SEARCHING THE NET FOR UTOPIE

Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen

Searching the Net for Utopie

Installation
(1000 printed booklets, cardboard boxes, shelf)

In Searching the net for utopie geht Paul Divjak möglichen virtuellen Manifestationen des – auch im Internet inflationär gebrauchten – Begriffs “Utopie” nach. Was er in seiner Arbeit zusammengestellt hat, spiegelt Ausschnitte aktueller gesellschaftspolitischer Diskussionen zum Thema wider, zugänglich gemacht als vielfach duplizierter Reader.

“Utopien heute? Kunst zwischen Vision und Alltag”
Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, 11.11.2001-24.2002

Curated by: Theresa Kiefer

Participating Artists: Sonja Braas / Christina Kubisch / Wolfgang Laib Mariele Neudecker / Kazuo Katase / Jake & Dinos Chapman / Rosemarie Trockel / Bjørn Melhus / Lim Young Sun / Chris Cunningham / Bigert & Bergström / N 55 / Atelier van Lieshout Allan Wexler / Tobias Rehberger/ Kreissl & Kerber / Thomas Wrede / Paul Divjak / ipfo / Michael Elsen / Vincent Prud’homme / Nicolas Moulin / Zaha Hadid

Katalog: Gassen, Richard W., Kiefer, Theresia (Hg.): “Utopien heute? : Kunst zwischen Vision und Alltag”. Heidelberg : Ed. Braus. 2001.ISBN: 389904004x (EAN: 9783899040043 / 978-3899040043)


Prague Quadrennial

Intersection: Intimacy & Spectacle

PQ - Intersection ©Paul DivjakPRAGUE, JUNE 16-26, 2011

Piazzeta of the National Theatre at Narodni Trida 2, Prague 1 At Piazzetta between the National Theatre and New Stage Theatre (ex-Laterna Magika) you could find a dwelling of thirty white cubes/black boxes. This architectural maze was inhabited by performative projects by scenographers, performers, choreographers, film directors, drama theatre, installation artists, fashion designers, writers, painters…

This live exhibition talked to you only if you talked back to it. This living and breathing exhibition told you stories, and the more time you spent there the more it spoke to you. It tought you to dance, and asked you to listen. It required positioning and it let you get lost. If you were afraid of intimacy – you better wouldn’t have entered.

Prague Quadrennial – Intersection
Curated by: Sodja Lotker

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Nathaniel Mellors // Ana Borralho & João Galante // Markus Schinwald // mareunrol’s // Brett Bailey /the Third World Bunfight// Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio // Hooman Sharifi / Impure Company // Ilya and Emilia Kabakov // Monika Pormale // Hans Rosenström // Anna Viebrock / Till Exit // Josef Bolf // Josef Nadj // Guerra de la Paz // Terike Haapoja // Egon Tobiáš // Elevator Repair Service // Ioana Mona Popovici / Simon Vincenzi // Ulla von Brandenburg // Caroline Evans / Hansjörg Schmidt // Bohdan Holomíček / Eva Hrubá // Abbey Theatre // Harun Farocki // Dace Džeriņa // Paul Divjak // Dejan Kaludjerović