Shortstorys on the Heide
Excerpt from the
concept
Elke Suhr
The title is a
synthesis
of fragments of ideas, derived from a serious of lectures in the
Deutschen
Schauspielhaus, Hamburg 2000.
As reaction to the
millennium
changeover a view into the future was tried and a reaction was offered
to the so-called end of the grossen erzaehlungen (famous
stories).
This again was derived from the end of socialism and the possibility
connected
with that, the so-called 'different' suspected in the other system
each.
One thesis was that
in the
public consciousness now only small pragmatic lectures are asked for,
which
function in short term. On the other hand reduction of ability to
form symbols was mourned.
Shortstories on the Heide
sets off from a shortterm attention, takes for granted the focussing
view
of the car driver, who can only watch in the 3 seconds at the traffic
light.
With Heide
is meant a place outside a fictional border, there where everything is
still possible, there where it is also dangerous because the known
ruled
do not apply there. So-to-say the place of art. The question is where
is
this place and how does the border reveal itself.
When there is no
collective
all common border any longer, but small networks of agreements wind
around
one another, then we cannot speak of a public problem in which art
could
interfere, respectively this border also would be a private one,
respectively
agreement immanent invention, result of shortterm will and thinking.
Shortstories
on the Heide
wants to start off
from
this feeling of time
Claudia Hoffmann, without title,
2001
concrete, wood,
color, iron
sheet-metal
Sonja Jakuschewa, love
letters, 2001
hommage à
Rainer
M. Rilke,
130 x 93 cm,
Acryl
/ Lw.
Foto: S.
Jakuschewa
Llaura I. Sünner, axes,
2001
concealed plywood
sheets
Elke Suhr, like mad, from the
serious
habit, 2000
installation
computer print on
white
material, altered wooden table on pedestal,
enery saving bulb
Osram
(Beginning of the
comprehensive)
Talk of professor em. Jan Vogeler
to
the end of
the utopia of the sowjet
socialism
2. 07. 2001
in
EINSTELLUNGSRAUM
Hamburg
at the occasion of
the exhibition
'Shortstorys on
the Heide'
tape copy Elke Suhr
(C) Prof. em. J.
Vogeler
'Directly in
front of me
is a picture of my father exhibitet, over there on the wall. It shows
the
Kreml 1923, which my father drove into 1923 with his 2. wife, my
mother. There I was born, in this house on the left. This picture could
stand somewhat as an example for works with which Heinrich Vogeler
wanted
to also demonstrate to other people outside the revolutionary movement
the beginning of the Sovjetunion after the revolution of 1917, and by
that
also his own vision, that through this new political structure a new
society
will be established there.
Shortly
after,1925, my parents
returned to germany and until Hitler came we were in Berlin. And then I
came to Moscow with my parents and ever since have become a witness of
time of the very difficult and complicated, contradictive
development
in the Sowjetunion...'
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