Saturday

16:00Meeting at Lene Voigt Parkrepeating our common threads.
i am supposed to provide impulses to guide you through the art, but it seems to me that a large part of today's work is very intimate and very quiet.after we marveled at the city center on Thursday and yesterday tried to reflect sensually and physically with the help of art, something completely different is happening today. yesterday we said: not i think therefore i am, but i act therefore i am. in the collective. the mutual storytelling.
today we are diving into the realities of the different artists. away from the collective, towards the individual. the personal perspective. look, my project, that's me.
yesterday we spoke about the fact that language is not enough to replace collective activity. the day before we thought about the fact that language is not enough to give sufficient form to fragility.Peter Weiss speaks of the depth in art, the infinite points that can be observed and that language does not know. we dive into these REALITIES. we have already learned what fragility is, we know the connections of art, our common thread. today it is about taking our knowledge and carrying it into the realities. fittingly, several artists will present their projects in person. if everything works out.so we turn our backs on political philosophy. rather, we turn to a Sartre. he seeks the concept of freedom in the individual, the meaning of life begins in the concept of freedom, of each person. my existence shows my opposite that freedom can exist. freedom is not a collective concept, but super individual through community. its feeling is fear, because freedom also radiates fragility.this is exactly what makes politics so difficult.
the other opinion is freedom. in an era where we make our REALITIES public, they become distorted. virtual reality. instagram. our online showroom must also reflect on the street what we pretend to be.
but is that still REALITY? or even freedom?
freedom... or reality!
we are looking for perspectives. for statements. maybe that was a bit too short in the last tours. we are no longer guided by an online-algorithm.Stay positive - donT get positive. distanced contact in a hopeful space16:00Lene Voigt Park
Caro OttoVITISOP why Lene-Voigt-Park? as space has become more and more public, and other nodes of social life have disappeared, people have been left with parks or supermarkets. (by the way, it is interesting that supermarkets or social games hardly play a role in the whole exhibition)
the LVP became "the place to be" during the corona period for the artist. when she felt like people, that is, when she wanted to see people around her, to run into familiar faces unplanned and to experience a bit of "distanced contact" coupled with inspiration. she made her often mantra-like walks there.the meaning of the word "positive". everywhere you hear the word positive.
is the test positive? are you "mentally" positive? also the slight pressure from society that you should stay positive thinking and just not test positive... why can't you be negative for once? the positive always includes the negative. hence the mantra-like repetition - to make the negative visible through the positive-inflation. at the same time it is still a wake-up call to stay positive-thinking and hopeful.
funnily enough, i met the artist not 50 meters from here in Lene-Voigt-Park.16:35Th.-Neubauer-Str. 52
Verónica García1 KM a video projection shown at night on the windows of the artist's apartment.
a series of video loops with flowers that the artist discovered in the spring of 2020 in the streets, parks and gardens of her neighborhood. with the closure of stores and jobs, without friends and family, walks have taken on a new meaning.the artist says: "This collection of images is reminiscent of the creation of a microcosm in which one temporarily resides - either because the quarantine is over or because the flowers are wilting at the end of their spring cycle."
as it is currently too bright
you cannot see the projection
the artist shows us instead the plants and their neighborhood through a plant walk in the summer in memory of springphotographs.
photographs are timestamps of a personal process during the shutdown.17:30Anderer Kunstverein e.V.
Helga HagenFRÜHLING2020 – 1-8 they show an object. the symbol of the crisis = the mask. omnipresence, in all vividness the two portraits she shows are family members very close to her. for many people, "NOT TOUCHING" has been more brutal than the illness itself.mask is actually of latin origin: it means something black
or a demon.
thus something evil, dark, demonic.
what darkens our face, covers it, makes it disappear.
its previous meaning is actually not part of a hygiene concept, but rather as part of something to be removed, something alien. one could almost say that masks are something unnatural.
the production of masks doesn't really interest us either, or does it?the artists of the work18:00Laura Därr & Lennard Bernd BeckerTELL US SOMETHING WE DON`T KNOW. wish to ask the following questions, as a preamble:
"what are you most intimate thoughts during the
last few months?” or “what is something you'd never discuss, something that is so secret that you can’t say it?” and “what does the concept and feeling of the word trust mean to you?" the concept of trust raises the question: is there an original trust?their work is based on the question of trust, on
assertion and illusion and the question of what remains.
simply put: they asked their classmates
to anonymously disclose their most intimate things or thoughts and engrave them on a metal plate. these metal plates, with their engraved intimate fragments,were then put into an envelope and sealed. these envelopes were collected in a metal box. the procedure had the atmosphere of an election situation.
the box was locked, sealed for good and buried
in a unnamed place.in order to preserve them over the centuries, online use was foregone. the internet forgets nothing, they say, but does it get everything? is there such a thing as trust on the internet? if, according to Martin Hartmann, there is basic trust, primitive trust and global trust? Yes?the existential question, then, is whether corona has damaged our trust.
we don't trust the internet. why? are there simply no real (trust) agreements there yet? it still seems to be a lawless space.
and yet a large part of our existence is and has been online. what does that do to our reality and the trust in our society?
the two artists take a stand against this. in a shrink-wrapped lead box, they safely store the intimate details of their fellow students. they trust each other, as individuals. they protect in unstable times. a "time capsule" in a time that seems to float.
can there be any naturalness in the digital world at all? sentences like "we grow our followers naturally" are actually an extended finger in the face of everything we've said in recent days about the state of nature and the human condition.science is truth, feelings are not? perhaps that is a lesson we should take away from the last 5 years of debate that has become public again since the arrival of the first Syrian refugees in Germany. it has been there for years, but is only now coming to light. and once again we come to the point of asking what is knowledge? truth or freedom?18:35Helga Hagen & Caro OttoDas Japanische Haus e. V.
C-ECHO C-Echo is an audio-installation that emerged from a collection of words regarding the corona crisis and evolved from there:
one phenomenon of the corona crisis is the confusion of voices. people are confused about what to believe, people change their minds depending on the news,
truths are bound to science, alternative thought models are conspiracies. society divides into camps, everyone is impacted, many share their feelings and thoughts about it. isn't this freedom?the artist Caro Otto already showed her ribbon with the inscription "positiv". i have asked all of you until this point to think about knowledge. just now the answer is incredibly positivistic: it is about empirical numbers: if they exceed a limit, this has enormous legal and also political consequences. libertarian. we live in a kind of positivism regime. is this exhibition an act of rebellion? art as resistance? (Peter Weiss?) or a reconquest of the public, as the Leipziger Volkszeitung dubbed us yesterday? or is it a turning inwards, because trust is gone. lost, speculated on the internet market?
today's tour was an application of everything we have discussed over the last two days.we have walked for three days in a row: we have reflected and observed.
we worked through fragility and agility. we saw fragility as a process of fear and power that expresses itself agilely through demonstrations.
we let Hobbes' Leviathan and Latour's Gaia confront each other. we experienced the emerging Black Lives Matter movement between the black angel and the memorial stone for Kamal K. in the footsteps of the Leipzig Monday Walks.
we looked at action as a collective process. we made decisions in the veil of not-knowing, going through the portal of not-forgetting. and we realized in the end that we are in limbo. the climate is tipping, the social cohesion is tipping, the health system is tipping (not only since corona). our feelings are wobbling, our language is wobbling. the river is wobbling. we can't wait for the next world war to unite society again. we have seen that too. we have let ourselves drift in the flow of time.
we have immersed ourselves in realities and have had to realize that even the concept of positive has to be positively connoted again. completely ignored. if anything has become more visible than ever through corona, it is that trust is missing. the utopians and do-gooders, moralists and the ultra correct - indeed liberalism itself - have not yet found an answer to this. where can a collective find trust?
all the work, making, acting. all the walls and borders, all the fears should generate trust, but they don't. but at least the question stands at the end of these three days: how is the connections between FREEDOM and TRUST?

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