„Kunst Felder. Wilde Ontologien im Dienst der Aktivierung der Geschichte“, Teil 1 Ein von mir kuratiertes, zweiteiliges Programm mit Künstler_innen aus der Ausstellung Fields, ergänzt durch meinen radiophonen Essay Kunstfelder. Kunstfelder ist, by the way, meine erste Radiokunstarbeit seit 1997. Ich widme diese Arbeit Daniel Gilfillan der ein wirklich großartiges BUch über Radiokunst geschrieben hat, mit einem ausgezeichnetem Kapitel über Radio Subcom.
This is the text of my keynote lecture for the Fields exhibition, as delivered on Friday 16th of May 2014 - The Broken Mirror, Art after the dreamworld of digital utopia. Starting from the premise that the financial crisis of 2008 made only visible a deeper, structural crisis of information society, the exhibition Fields was conceived as a survey into possibilities of renewal through art. Art used to be understood as a mirror of society. Then, in the twentieth century, media became the preferred mirror of mass society.
The exhibition "Fields - patterns of social, scientific, and technological transformations" will open on May 15th at Arsenals Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art. FIELDS, jointly curated by Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Armin Medosch will show work by app. 40 artists and is part of Riga 2014, European Capital of Culture. You find the full announcement and press release below.