14.2. – 8.5.2016
Unruly Relations
Friendships are determined by their ambiguous nature. In the context of art, they form social frameworks, are theme of the artworks themselves, are an (un)productive factor of artistic work and a determining element for models of community authorship. At the same time as they are invested with romantic notions of a bond freed of purpose, the possibility of failure is always inherent; they are fractious, uncontrollable, hardly calculable from scratch. This essential ambiguity of friendship also determines the relationship between objects, materials and narratives that encounter each other in any group exhibition and that are, at best, engaged in a dialogue. Unruly relations are self-willed social constellations that play completely different roles in the works displayed. The group exhibition Unruly Relations addresses the ambivalent nature of friendship as a social construction but also as part of artistic practices. Invested with romantic notions, the concept of friendship is a much discussed social model of the present, a principle that is both co-opted economically as well as publicly. The exhibition is not based on any specific theories of friendship but instead poses questions: What are the productive and unproductive possibilities of failure and success that friendship or more general social constellations and communication provides? What is the relationship between friendship and authorship?
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(Events)
Saturday, February 13, 2016, 06.00 PM
Opening Unruly Relations
Performance Selina Grüter & Michèle Graf, Steitsek (Veit Laurent Kurz/Stefan Tcherepnin/Jan Vorisek)
Sunday, March 13, 2016, 02.00 PM
Art-Histories For Families And Adults with Iris Brugger
Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 02.00 PM
Art-Histories For Children with Iris Brugger
Friday, April 29, 2016, 07.00 PM
Selina Grüter & Michèle Graf, Cyber and Victory - An Incorporation for 5 Characters and Voice / Ramaya Tegegne, Version #18: Adrian Piper
Selina Grüter & Michèle Graf (born 1991 and 1987 in Zurich, live and work in Zurich) make their friendship or the wider community generated by it both the subject and material basis of their work. Their performance practice, ever reflective of the aspect of performing, is based on the involvement of individuals from their immediate surroundings and examines the role of the individual within different communities and relationships. On Friday evening the second part of their performance, which was concipated for the exhbition, will be shown at the Kunsthaus Glarus. The resulting subjective video documentation by Ramaya Tegegne will subsequently be shown as part of their installation until the end of the exhibition. Cyber and Victory - An Incorporation for 5 Characters and Voice is performed by Niria Frey, Michèle Graf, Selina Grüter, Daniel Keller and Elena Nyffeler.
Ramaya Tegegne (born 1985 in Geneva, lives and works in Geneva) explores the intangible factors of art production in her work often based on text and art historical references. She examines, for instance, the function of gossip and the role of friendships in artistic networks. With Version #18: Adrian Piper (2016) Ramaya Tegegne continues her series of bootlegs of performances by other artists. It is based on the documentation Shiva Dances with the Art Institute of Chicago (2004) of a lecture by Adrian Piper. For her it is imperative that our opinions, discourses, and analyses be refined, many-sided and subtle. She thus invites us to experience the complexity and particularity of any one thing, any one person, any one experience through bodily sensations.
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Sunday, May 8, 2016, 03.30 PM
Closing: Jan Vorisek, In Terrace, Performance
In Terrace, 40 mins.