Wie kann Protest zur Kunst werden? Die performativ angelegte Präsentation des Künstlers Thierry Geoffroy und des Kunstwissenschaftlers Sebastian Baden verfolgt eine prekäre Fragestellung. Es geht dabei um die Ästhetik von Demonstrationen einerseits, aber andererseits auch um die künstlerische Aneignung von Protestbewegungen. Eine politische Kundgebung möchte jedoch Ernst genommen und nicht für eine künstlerische Geste gehalten werden. Für Kunstschaffende mit politischem Interesse bedeutet die eigene Arbeit hingegen eine Demonstration mit gesellschaftsrelevanter Aussage. Das Dilemma der politischen Kunst zwischen Autonomie und Selbstbehauptung scheint unauflösbar, erst recht in Zeiten der Post-Avantgarde. Wir werden gemeinsam versuchen, eine Handlungsanweisung zu formulieren, die Protest als künstlerische Praxis vorstellt und Kunst in der Sprechakttheorie verortet, d.h. als gesellschaftspolitisch wirksam begreift. Dazu verwenden wir von Thierry Geoffroy geschaffene Kunst-Formate, sogenannte „Emergency Art“, mit denen wir auf das Publikum zugehen, um es in einen performativen Prozess einzubinden.
Die Veranstaltung wird in englischer und deutscher Sprache stattfinden.
The performance lecture by the artist Thierry Geoffroy and art theorist Sebastian Baden follows a precarious hypothesis. We will deal with the aesthetics of Manifestations on the one hand, but on the other hand we are going to show the appropriation of protest-movements in the arts. A political demonstration wants to be taken serious and not understood as an artsy gesture. For artists that represent political issues in their work, this does not mean, however, to lose political or social relevance. In fact, there still seems to be an unsolvable dilemma between autonomy and self-empowerment for political art, especially in the era of Post-Avantgardism. We will try to make a joint attempt by proposing a „mode d’emploi“ that introduces protest as artistic practice, and relocate contemporary art in the „speech act theory“, which means to insist on its socio-political effect. Therefor we will perform Art Formats by Thierry Geoffroy, so called „Emergency Art“, to approach the audience and get the public involved in a performative process.
Bios.
Thierry Geoffroy/Colonel is an artist who creates and develop formats with the desire to train the AWARENESS MUSCLE. His most known formats are Emergency Room, Biennalist , Critical Run, Debate Rave etc … His art formats can include hundreds of participants . The artist is now preparing a Biennale of ULTRACONTEMPORARY ART in Copenhagen. His formats have been activated in different institutions
like MOMA/PS1 New York , Moderna Museet Stockholm, ZKM/ Karlsruhe, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Pan Napoli and biennales like Venice Biennale, Manifesta. Thierry Geoffroy has also been working with questioning exhibition space like TV or social media. He is now working on an educational project : THE ACADEMY OF EMERGENCY ART. www.colonel.dk / http://www.emergencyrooms.org/formats.html
Sebastian Baden, is an artist, art historian and art critic based in Karlsruhe (D). Since 2010 he is working as research assistent of Prof. Dr. Beat Wyss at the University of Art and Design, Karlsruhe (Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe) and teaches at the Departmant of Art History and Media Theory. He received his PhD in 2014 with a research project on „The Image of Terrorism in the Art System“ (German title: „Das Image des Terrorismus im Kunstsystem“). In 2013, he was awarded the AICA Incentive Prize for Young Art Critics. His fields of research include Political Iconology, Art Market and Artvertisement Studies, Musealization and Art-Education, and Terrorlogy. He is member of the board of Netzwerk-Terrorismusforschung e.V. and has been curating exhibitions with Ferenbalm-Gurbrü Station Gallery/ Karlsruhe since 2006.