iSLAND kEEPERBernd Krauss
| Nov ’09 |
| 8 |
| 7:00 pm |
| Nov ’09 |
| 21 |
| 7:00 pm |
Exhibition by day and theater at night, “iSLAND kEEPER” stakes out new territory for artist Bernd Krauss. The project will include objects and time-based work in several media clustered both spatially and temporally around a live interpretive staging of the film “The American Soldier” by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Presented by the collective “Theater Societaet,” of which Krauss is founding member, the performances will unfold within a circular metal railing inserted into the center of the largest part of the Goethe-Institut New York’s newly renovated Wyoming Building. The piece aims to mimic Goethe’s model of education based on the dilettante’s exploration of masterworks via direct practice, using a minimum of means to enact a process that becomes more important than a piece fulfilled in all its possibilities.
Bernd Krauss, based in Nuernberg, Germany and Southport, Connecticut, often works with series of mutually related spatial situations and actions, involving almost all kinds of traditional artistic expression including paintings, sculptures, drawings, objects, videos, photographs, and performances. He is interested in the most varied levels and manifestations of creative activity that he refers to humorously in his “do-it-yourself” works. While Modernist art often acts as a backdrop to his own tinkering, his inspiration comes rather from the amateur and the dilettante. As an on-going project, for instance, he regularly shoots videos at various events of local character that he edits directly in the video camera. By adding his own commentary he refers to the kind of local television common in most parts of Europe.
Curated by Maria Lind. Organized and presented by the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) and the Goethe-Institut New York.
The performance premieres on Nov. 8 at 7pm. Nightly performances will take place on Wednesdays thru Saturdays, Nov. 11-14 + Nov. 18-21, at 7pm (please rsvp, mentioning title and specific performance date: rsvp@newyork.goethe.org).
Talk and slides with Jan Verwoert, and introduction by RoseLee Goldberg on Nov. 16 , 6pm!
FREE
