location:
DNA Gallery
date:
Apr 16th - May 16th
material:
brown paper bags, fluorescent red gafferstape, white lime sand bricks, video projection, colored photo copies
photographer:
Ralph Grömmiger, Birgit Ramsauer

As Michel Foucault says Heterotopias exist within all institutions and systems.
An integration of living and working, even more any situation in life, is not possible anymore. Therefore, our daily rhythm is formed by constant movement. We move from and to locations and places, which are dedicated to a special use: heterotopien spaces. We go there for a special reason at a special time of the day: Bus stops, cars, restaurants, snack bars, offices, elevators, airplanes, parks, parking lots, playgrounds, museums, galeries, libraries. They all exist as independent systems and locations within our reality.
What makes these locations a part of our life, is the movement: they are passage stations.
In my art work I build installations and performances as Heterotopias in public space. Unlike in real life Heterotopias in my installations/performances have another status. They are displaced places.

These "art spaces in between" operate with movement in public space. They interupt, detour, create new flows of movement, sharpen, make visible etc. Chance is always a part of my heterotopian spaces. The forces from the outside become an integral part. They form and transform the heterotopian space as an acitve partner.
My Heteropias are assertions no final states. Only after a certain period of time they are finished. Materials and forms are taken from surrounding public space. They cut out their own realities from reality. They only exist for a certain period of time and do not occupy a space for a longer period of time. They create space for following Heterotopias.

A transcendence in the conflict with the real world evolves.

I watch the meeting of real world with my heterotopia during a certain period of time together with my collaborators like photographers, video artists and writers. Their documentation evolves in a dialog with my work. The documentation is a very important part of my heterotopia.

The DNA gallery will be on different levels for a month a heterotopian space for a spacial cut-out with brown paper bags, taped with fluorescent gafferstape, iris prints and a life performance together with the visitors of DNA Gallery.