next code: crossing | Method & Process
By Mirjana Selakov

Method

The project assumes that the nature of the art does not lie in a meaning of the finished work, but in the interaction, to which this „work of art "bring us to. Instead of the "traditional "aesthetics, which depends of benefit and joy of the recipient, here we arise a new type of aesthetics.

One can call it „interface "between various communication systems, which is being formed by various „experiences "(like aesthetic or social). The topic „time "will be investigated and researched from artists in Austria and Turkey, in very different social and cultural areas. Thereby the artists aim concretely not on the potential creativity of the individual recipients, but more on its readiness to communication. It is more about the art of the process, whose dynamics are dependent on the local situation at the each side. The project understand the time as a cultural and social phenomenon -equally as code and discourse -, tries to understand these through practice of process and personal experience.

Process

The exhibition „What’s the time, please?" will offer different artistic methods, who approach in different way the topic „time ". The artists from Austria and Turkey are invited to spend some time in the "other" country (country of "the others") and to come closer to the "time" topic as a „foreigner ": Austrian artists in Turkey (Istanbul) and Turkish artists in Austria (Viena, Graz).

Since the recent time model is called „simultaneousness ", also the artists will be in the same period at different places, some in Austria, others in Turkey. The project exists in two parts: the „active "one, as a research and the „static "one, as an intermediate result, or a "between" state in form of the exhibition. In addition, some more project parts are planned for the town Gleisdorf, what already began in form of the investigations, talks which are related direct or rather indirect to the main subject:

Why Istanbul/Vienna?

Istanbul is a typical place of the extensive cultural mixture, where this is accepted. The Turkish metropolis is indifferent to the east or the west. It is only Istanbul, is the bridge, it is not to be confound with any other city in the world.

Vienna is an intersection between what was divided after the Second World War into „the east and the west ". Nowadays Vienna is at the threshold between the "old" Europe and the "new" Europe of the E.G. It connects thereby these two worlds, like a bridge.

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