From Leipzig the crucial impulses proceeded with the “Monday-demonstrations”, which led to the collapse of the GDR. This occurred initially at large emotional expenditure while the consequences for the social subranges and individual fates were not reflected on first hand. Regards one this process purely abstractly – independently of places, names and concrete state-theoretical models – a social system was replaced by another, by substituting a normative rule system with another. Structurally seen, contents changed, the dependency of social regulation systems on clearly defined power structures with its complex strategies and function mechanisms remained however unaffected of it.
With the exhibition “power” an attempt is undertaken to bring up for discussion these “system-independent” factors in different ways. With Angela Bulloch, Kendell Geers, Gregory Green and Fabrice Gygi artists were invited, who reflect in their works on an abstract and/or metaphorical level the mechanisms of power, aesthetics of the authoritarian, subversive forces, social behavior yardsticks or collective regulation systems. Similarly as the term “power” has different levels of meaning, are with the individual positions different associative perspectives represented. Artists develop new space-accessing installations and performative projects.
Catalogue:
›Power‹ Angela Bulloch, Kendell Geers, Gregory Green, Fabrice Gygi
mit Textbeiträgen/with texts by Liam Gillick, Gregory Green, Tim Staffel, Klaus Werner, Jan Winkelmann. Ausstellung: 18.04.–06.06.1999, Hrsg.: Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, 1999 (de/en); Preis: 6.00€
Edition:
Bulloch, Angela: of man given to woman by the inspiration of I, Prince Buster. 1999
Offsetdruck
Format: 84 x 59 cm
Auflage: 80
(ohne Rahmen)
Preis: 60.00€
