Stephan Dillemuth
Corporate Rococo
Sat, 27 May 2017, 3 pm
The civil project is coming to an end and with it enlightenment ideals such as democracy and the public sphere: we are living in a Corporate Rococo. Does art appoint the jesters within it all, does it form the tip of the creative industry’s armed forces or create tranquil habitats within the recesses?
For Stephan Dillemuth’s (*1954, Germany) Site Visit the Kunstverein will become an academy. An artist speaks about artistic research and a goat is sketched, it is the model and left in peace it eats and walks about. Perhaps it does not understand what is being said and is also not bothered by it.
Dillemuth questions the societal role and political potential of artistic works. Long before big-data analytics, Dillemuth tackled issues surrounding technological and societal surveillance, the exploitation of privacy, and the privatisation of the public sphere. He sets our economised society of control against the artistic practice of bohemian research. This type of subjective, improvised research is inquisitive, it has no fixed expectations and is unpredictable. It defies its framework, is self-organised and collaborative. Dillemuth describes it as “self-imposed research, research within life, into life and through life.”
Please bring pencils and paper for nude drawing.