Archive: There Was A Job To Be Done And Everybody Was Sure Somebody Would Do It
FRI. 20 May, 19.00 opening, performance bar
SAT. 21 May, 14.00 – 18.00 video screenings, bar
MON. 23 May, 19.00 – 22.00 publication presentation and concert
In addition the exhibition is open on MON. 23 May and TUE. 24 May 2011 from 11.00 to 19.00.
Artists: Sasha Auerbakh, Cäcilia Brown, Amy Croft, Karoline Dausien, Gabi Edlbauer, Christian Fladung, Paul Gasser, Christina Gillinger, Julia Hohenwarter, Hannah-Lisa Kunyik, Kris Lemsalu, Luiza Margan, Martin Martinsen, Eunjung Min, Stephanie Misa, Thea Möller, Robert Müller, Aki Namba, Liesl Raff, Miriam Raggam, Rudi Rapf, Nora Rekade, Jasmin Schienegger, Markus Taxacher, Attila Tornyi, Michael Vaccaro, Markus von Platen, Astrid Wagner, Helena Wallberg
From 20 May to 24 May 2011 the Kunstraum Niederoesterreich is accessible only through the back door. The class for performative art and sculpture of the Vienna Academy of Fine Art creeps up on the institution from behind to realise a several-day exhibition experiment there. The resulting project, “There Was A Job To Be Done And Everybody Was Sure Somebody Would Do It” uses a brief period between two regular exhibitions in the institutional programme.
Collective and solo works that attempt to break out of and to address such questions were developed from a several-month workshop with students on artistic working methods (e.g. hybrid formats, media, interests, needs, abilities and identities of students), on the practice of art institutions and on the habitual patterns that define the space, context and profile of an institution (e.g. local, spatial, temporal and content features).
As a platform, the Kunstraum Niederoesterreich offers a materialised setting for these explorations, which are generated through the process of brainstorming, possible forms of exhibiting, group experience, communication and exchange. Installations, film presentations, print concepts and performances – up to the productivity of absence – are mixed, shifted into one another and broken, in order thus to produce diagram of a group exhibition that is situation- rather than venue-specific.
Class for performative art and sculpture, Prof. M. Bonvicini, Stefanie Seibold and Diana Baldon
