PLATFORM3 2012 : SEE (TO) IT - A QUEST FOR ARTISTIC PRACTICES TO INCLUDE THE VIEWER
January 01, 2012 to December 31, 2012
In all our 2012 projects, PLATFORM3 attempts to break apart the widespread theory of the passive spectator – not through preprogrammed participation, but rather through various strategies of making public the genesis of a project. In this way the audience is no longer an unpredictable variable appearing at the conclusion of the artistic production process, but an integrative component of every artistic project – whether exhibition, performance or lecture series.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCY -PRESENTATION: JUAN DUQUE "MEDIATION"
January 26, 2012 to February 18, 2012
opening: January, 25th, 2012, 7 p.m
PLATFORM3 presents Juan Duque's first solo exhibition in Germany. During his two-month residency in Munich, the artist conceived a series of site-specific works with perishable, fleeting materials: paper, photography and video. He subverts the conventional urban reality of the periphery and examines it for natural phenomena, like wind, rain or vegetation which create fractures in urban areas and their stringently organized infrastructure. Juan Duque selected a conveying position in a process which is constantly redefining the borders between “inside” and “outside”, “natural” and “urban”, as well as “nomadism” and “identity”.
Juan Duque lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. His residency in Munich is the result of a cooperation between the Belgian artist-studio-programme Nucleo and PLATFORM3.
Kindly supported by Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München.
A PUBLIC MOMENT. ARTISTIC SURVEY, WORKSHOP AND EXHIBITION
March 24, 2012 to April 28, 2012
“What does understanding a work of art mean? Let us assume that artwork cannot be reduced to an object, but rather it encompasses artistic practices and gestures the artist has conceived specifically for it, explicit, repeating actions, ethical views, political decisions and economic considerations – in this project we understand all of this as the “life form” of an artwork – its entirely unique ecosystem. Until now, nobody has really been able to represent this ecosystem. Perhaps it is now up to the artists themselves to find appropriate forms of representation, that is with the help of tools and methods they have defined themselves?”
For our 3rd anniversary the international artist Franck Leibovici (*1975, France) has initiated a questionnaire among the artists who work at PLATFORM3. In an open form, through workshops and discussions, individual practices are being reflected on, collected and made accessible for the public in an artistic way. For F. Leibovici the foundation of the project is an expanded concept of the term artwork, which opens the context of artistic works and contributes to the spectators’ understanding of them.