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Catherine Bagnall – Michael Höpfner – Danica Phelps
Die Ausstellung Walking Rhetorics versammelt drei KünstlerInnen,
die das zu Fuß gehen , als Basis ihrer künstlerischen
Position verstehen. Gehen, um sich eine individuelle Wahrnehmung
zu ermöglichen: als Performace , um sich abzureagieren : zur
inneren Reinigung, zur Konzentration, um zu flanieren, um zu erforschen
...
Diese Ausgangspunkte lassen völlig unterschiedliche Positionen
aus dem Akt des eigentlichen Vorübergehens entstehen; Gehen
nicht nur als geografische Aneignung, sondern auch als soziale,
anarchistische, einsame Erfahrung, die Stadträume wie Wildnis
und vor allem das Dazwischen berücksichtigt.
Der Titel verweist auf „Gehen in der Stadt“, einem
Text über die Möglichkeiten des Fußgängers
in der Stadt von Michel de Certeau. De Certeau, ein Anthropologe
und Historiker, widmet einen großen Teil seines Buches „Die
Kunst des Handelns“ (1980) den Aktivitäten der Fußgänger
und Passanten, die durch ihre Bewegung eine eigene Form des Ausdrucks
finden. Er spricht von einer dreifachen Funktion der Äußerung:
1. Der Prozess der Aneignung des topographischen Systems, 2. die
räumliche Realisierung des Ortes und 3. Die Beziehung zwischen
unterschiedlichen Positionen – Gehen als Raum der Äußerung.
CATHERINE
BAGNALL
born 1965 Wellington,NZ
In my work I am exploring the relationship between my being and
the landscape and ist representation. I am interested in the impossibility
of ever truley „being – in- nature“ and ways
of trying to transcent that sense.
The relationship between the New Zealand wilderness landscape,
clothing and my body is experienced through te process of being
in nature, dressed up, literally tramping through it. Clothing/fashion
is a central part of my project as it allows me to use different
performative personae. Clothing is a mediating tool in the experience
of being in the wilderness and plays a crucial role in the repesentation
of myself in the landscape.
The work is very much about excess. The photos and objects that
are the outcome from these walks, that I exhibit, are in excess
of the actual process of walking in the bush all dressed up.
Die ausgestellten Arbeiten entstanden während eines Studioaufenthalt
in Krems,NÖ, in Kooperation mit Julian Bishop.
recent solo shows: 200 Beauty,Michael Hischfeld public gallery,Wellington,NZ;1999
Drunken Dreams,Penthouse and Pavement gallery,Malbourne,Australia
recent group shows : 2002 Nine Dragon Heads International Art Symposium,South
Korea; Sleeping Lighty,Dowse Public Art Gallery Wellington,NZ;2001
Tent,The Waiting room, Wellington;Botanica,Adam Art Gallery,Wellington,NZ,Gus
Fische,Auckland,NZ
MICHAEL HÖPFNER
born 1972,Krems/Donau,Austria
walking/maps/memory
walking: travelling into landscape which refelct the temporal:
desert, mountains, glaciers, rocks, sand. Walking there for weeks
or months, trying to find a new perception of time and space.
maps: abstract models reflecting abstract patterns of the world.
To use maps means to transform them into personal maps, new plans
of organisation. New questions arrive: how far is it, where can
I put my tent, where is the trail...
memory: the use of black and white photography allows an individual
view of the landscape, a personal memory.I do not want to document
a walk, the pictures just stand for certain experiences. The photographic
options are limited by the weather and the features of the land,
this also means to accept those realities.
solo shows: 2002 alternative trail,Galerie Hubert Winter,Wien;2001
Unfinished Valley,Galerie Stadtpark Krems,Krems
recent groupshows: 2003 continue,Projektraum Beckmanngasse,Wien;
aus 9,Galerie Steinek,Wien;2002 Nine Dragon Heads International
Symposium,Seoul,South Korea; workshop table ronde,Dakar,Senegal;Monumental,
Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum,Innsbruck; current setting,Kunstverein
Hallein;2001 Rolling Stones Adorned With Starlight,Galerie Hubert
Winter;Sieben,Volpinum,Wien;2000 Museum in Progress,Transact;1999
Institut für Gegenwartskunst,Akademie der Bildenden Künste,Wien;Metronome
Magazin,Artikel mit Hamish Fulton; 1998 Pur Photography,Street
Level Gallery,Glasgow
DANICA PHEPLS
born 1971,New York, NY
I will be making a walking project in Vienna called Walking 9-5.
I will start each day in the center of the city, and walk for 8
hours in as straight a line as possible from the center out. I
will do this for 15 days, each day heading in a different direction.
I have made this project in NYC and Amsterdam. In NYC, I only reached
each edge of the city in 8 hours. In Amsterdam, I was in the countryside
in 2 hours,through another city in 5 hours, and to the ocean in
8 hours. Another day, I walked from Amsterdam to Utrecht in 8 hours.
It changes the conception of the size of the city when you know
how far you can walk in 8 hours. This project is an attempt to
translate time directly into space. In the US, many people work
8 hours a day, either in a factory or at a desk in front of a computer.
I wanted to see how far one could propell oneself in the most ancient,
unaided way, walking, in that same amount of time. The drawing
will also reflect how much money I spend during this project.
Selected solo shows: 2002 Walking 9-5,Annet Gelink Gallery,Amsterdam;Learning
as I Go, Galerie Schütte,Essen,Germany;Artist,Collector,Curator,Spy,LFL
Gallery,NY,NY; Buffalo, Buffalo Arts Studio,NY;2001 Walking 9-5,Krems
Austria,Trade Two,LFL Gallery New York,NY;2000 From Barcelona to
Krems, Galerie Stadtpark,Krems,Austria;2nd Generation, Herter Gallery:Umass
amherst,Mass.;Bill Trip,Project Room,Roberts&Tilton,LA,CA;
Walking:From LA to San Francisco,Michael Martin Gallery,San Francisco,CA;1998
Funny Money,Jack Tilton Gallery,NY
Selected group shows: 2002 Living Inside the Grid,New Museum
of Contemporary Art,NY;Bootled Identity,Caren Golden,NY;2001 Domestic
Culture,ICA at MECA Portland,ME;ICA at Palm Beach,FL;2000 Vida
Politica,Sala Montcada LA Caixa,Barcelona,Spain;1999 100 Drawings,PS1,NY |
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