Artistic Fields of Action (Handlungsfelder)
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With the spread of information and media technologies extensive
transformations in all operational systems of societies take place. How
do these technolgies as well as the principle of connection influence
the production, presentation and distribution of art? How does the
media intervene not as technological but as social, political and
cultural machine?
“Who’s doing the art of tomorrow?” (Ars Electronica 2001) - ‘How will it be done?’ - ‘What is doing the art of tomorrow?’
Historical References:
Joseph Beuys: 1967 foundation of the German Student party / Fluxus Zone
West / 1971 Foundation of the Organisation for Direct Democracy and
Plebiscite / 1972 Foundation of the Free International University (FIU)
/ since 1993 concrete interventions by WochenKlausur / 1998 Chance
2000, Christoph Schlingensief / 1999/2000 Toywar, etoy / since 2000
analogue-series#no.2k0023, GeheimRat / 2001 AVL-Ville, Atelier van
Lieshout / 2003 Nike Ground, 01.ORG / since 2005 Mission Eternity, etoy
Closed object based works of art and symbolic representations
transform to open and dynamic fields of action, “arenas of
activity”(Weibel), to happenings, projects and processes.
The artist subject rejects his claim of singular authorship in
favour of collective works based on multiple and plural forms of
authorship e.g. collectives, projects, alias or algorithm.
The closed white cube system will all its redundancies transforms to synergetic formats of convergency and to nonlinear models of implemantation.
Furthermore we refer to the “esthétique relationelle” by Nicolas Bourriaud (1995), the studies of Communication theory of David J. Krieger regarding art as explorational discourse (Erschliessungsdiskurs) and Andrea Fraser’s distinction between cultural production and artistic practise (1995).
The distant viewer and passive consumer transform to an involved participant, protagonist
and co-author, to an (inter-) active user or explorer.
Instead of representation art focusses on operational interventions in protocolls of social processes.