The complete project history, including individual contributions to the bi-weekly meetings, can be found here on our website. A publication is planned.
Photos: Otto Saxinger
WE COMMIT TO MAKING ART, WE COMMIT TO CREATE.
On unstable bubbles and inclusive collaboration
The closing of the exhibition WE COMMIT TO MAKING ART, WE COMMIT TO CREATE was celebrated with many people. Thank you to all the visitors and WE COMMIT participants for this wonderful evening!
Check out what was on display:
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The exhibition “We commit to making art, we commit to creating” showcases the results of a model project developed by KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd, which explores future-oriented forms of artistic collaboration.
For seven months, bi-weekly meetings were held, open to everyone who identifies with artistic and creative work and wants to share this interest with like-minded individuals. Initially, the focus was on the general conditions of artistic production, allowing participants to explore their own needs. Various methods and techniques facilitated dialogue and active participation, with numerous guests contributing their expertise from diverse fields.
Participants were able to respond to suggested topics and were specifically encouraged to engage with the year’s theme, “Unstable Bubbles,” present their own approaches to their work, and create new pieces. Conceived as an experimental laboratory, the project enabled participants to explore the perspectives of others, delve deeper into discussions together, give them creative form, and now present them to the public.
The exhibition “We commit to making art, we commit to creating” brings together 20 artworks, employing a wide range of media, from drawing and painting to objects and installations, as well as photography and video. Equally diverse in content, the works explore everyday observations and biographical ruptures, family dynamics and questionable role models, animal representations and the current data deluge, and both meaningful and meaningless actions.
The exhibition invites viewers to consider the instabilities of their own lives and of social interaction from both playful and serious perspectives.
The exhibition invites viewers to examine the instabilities of their own lives and of social interaction from equally playful and serious viewpoints.
Exhibition Contributions: Silvia Bartoš, Maria Czernohorszky, Benedictus Quasi Deus, Maria Dirneder, Kerstin Fisslthaler, Arthur Hagg, Eva Kappelmüller, Barbara Koller, Martina Kornfehl, Melanie Ludwig, Andrea Prantl, Beate Rathmayr, Margit Riezinger, Dagmar Scharrer, Hermine Scheiber, Gertraud Sobotka, Sonja Tanzer, Anja Westerfrölke, Anke Wimmer, Monika-Maria Windtner
Project Team: Susanne Blaimschein, Beate Rathmayr, Martina Kornfehl, David Wittinghofer
Exhibition Design: Thomas Kluckner
Evaluation Team: Martin Böhm, Magdalena Plasser
Guests: Miriam Bajtala, Didi Bruckmayr, Denisa Doss, Tim Förster, Wolfgang Freiseisen, Friends of Art, Sophie Müller-Wipperfürth, Koni Oberhauser, Karin Schneider, Fritz Schwarz, Lisa Spalt Reinhard Winkler
This project is made possible by the generous support of a private donor and public funding.
Closing performance “Metamorphosis or how chance embraced me” by Martina Kornfehl:
As a thank you to all We committers, there was also a gift from KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd, designed by Beate Rathmayr.
Exhibition piece “Here one minute, gone the next. The unstable bubble I find myself in.”
by Kerstin Fisslthaler
Audio piece from the exhibition WE COMMIT TO MAKING ART, WE COMMIT TO CREATE
The audio piece “One minute here, the next gone. The unstable bubble I find myself in.” by Kerstin Fisslthaler is a contribution to the exhibition “We commit to making art, we commit to create.”
The “self-bubble” is a fragile construct that forms from a musical bubble and creates space for creativity. It’s a spoken text that explores the transformation of the self and the productivity that arises from it.
The KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd offers the “Writing Time: Meeting.” It’s an invitation to write. A regular meeting where time and space are provided, and participants begin by searching together for suitable inspiration.
Then everyone writes their own text. Those who wish can read their work aloud at the end and receive feedback.
The next Writing Time: Meeting will take place on Wednesday, July 19, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
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