KC Hill
Dexter
Cibbuano
Paladin
Craig Hill
Oracle of DelphiSPACE. Sites for Art
February 28th 2007 00:22
The Academy of Arts opened the exhibition “SPACE. Sites for Art” on February 23, 2007. It is the conclusion of an interdisciplinary project that has run for three years. The project began with the “prologue” to the opening of the new building on Pariser Platz and continued with an international symposium and a whole series of events. The central theme of the exhibition is the question of the relationship between space and site in the arts of the 20th and beginning 21st centuries.
This takes up, on the one hand, an artistic problem and, on the other, also the answer of the arts to a global change in our society. Art has become site-less – and not just since the emergence of virtual media. Already since the beginning of the 20th century, the arts increasingly connect depictions of space with an examination of their own site. With the disappearance of the unquestioned hierarchy of societal sites in modernism, art lost not only its commission to represent, but also the foundation of its traditional understanding of itself.
This takes up, on the one hand, an artistic problem and, on the other, also the answer of the arts to a global change in our society. Art has become site-less – and not just since the emergence of virtual media. Already since the beginning of the 20th century, the arts increasingly connect depictions of space with an examination of their own site. With the disappearance of the unquestioned hierarchy of societal sites in modernism, art lost not only its commission to represent, but also the foundation of its traditional understanding of itself.
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