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A Preview of an Exhibition under Construction
13 September 2023, 18:00 (CET)
Online (via Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI)
Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen
Fiona Connor’s upcoming exhibition Drawing something under itself, which will open on 22 September at Kunstverein Düsseldorf, explores repetition, variance and exception through construction, drawing and letter forms.
Taking the tradition of institutional critique as a point of departure, the artist (born 1981 in Auckland/NZ, residing in Los Angeles) examines not only the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen as the institution that hosts the show but also the brutalist 1960’s architecture where it is housed and the materials and labor processes that built it. What is the difference between a mason who builds models from bricks and an artist who fabricates their work—or has it fabricated—with similar techniques, traditionally based on drawings? And in what way does the architecture shape an institution?
As part of her research for the exhibition, Fiona Connor consulted archives in Düsseldorf and Essen to learn about masonry training in the Rhein/Ruhr region in the 1950s and 1960s, when her father went to Essen and other European cities to study the labor conditions of construction workers. The conversation at KWI will address the significance of these historical findings, provide an insight into the exhibition’s preparation—an exhibition that will remain in process or under construction throughout its run—and delve into issues of art and labor, craft and traditional techniques, and the relation between the symbolic and the material in her work.
SPEAKER
Fiona Connor
Friederike Sigler, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Christian Berger, KWI Essen
PARTICIPATION
No registration is necessary and participation is free of charge.
To participate online via Zoom, please follow the link on the KWI website.
ORGANISER
An event organised by the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen
About the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI):
The Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Germany, is an interdisciplinary research centre following the tradition of international Institutes for Advanced Study. In its role as an inter-university institution connecting the Ruhr-University Bochum, the Technological University Dortmund and the University of Duisburg-Essen, the institute works together with researchers and scientists from its neighbouring universities as well as other partners from the federal state NRW and places in- and outside of Germany. Within the Ruhr area, the KWI is a place to share and discuss the questions and results of ambitious research with interested parties from the city and the greater region. Currently, work at the KWI focuses on the following areas: “cultural studies of science and science policy making”, “sociology of literature and culture”, “science communication”, “visual literacy” and a “teaching lab”. Projects in the established research field “culture of communication”, as well as individual projects, will be continued.
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https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltung/a-preview-of-an-exhibition-und... The Event on the KWI Website
"I haven't arrived yet"
Fiona Connor
"Drawing something under itself", Kunstverein für die Rheinlande & Westfalen, 2023, iPhone photo by Fiona Connor
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"I haven't arrived yet"
Fiona Connor
"Drawing something under itself", Kunstverein für die Rheinlande & Westfalen, 2023, iPhone photo by Fiona Connor
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