Winterwerkschau 2023: Projects

Project information

submitted by
Ina Weise, Lea Maria Wittich, Arijit Bhattacharyya

Co-Authors
Bernardita Bennett, Belén Arellano Cañizares, Lucía González Gaitán, Hwa Heeyun, Camilo Londoño Hernández, Rand Ibraheem, Leila Keivan Hosseini, Nadja Kračunović, Laura Leal, Eunji Lee, Hala Masri, Yumiko Mita, Maria Obermeier, Victor del Oral, John Patterson, Natalia Castillo Rincón, Patricia Sayuri, Mon Sisu Satrawaha, Yang Shen, Yaman To’meh, Jovan Turčinović, Jennifer Yue

Mentors
Lea Maria Wittich, Arijit Bhattacharyya, Vertr. Prof. Ina Weise, Jirka Reichmann (Koordination)

Faculty:
Art and Design

Degree programme:
Public Art and New Artistic Strategies (english) (Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.))

Type of project presentation
Exhibition

Links
https://www.instagram.com/bauhau...

Contributors:
Kunsthaus Dresden – Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst

Gefördert durch Kreativfonds der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Project description

The international artists of the MFA programme “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies” will transform the public space of the city into a stage on which new questions of artistic work will be tested.

In the current crises, we are witnessing, as we have not for a long time, a debate about "the West" and "the East," newly flared geopolitical conflicts that, despite everything, make the interconnectedness of the world tangible to us. Parallel to this division, the more extreme climatic conditions make us realize that we share the reality of the same planet. Especially at this time, sensitivity to neocolonial systems and postcolonial responsibilities is extremely relevant to decolonize social processes.

The exhibition project 50°59′N 11°19′E — DIS/ORIENTING STRATEGIES IN PUBLIC SPACES confronts this complex situation with site-specific artistic interventions, participatory installations and performances, that explore and deploy art as a means of social transformation through the coordinates of space, place, environment, axes, routes, connections and bodies.

The aim is to make Weimar tangible not only in its international significance, but in its international reality, and to locate the city as a place of global change with the help of a subtle, artistic mapping process.