Knotenpunkte. Eine Ausstellung mit sieben KünstlerInnen an sieben Orten in Nordrhein-Westfalen (Nodes. Seven artists at seven different exhibition sites in north rhine-westphalia)

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Kultursekretariat Gütersloh, Gütersloh
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Seven artists and seven museums – they constituted the nodes of the homonymous exhibition which was shown in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) from September 16th to November 11th 2007. The project, initiated by the registry of culture of NRW, Gütersloh, and conducted by art historian Matthias Kampmann, has tried to demonstrate seven international positions dealing with the world wide web both in the stricter and broadest sense.The art works were interlinked by a critical examination of central subjects. The works of Cornelia Sollfranks affect the function of the museum and its use as a depot in terms of public property. In the „Märkischen Museum Witten“, Sollfrank examined the problem of "intellectual property", that means the commercialisation of images/ paintings and their patent utilization in times of the world wide web. Within his installation "Trashpavilion", located at "Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen", Sascha Büttner explored the artist’s conditions of production. Carlo Zanni, living in Italy and the USA, combined in a subtle manner his experience as an artist with his experience of migration and summarised them into a poetic audio-visual installation shown at "Kunstmuseum Ahlen".At „Städtisches Museum Gladbeck, Schloss Wittringen“, Ilona Johanna Plattner examined by means of interventions and performances the conflicting priorities between actual (town-) history and the representation of her alter ego as an artist – that means her part as a female "mystic" in terms of three acts. In doing so, she picked out the role of something fictional as a central theme related to the potentiality of the world wide web. "Kunstmuseum Siegen" was the host for the 13-year old Mouchette, someone who only exists in the world wide web. Her examination of suicides, committed by children, is based on reports of real existing people who use Mouchette’s website as a platform of communication.By means of small doses of artifical intelligence little synaptic engines have been generated into the „UNNA UNIT“ created by Jens Brand. This kind of web was perceivable as a sculpture that responded to the environment in different ways: Sometimes it has grown stiff, sometimes it has formed patterns, or reminded itself of past states.Last not least, Richard Kriesche has collected data streams from Google and the stock market. He presented his haul in form of eight projections at "Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten" in Marl. In this way he criticised the established art term and still negates its overreaching concreteness (before 2008, when Damien Hirst initiated the Great Art Bubble Implosion at the same time Lehman Brothers corrupted the whole financial system), which is reflected at auctions of contemporary art on the basis of incredible prices.All these positions gave also evidence that you don’t have to sit in front of a tedious screen while being engaged in art with or within the world wide web. Web-art – a main concern of the exhibition "nodes".All art works have been created for the exhibition exclusively and passed into the stock of the exhibition locations respectively after the end of the show.The project is promoted by the foundation NRW, the County of North Rhine-Westphalia and the registry of culture of NRW, Gütersloh.
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