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Jag är egentligen inte en person med humor.
Men det finns i regel inget annat sätt att möta verkligheten på, än att beskriva den som den är. Konstnärerna utvecklades positivt ekonomiskt och socialt under 90-talet. De lämnade sitt tillstånd som minoritet, åtminstone på den västerländska liberala marknaden. I det svenska, schweiziska, eller vilket samhälle som helst, skapar dagens välstånds-
utveckling och ledarskapsideal den vedertagna bilden av konstnären. Konstnärer är lyckliga; några tjänar dessutom ett helvetes massa pengar. Finanskrisen 2008/09 verkar inte ha förändrat den bilden, inte i Europa i alla fall. De sociala mönster och uppfattningar som avgör framgång inom det här fältet tycks djupt inristade. Men det här är bara bakgrunden till den serie första-och andrahandsscener som jag vill dela med er.
En liknelse. En del kommer att känna igen sig med glädje, andra inte
2010A poster, a flyer, and newspaper ads announce an evening of public discussion. The invited participants of the panel are a heartsurgeon, a canyoning professional, a self-employed architect, and a sociologist, who debate risks, and the concept of risk in their respective activities and fields.
[continue reading]Risiko(verhalten)
1998Album
1997The exhibition comprised a representative selection of photographs by renowned German photo-journalist and traveller Leonore Mau. Presented next to a 16 minute audio interview with her, conducted by the artist, a reprint of selected magazine contributions by Mau from 1962–92 was featured.
[continue reading]Als Gast von Hinrich Sachs: Leonore Mau, Fotografin
2002… combines stories with vehicles as supporting actors, dealing with motion, weekend forays, pilgrimage and time travel. Visual information provided the starting point for the stories, which the artist commissioned from Ruth Buchanan, Hans-Christian Dany, Mark von Schlegell, Burkhard Strassmann, and Birgit Kempker. A peculiar process of creation and reaction is driving it.
[continue reading]Lost Once More / Sehr verfahren
2010A set of 12 volumes – 11 of them blank, the twelfth acting as a kind of index merely constituted by titles –, various papers, various dimensions, covers in green heavy duty paper, blind blocking, letterpress printing, in an edition of six. With an afterword by the writer and literary scholar Marianne Schuller.
[continue reading]Die Biografie
1991An auction of the copyrights of 14 digitised Basque „Euskara“ typefaces is announced using a press conference. It is mentioned that these rights are with a private owner, who has digitised the recognised, widely employed, traditional typefaces during the mid-90s. A media debate begins.
The related symposium „On City development and Typography“ fuels the debate, which circles around folklore, Basque identity and the changing situation in the realm of copyright.