Is a performance only a performance when it is carried out by a live act? What does “activate” mean in this context? Can visitors’ imaginations also serve as a form of activation? After all, one of our most impressive abilities is to imagine events that are not actually present or happening at the moment that we are envisioning them. All of the invited artists refer to this very moment of activation—whether through actions depicted in film and video, thus making them tangible, or through sound, acoustics, surprising forms and textiles that occupy or even fill the space and encourage these ideas of action.
ACTIVATING! IDEA OF ACTION AS A WORK OF ART
This exhibition is available in
German
Annika Kahrs, Rosalind Nashashibi, Juliette Uzor, Franz Erhard Walther, Doing Fashion HGK Basel FHNW
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Every first Tuesday of the month. 30 minute guided tour through the exhibition with the team of the Kunsthaus, followed by lunch in the Kunsthaus foyer. Price: Admission and guided tour (12.– / 9.– ...
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With Olga Madjinodji, Kunsthaus Baselland 10 CHF / child (with family pass 8 CHF / child) Please bring a snack for the lunch break. Thank you for your registration via vermittlung@kunsthausbaselland ...
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Talk about the installation of Doing Fashion in the current exhibition, followed by a visit to the workshops at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel. With Nils Amadeus Lange, lecturer for ...