Types Of Honey Crystallize
nearly all types of honey crystallize presents the works of 11 artists from the Binational Artistic PhD Program at the HfK Bremen. It documents a series of artist residencies at the GAK project space in 2023, during which the respective artists presented and discussed parts of their artistic research in the form of installations, process presentations, discussions, lectures, performances and concerts. The current exhibition and accompanying symposium centre on the relationship between experimental artistic work and its documentation. The focus is on those processes in which selected elements are brought to light and others are made to disappear.
The documentary, or practice of documentation, involves a linking of techniques and strategies that make facts visible, audible and tangible. These techniques and strategies, in turn, are not neutral, but are rather shaped and determined by various institutions, discourses, and practices. As such, documentary sources and the act of documenting itself raise questions about what exactly is being recorded, how and which procedures are being used, and what logics of power are reflected in those processes. The exhibition presents work that shows, reiterates, and performs how acts of authentication and testimony, of registration and protocolization, manifest in the respective artistic research practices.
Works by these artists reveal conditions, investigate rules of documentable credibility, and unsettle or undermine the declared evidence of that which has been documented. For this reason, nearly all types of honey crystallize asks less about what a document is, than how something becomes a document. It explores the tension between artistic and documentary modes 鈥� in terms of the works themselves, but also in relation to social and political processes, where documenting has become a taken-for-granted, almost inflationary practice.
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nearly all types of honey crystallize presents the works of 11 artists from the Binational Artistic PhD Program at the HfK Bremen. It documents a series of artist residencies at the GAK project space in 2023, during which the respective artists presented and discussed parts of their artistic research in the form of installations, process presentations, discussions, lectures, performances and concerts. The current exhibition and accompanying symposium centre on the relationship between experimental artistic work and its documentation. The focus is on those processes in which selected elements are brought to light and others are made to disappear.
The documentary, or practice of documentation, involves a linking of techniques and strategies that make facts visible, audible and tangible. These techniques and strategies, in turn, are not neutral, but are rather shaped and determined by various institutions, discourses, and practices. As such, documentary sources and the act of documenting itself raise questions about what exactly is being recorded, how and which procedures are being used, and what logics of power are reflected in those processes. The exhibition presents work that shows, reiterates, and performs how acts of authentication and testimony, of registration and protocolization, manifest in the respective artistic research practices.
Works by these artists reveal conditions, investigate rules of documentable credibility, and unsettle or undermine the declared evidence of that which has been documented. For this reason, nearly all types of honey crystallize asks less about what a document is, than how something becomes a document. It explores the tension between artistic and documentary modes 鈥� in terms of the works themselves, but also in relation to social and political processes, where documenting has become a taken-for-granted, almost inflationary practice.
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