The
title Zur Grund- und Bodenlosigkeit
der Kunst (On the Groundlessness and Bottomlessness of Art)
refers first and foremost to a number of characterizations of modern
art, assigned both from the outside and from within. Perhaps
groundlessness/bottomlessness are even a characteristic attribute of
modern art, between scandal and nihilism, different modes of
constructivism and negative critique, universalist projects and
experiments with the laws of visual perception. As far as
contemporary art is concerned, however, other associations present
themselves. Is it not an attribute of contemporary art to pull the
ground out from under everyday perceptions in the sense of an
ontological destabilization? Doesn’t contemporary art constantly
have to subvert traditional, normative concepts of reality in order
to open up the grounds of reality construction and representation for
experimentation?
Anselm
Franke is a curator and writer based in Berlin. He is Head of
Visual Art and Film at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, where he
co-curated The
Anthropocene Project (2013–2014),
and several exhibitions including Ape
Culture
(2015) and Nervous
Systems (2016).
Anselm
Franke, Zur Grund- und Bodenlosigkeit der Kunst
Tuesday,
6 December 2016, 6 pm
Kunstakademie
Münster, Hörsaal 1
