Meine Anfang des Jahres abgesagte Ausstellung „Semifunktional“ findet jetzt am Donnerstag, den 10. September im Salon Similde in der Simildenstraße 9 in Leipzig Connewitz. Hierzu möchte ich herzlich einladen.
Da der Raum sehr klein ist , müssen wir wohl hauptsächlich draußen rumhängen. Also bringt bitte Masken und entsprechende Kleidung mit.
It’s been close to a year now since I had the Night Shift show at Simon Oldfield Gallery. Yesterday, I was surprised in a very very nice way by Rebecca Helen Page, who has filmed bits of the performance I’ve done there and uploaded them to Vimeo.
It was quite a noisy performance with very weird sound and I had very short hair at that time.
The desk I had my instruments on was absolutely gorgeous. It felt like my own private TARDIS.
Night Shift explores the relationship between painting, sculpture and performance with new work by Simon Schäfer and Katy Kirbach.
The exhibition examines the tension between the handmade and ready-made; multiplicity and uniqueness; live event and still object; the diurnal and nocturnal. Night Shift is visually and aurally layered with texture, sound, digital feeds, colour and analogue electronics.
To acquire knowhow is to gain the practical skills or intelligence necessary to get something specific done. This is tacit knowledge in the sense that it can be withheld and kept confidential. It may also be difficult to transfer without practical instruction and the required cognitive faculty in the beholder. In the artist this skill has traditionally revealed itself as craft.
Since the dawn of the Readymade, craft in Art has continually been brought into question, and as a result any preconception of a definitive Artistic Knowhow has been blurred or expanded to involve a myriad of scenarios or conditions.
Knowhow aims not necessarily to pin down a definition of the word but to ask the artists to delve into their own practice or maybe push themselves beyond their normal bounds of proficiency. This might manifest itself in a cathartic exploration of an unknown craft, an engagement with a ‚knowing‘ failure or even through the use of prosthetic labour which utilises the employment of non-artistic intervention.
KNOWHOW is a curatorial project by Ben Newton in collaboration with Campbell Works