HPC @JG_S01. I Believe I’m/it’s fake (...)
Johanna Gustafsson Fürst work for consonni falls into two parts. The first is called I Believe I’m/it’s fake, I Believe I’m/it’s for Real -in Memory we Trust, and the second, in collaboration with artist Lisa Torell, Outlined Clearly/Clean Out.
Session 1. I Believe I’m/it’s fake, I Believe I’m/it’s for Real -in Memory we Trust. is a performance sculpture
I Believe I’m/it’s fake, I Believe I’m/it’s for Real -in Memory we Trust. continues Pablo Martes’ The problem lies in the medium, which ends in a dramatization of a fragment of The Aesthetics of Resistance I by Peter Weiss. Johanna startsAesthetics of Resistance II where the narrator describes the artist Gericault’s struggle with the painting, The Raft of the Medusa, woven into a description of the catastrophe that caused the horrible incident. It runs parallel with a description of a Europe in crisis and his own painful choice between politics and artistic practice.
I Believe I’m/it’s fake, I Believe I’m/it’s for Real -in Memory we Trust. is a performance sculpture composed of a transparent black tent, a black megaphone and a speech. The speech is a schizophrenic monologue that extends Peter Weiss' novel and thereby inscribes itself within a historical chain of events and of recurring political betrayal. The speech makes use of actions, both artistic and political. The speech and the megaphone express a kind of materiality of democracy. Politics and art have the potential to create connections between the constructed, coherent world and the material world, where the material reality at times reaches a position capable of moving and changing our modes of thinking. In the tradition of Gericault and Peter Weiss, I Believe I’m/it’s fake, I Believe I’m/it’s for Real -in Memory we Trust explores such a position.
The performance is part of Johanna Gustafsson Fürst‘s residency at consonni with support from IASPIS, The Swedish Art Grant Committee’s International Program for Visual Artists.
Complete program:
- Session 1. I Believe I’m/it’s fake, I Believe I’m/it’s for Real -in Memory we Trust. is a performance sculpture
Saturday 22st June, 8pm. At consonni (C/ Conde Mirasol 13).
- Sesión 2. Outlined Clearly/Clean Out. Performance in collaboration with the artist, Lisa Torell.
Wednesday 3st July, 7pm. At consonni (C/ Conde Mirasol 13).
