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http://www.artimage.at
a cura di:
Charlotte Pöchhacker
Architecture is everything you think it is not
Since its foundation in 1993, the Graz Biennial on Media and Architecture
has followed the principle: "Architecture is everything you think
it is not". This research direction is equally valid for all architects
who deliberately direct their focus onto the forward-looking possibilities
of their medium and who perceive architecture in its comprehensive
cultural meaning.
a place for networking, discussion and reflection
Our key concern is the dialogue between art, architecture, society
and science. Our interest lies in pushing forward in several directions
at once in terms of Deleuze's position and thus opening up zones of
unpredictable connections between disciplines, by creating links between
different fields of work and traditions of thought. At the same time,
we take as a reference George Bataille's term "informé" (formless),
which he uses to define the attempt to broaden the meaning of terms
beyond the constraints of their original application.
The biennium as a new architecture
This year, on the occasion of our tenth anniversary, the sixth Graz
Biennial presents the rethinking of the biennial concept, which will
be notable for using the two-year period of the biennium productively
and publicly as a new event format in the future. From December 4th
to 14th 2003 within the context of the opening festival of the biennium,
we will be presenting the main theme "T.S.V.P. - Art and Architecture
in Dialogue". This theme is subdivided into three subject areas: "The
exhibition as a medium and experiment", "The archive project" and
"On territories". Over the course of the ten opening days, a total
of 116 fascinating papers and art projects will be presented by internationally
renowned architects, artists, filmmakers, literary figures and theoreticians.
Over the next two years of the biennium, from 2003 - 2005, these themes
will be continuously explored in greater depth with further exhibitions,
talks and publications.
T.S.V.P. - the leitmotif of the biennium
This
rethinking of the biennial concept, using the two-year period of the
biennium productively and publicly as a new events format, is also
an expression of the leitmotif of the 6th biennial : T.S.V. P. and
so should be seen as the expression of our interest in culture from
the perspective of the performative. The changes to the events format
indicate a shift in interest towards the activities of creation, production
and doing. Hence actions, exchange processes, changes, movements and
usage form the focus of debate. This shift in focus could be expressed
in the metaphor "culture as performance". It highlights the materiality,
mediality and interactive processability of cultural actions, which
refer equally to the relationship between artist, artwork and observer
and so in the figurative sense to architects, architectures and environments
and users. With reference to Francois Le Lionnais' experiment Tournez
S'il Vous Plait, conducted in 1962, in which he wrote the performance
"t" on both sides of a piece of paper, we have assigned the biennium
as a call for participation with T.S.V.P.
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