The
Invisible Touch brings together an international group of artists whose works
confirm different modes of sensory based communication. Next to sight -
sound, smell, taste and touch, sensual experiences that make reality
palpable, play a major role in their work. The artists in this project share
a common creative goal: they search out different models of conveyance based on
sensory methods.
In the process, by exploring sentient dimensions, these artists achieve a more concrete
and experiential connection with their public, full of living and
individuated possibilities that articulate their artwork as a vital or concrete essence - a direct conduit
of experience rather than as a form of mediated representation. By placing sensory over
rhetorical communication, the artists in this project effect a redestination from aesthetic formality
to a directness of the creative experience that positions art as a working - active
reality, openly
soliciting participation from its different publics. Their artwork "is" and
"does" rather than simply represent or depict. Artists are becoming increasingly aware of the limitations placed on
creative communication through various protective contexts. Works in this project
also strive for a flexible, elastic connection with various real life situations
and/or
experiences that would extend the performative possibility of art, and thereby also strengthen its
connection with life.
The Invisible Touch provides an opportunity to experience
art less as a one-sided object or effect set up for edification, than a reciprocating and less predictable
exchange of communication. Through various methods, these contemporary practices expand
our experience of artwork as a rich field of communication, urging us to rethink
and reimagine the world around us. The artists in The Invisible Touch
seek out sensory modes of engagement that intensify the communique between artwork and its public as
an exploratory gestalt and encourage involvement with various realities that
surround us.
By favoring open-ended, negotiable dialogs with their public, the artworks
in this project suggest the exploration of sentient experiences as a new realism in the
making.
Maia Damianovic
New York, September 1999
Artists: Martin Creed, Anya Gallacio,
Kendell Geers, Manfred Grübl, Jens Haaning, Michael Kienzer, Job
Koelewijn, Mischa
Kuball, Achim Mohné, Ernesto
Neto, Flora Neuwirth, Lucy Orta, Marina Rosenfeld, Martin Walde, Fritz
Fitzke/Tapsi/Julia Zdarsky
Curator: Maia Damianovic, New York
An exhibition by Kunstraum Innsbruck. |
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The exhibition
is sponsored by:
ORF Ö1 Club, IVB, Wulz AV Center Tirol, Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum Ploberger
Isolierungen, Hafen, Utopia, Danish Contemporary Art Foundation, Mondriaan
Stichting, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Association Français d'Action
Artistique, Institut Français d'Innsbruck, British Council, Geiger Moden, Bundeskanzleramt Kunstsektion, Creditanstalt AG
Tirol, Musikfundgrube |
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