PAST EXHIBITION

Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft

April 10, 2008—June 15, 2008

At Mejan Labs, the Centre of Attention provides a remix of 'Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft' (Duesseldorf 2007). The work brings together a number of wabi-sabi strands and foregrounds aspects of our practice in which all that art tries to make invisible we transform into art. From the outset visitors can make changes to the work by adding, moving, editing and recombining elements, etc.

Gemeinschaft: family (kinship group) tribe - unity of will
Gesellschaft: self interest, civil society, contract - sacrifice of will

The open source nature of this work allows visitors to make artistic judgements and statements and to suggest challenges to our artistic and curatorial tropes. Further it allows us to attempt two specific things: a dematerialisation of the audience and an ever evolving/open ended installation. Questions raised by this piece include whether the group thwarts the intention of the artist; or does a collective response add to the artist's intention?

Nothing lasts, nothing is finished and nothing is perfect. The unstableness of the piece underpins the instability of definitions, of human interaction, of the work's existence and meaning. The individual is an unstable subject but the subject as object can not avoid an increased entropic fate.

More info: http://www.thecentreofattention.org/exhibitions/centre.html

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