Art – because it is Art – is and must be critical, it’s imperative. Therefore, there is no need to discuss the ‘critical potential of art’, and there never was. In being critical, art must turn against itself, if it doesn’t it has nothing to do with art,...
In doing my work in public space and furthermore, in doing works involving residence on location such as the upcoming “Gramsci Monument”, I am confronted with the question of ‘authorship’. Unshared Authorship Consequently I want to propose a new kind of authorship:...
Projects which I call “Presence and Production”-projects want to establish another topic than “Participation”. “Presence and Production” is my term. This new term wants to stand up beside terms as “Participative Art”,...
“ABSCHLAG” is the title, but also the form of my project at ‘Manifesta 10’, St. Petersburg. As a form, it means and shows that a part – an important part of its entirety – has been cut off, as for example, when facades of entire...
Question 1:I know that you were searching for a long time for an ideal location for your Gramsci Monument in New York. What made you finally decide on the Forest Houses in the Bronx? Answer 1:The decision to do the “Gramsci Monument” at ‘Forest...
