Expulsion 2009 40 volumes of Goethe's writings published in Germany 1943, ink, water, interactive wall construction, performative action, single channel video, sound composition, self-shot photography. Courtesy ConcentArt, Berlin.
Monika Weiss: Expulsion
Performance, January 9 at 7pm
Installation on view: January 10 - February 4, 2009
Part of the exhibition "Wa[h]re Kunst"
ConcentArt e.V.
Kreuzbergstr. 28
D-10965 Berlin
+49 (0)30 7007 16 45 www.concentart.org
Monika Weiss' "Expulsion" is a site-specific installation composed of open books placed on the ground [selected works by Goethe published in 1943], live performance, sound composition, video projection and an interactive wall [sensors, ink, system of pumps.]
From Wa[h]re Kunst exhibition Press Release:
In his essay on the exhibition, the art historian and philosopher Slavko Kacunko writes: "The exhibition provides a pleasantly pictorial yet also critical variation on a theme that will doubtless continue to engage our attention over the coming years. It does not attempt to bolster the constructability of perception and knowledge with a utilitarian anthropo-centralism, functionalism, or pragmatism. Instead; it takes a stand against the covertly idealistic attempt to disregard the economic and ecological foundations of ideal and material production and reproduction;" Kacunko also takes up the dialectic debate over art as a commodity versus the perfection of "true" art, but without taking issue with the notion of a consume-oriented society and its claim to veracity. "True art and art as a commodity appear linked to one another in a playful alliance full of serious intent, statement and significance and yet still negotiable and calculable, albeit only through the rear-view window." (S. Kacunko) The art association ConcentArt e.V. aims to encourage debate and discussion of the topics engendered through its exhibitions and their bearing on and relevance for social values and concomitant moral issues.
Curated by Georgi Begun.
Participating Artists: Georgi Begun (Germany), Barbara Caveng (Switzerland), Michel Couturier (Belgium), Heiko Daxl (Germany), Alexandra Dementieva (Belgium), Democracia (Spain), Chus Garcia-Fraile (Spain), Sabine Kacunko (Germany), Victor Kegli (Germany), Shahar Markus (Israel), Jung Me (Korea), Eugenio Merino (Spanien), PSJM (Spanien), A. Schulgin, A. Chernyshev (Russia), Monika Weiss (USA)
