location:
Guelman Gallery
date:
Jul 16th - 31st
material:
Iris prints, yellow gaffers tape
Photographer:
Karin Desmarowitz

Guelman gallery is the biggest and most estabished gallery in Moscow, Marat Guelman the founder of the art fair Moscow. In the exhibition "Heterotopias" I will exhibit Irisprints of former performances fo mine from 1997 till today. As well I will connect in a sound installation the three cities I work the most intensiv at: Moscow, New York, Berlin. I install the sound of the Metro, The subway and U-Bahn. And there will be a live performance with the vistors of the opening to create a tape relief.

As Michel Foucault says Heterotopia exist within all institutions and systems. There is no more possible an intergration of living and working in our daily life. Every situation in life is affected. Therefore our daily rhythmn is formed by constant movement. We move fromand 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: Busstops, cars, restaurants, snack bars, offices, elevators, airplanes, parks, parkinglots, 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 transit stations.
Within my art work I built Installations and Performances as Heterotopias in public space. In the contrary to the allready existing Heterotopias my installations/performances have another status. They are displaced places.
These "art spaces in between" integrate the movement in public space. They interupt, detour, create new flowing movement, sharpen, make visible etc. The accicdent is allways a part of my heterotopian spaces. The forces from the outside become a part and form and transform it as an acitv partner.
My heteropias are assertions no final states. Only they are finished after a certain amount of time. Materials and forms are taken from public space. Within the existing reality they cut out their own reality. They only exist for a certain amount of time. They are not ... They make space for following heterotopias.

There is a transcendence in the conflict with the real world.

The meeting of the real world and my heterotopia I watch during a certain amount of time together with my collaborators like photographers, video artists and writer. Withing a dialog the documentation becomes true as a very important part of my heterotopia.

A "listen-cut-out" with noise from the Berlin U-Bahn, the New York Subway and the Metro Moscow
Iris Prints and
a life performance together with the visitors of Guelman Gallery
for two weeks the gallery will be on different level the location for a Heterotopia.

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