Round table discussions @ Kreuzberg Pavillon, Frankfurter Strasse 60,
34121 Kassel
Wednesday, the 5th of September, 20:00
Thursday, the 6th of September, 20:00
FoG is envisioned as an exploratory expedition of ascending to Kassel
beginning of September in order to register the creative topology of the
event (dOCUMENTA). Emerging artists from the Academy of Arts in Cologne
will cooperate with New York based artist Alicia Grulon, who brings into
the collaboration her project “Bringing the Bronx to Kassel”.
In a vast landscape of 150+ artworks participants are expected to
discover unequivocal specimens (of art), classify them in the periodic
context and extract key communicative elements based on trinary
structure of material axis (visual aesthetics), ideal axis (concept) and
semantic axis(referential, narrative). During the course of one week
young artists will assume roles of the merciless researchers unlocking
secrets of conceptual art with palpitating zeal, unfolding uncanny
structures and extrapolating ways of improvement (Verbesserung) of the
selected artworks. Students will deconstruct selected samples and then
reconstruct following a hypothetical “exaggeration of key mechanics”
principle.
Alicia’s project “Bringing the Bronx to Kassel” reflects her ongoing
investigations of social interaction. She will invite visitors to
participate in round table discussions to reconsider design solutions
for issues on specific environmental challenges people experience in
their everyday lives by using the Bronx as catalyst.
Expedition will commence itself with a round-table presentation of the
curious findings and will be happily exhausted with a full range of
celebratory strategies.
Participants:
Jan Goldfuß
Patrick Buhr
Sina Seifee
Maribel Chavez
Alicia Grulon (artist, New York)
Mindaugas Gapševičius (moderator, Berlin)
Alicia Grulon is drawn to situations and locations where power relations
and cultural pluralism are undergoing changes. Whether through
engagements of civic action or encounters through activity, her work
takes into account the use of space as a site of social construction
where issues of race, class, gender, and activism open. She creates
situations related to specific challenges in order to observe them and
see how they unfold.
Alicia holds MFA in Intermedia Art from State University of New York and
BFA in Drama from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She
exhibited in Andrew Freeman House, El Museo del Barrio, La Marqueta, &
Rush Gallery.
Thanks to Žilvinas Lilas, who engaged students in FoG and
Kreuzberg Pavillon Kassel
Migrating Art Academies, http://www.migaa.eu
Alicia Grulon, www.aliciagrullon.com
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