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MINIMENTS will take place in the Weimar urban space in the form of temporary installations, actions, performances and interventions that question and test the processes of remembering and forgetting evident in monuments. The project is taking a cue from Jochen and Esther Gerz’s watershed ”Monument Against Fascism” (1986-1993) in Hamburg which fundamentally questioned the representational ability of the memorial. The task of the memorial today must be thought anew: in place of the memorial of monumental design with claim to universality and permanence come multiple works from alterable materials or performative acts whose existence is limited in time. Intensive research on site in the public space form the prerequisite for an examination of the city from the often very subjective perspective of the artists. The focus of the artistic research and interventions is on barely visible traces of the GDR past, but also on the history of the city as a site of the so-called Weimar Classicism and its role during the Nazi era. Due to the current restrictions, students will be provided with additional research material in the form of links by the MFA team. The works are interested in how monuments and places of – also personal – remembrance create memory, public and private; they address the visibility and invisibility of the past in today's world and its different current political appropriations; they show how closely the perception of history is interwoven with our own individual biographical and cultural background.
Students are asked to prepare individual temporary installations, actions, performances and interventions in public space and to produce a 3-minute presentation of their intervention, all of which will be presented on a website together online. This may consist of a documentation, the art work itself or a combination of text and image and in its from should consider the meaning of public space in times of Corona.
Taking place in the context of the BAUHAUS DINNER WITH… lectures series, director of Kunstmuseum Stuttgart Ulrike Groos will reflect on the relationship between art and food. In addition, an artistic dinner event (performances, actions etc.), organized by the MFA and PhD students will complete the evening. This event is planned to take place in a physical format on June 30, tbc according to the public health regulations.
With the continuation of the event series MIND PALACES, a special edition of interdisciplinary social-utopian laboratory in Bauhaus-Museum Weimar will take place in form of 45 min online formats that combine excerpts of selected works by the MFA artists and perspectives of dialogue with invited guests developed in the framework of Bauhaus module MIND PALACES, moderated by Boris Buden – an attempt to activate the values and utopias embedded in the Bauhaus idea in times of Corona. The aim is to open up the Bauhaus legacy for a continued examination of contemporary political, ecological and social issues and to, together with the public, further generate connections between art, education, and discourse.
Kooperationspartner 2020
Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Bauhaus-Museum Weimar
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