What might enable artists to present their work to a wider audience and discuss it critically, but avoid loss of their own current attitude in the same course? This is, in short, the main focus of the joint project of Theresa Eipeldauer, Julie Mueller and Annika Lorenz. It aims for a closer connection of art with theory-based discussion and for new, more lasting methods of presentation and communi
cation. First of all, the classical exhibition setting is reduced to an absolute minimum, as their concept allows the display of only one work per artist at a time. But in sharp contrast to this narrow limitation, there is all the more room provided for the representation of the artists´ considerations and their subjective viewpoints, which are featured in the form of interviews and made publicly accessible through an internet blog, together with related photo and video documentations. Apart from this, the special character and value of the documentation collected this way during the project will become even more evident after its end, as the information contained is not only designed to picture the temporary and static situation of another exhibition, conserved and provided to the audience in frozen form. In contrast to that, here the interest is directed much more at the creation process behind the exhibited works and at the considerations of the artist, which in consequence are prominently communicated to the audience. During the period of half a year, twelve different artists will be featured in a series of exhibitions. Each time two of them are put in juxtaposition by display of one single work per artist which is particularly representative for the momentary position of the artist. In order to enhance the sustainability of the results, the entire series will be repeated afterwards for a second time, so the same artists will meet each other again in the other half of the same year. Through this procedure, the project initiators hope to intensify the visibility of developments, processes and individual interests as well as the related communication between artists, the works and the audience. By integrating the views of other scientific fields, again in the form of interviews and discussions, the scope of this dialogue will be further expanded and given additional perspectives. The expected benefit from this approach is, in particular, an improved understanding of the relationship between the work of artists and the multitude of external influences this work is subjected to. As a final result of the project, a publication will be released which will not only include a complete documentation of the exhibited works of art and the biographies of the featured artists, but, due to the combination of this with the documented interviews and talks, it will also form a lively mirror of the wide diversity that can be found amongst the artists´ individual positions .
