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Anna Kubelik
Dictum of Nature
The iteration installation Dictum of Nature by Anna Kubelik is based on a study by Nina Arkani-Hamed and Jaroslav Trnka on the »amplituhedron«, a highly dimensional geometrical structure in quantum field theories which helps to determine the collusion of particles (see Wikipedia). Kubelik took »The Invertible Cube« by Paul Schatz as geometrical basis and starting point. If you consider the proceedings in nature as intertwined, mathematical and physical processes, the smallest dimension of our world complies with a strict geometry.
Anna Kubelík collaborates with partners from diverse fields and disciplines within the arts and sciences, such as dancers, composers, theatre directors as well as scientists and most recently with people from educational, scientific and cultural organisations. Hence, it is inherent to her work to range in scale, material and context, however there is always a performative element to be found in her practice.
Parallel to the exhibition at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Anna Kubelik exhibits a room-sized installation at Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, which is moved by dancers. A smaller version of the installation is presented at Solitude through the solo work of one performer, completed by notations on the wall, which illustrate these movements.
The performance is a collaboration with Akemi Nagao (choreography) and Michael Tuttle (sound).
The exhibition at Galerie Michael Sturm will be opened on September 15, 2017 at 7 pm and will be on view until November 18, 2017.
Astrid Schult
The Last Traces
They are not here anymore but are still with us. They left us but are still part of our lifes. They are the missing, the deceased, the dead. And even if we are still alive, one day we will join them. When it comes to this all humans are equal: we are mortal beings and guests with a limited time.
Astrid Schult tells the stories of the deceased to track down their traces from a subjective point of view. As a filmmaker she forms the image of the deceased person through her own perception. What constitutes a person? Other people's perception? The person's own evaluation or the technical facts, measured in numbers, dates and amounts? How much has one eaten? How much waste has one produced? How much money has one earned? How many children has one had?
Astrid Schult's web diary about a journey to the gravesites of her grandfathers will be part of The Last Traces.
Xinjun Zhang
Mine
Chinese artist Xinjun Zhang selects and uses materials based on the experiences of his everyday life. This can be thread, a primary school desk, a drawer, a sleeping bag, canvas – or like in Mine – clay, coal and ink. Since 2012, he has been focusing on the importance of the spatial conditions for the production of his work. His clay or so called »earthbody« works are the three-dimensional imprints of this own body, created by the »negative« spaces of the body between single body parts, like the space of the armpit or the space between fingers when they clasp a hand. The resultant objects look like antique and mysterious fossils.
The Secret Corner
Parts of the art project The Secret Corner (1987–1993) by Johannes Cladders (1924–2009), the first jury chairman of Akademie Schloss Solitude will be presented for the first (and last!) time from September 14 to October 29, 2017. The Secret Corner has been created for the French Académie de Muséologie Evocatoire and has been part of Akademie Schloss Solitude's archive since 2016. From September 14, the portal The Secret Corner www.thesecretcorner.net will be online! A project by Antoni Rayzhekov and Jean-Baptiste Joly with Hagen Betzwieser (Camera Interviews) following an idea by Jacques Caumont.
Free admission!