On Use Value of Art
15. - 25. April 2010
Opening of the exhibition: 15th of April 2010 at 6pm
Curatorial talk and discussion: 16th of April 2010 at 4pm
Participants: Rena
Rädle and Vladan
Jeremic
Moderator: Andreas Hansen Schille
The exhibition under the title "On Use Value of Art" presents
five positions of an artistic practice that comes to the breaking point with
what is generally seen as art in its neoliberal contemporaneity. Exhibited
works emerged as a result of collaborations that Ivan Basso, André Raatzsch,
Sibylle Hofter, Rädle&Jeremic and Stephan Kurr have
done together with other artists, young people and children from Serbia,
France and Germany. The authors have developed specific artistic approaches
to articulate and examine problems and experiences in the lived world of
the participants, expending everyday life into the experimental space of
art.
Ivan Basso worked with unaccompanied minors living on
the streets of Paris and made photos and a video that questions the ethics
of child protection, André Raatzsch and Emese
Benkö developed a sound sculpture with youth in Berlin, a
fictional Roma female superhero. Artist from Berlin, Sibylle Hofter has
worked in Serbia, Leskovac to realize staged photo-portraits. Rena
Rädle, and Vladan Jeremic with Saša
Barbul, Sali Kadrijaj and Muha Blackstazy,
have made a movie about the destiny of the dislocated inhabitants of the
Roma settlement near the Gazela bridge in Belgrade. Stephan Kurr shows
a two channel video installation about role models for men and it's contradictions.
The question about the use-value of art researches the relation between
the producers and the recipients of art, roles that in the case of the
presented works are not clearly defined. Visitors of the exhibition will
bring in one more position into a field that touches on one edge the arts,
on the other evolves into politics - permanently stressing the issue in
which way artistic and didactic practice can be combined in the context
of criticism of contemporary society.
Support: Trondheim kommune, Sør-Trøndelagfylkeskommune
and Norsk kulturråd
Production: Babel and Biro za kulturu i komunikaciju Beograd
Collaborator: Manufacturing Today