on dis/place/ment
steirischer herbst '97

GRANULAR=SYNTHESIS: AREAL A
KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH: ANONYMOUS MUTTERING

Concept and production: Reinhard Braun
Technical director: Franz Gossleth
Coordination: Inge Amschl

on dis/place/ment focuses on a transformation of social space by the
mass/tele/hyper media, the shift and irritation of the contexts and
connections of experience that determine our action. The project asks
about the social space under media conditions, about mediatized space as
a parameter of collective cultural practises.

"In order to set up one's own parameters it is necessary to reconstruct
the objects, meanings and contexts accordingly. In order to expand the
communicative perspectives it is necessary to find and invent locations
of a new art [a new social sphere?, R. B.]. Today, such locations are
sites of temporary intensity rather than institutions of permanence."
–Knowbotic Research

"Areal A" as well as" Anonymous Muttering" created as part of "on
dis/pace/ment" for the steirischer herbst festival 97 can be referred to
this focus on mediatized space (as space of art and the social sphere)
and construct exemplary (non-) locations of a temporary intensity.

Both projects ask about the possible locations of the subject in view of
the technological acceleration of perception and production and social
traffic as a whole, i.e. the question as to possible artistic strategies
of constructing adequate fields and options of action within the scope
of this acceleration. But they also ask about the constitution and
manifestations of social "bodies", their composition, their forms of
exchange, their fields of operation, contexts, exclusions, their
disappearance. Both "Areal A" and "Anonymous Mutterin" show exemplarily
that public spaces, existing constructed spaces, can no longer be
conceived and analysed as locations or spaces in the classical sense,
but must rather be taken to be dynamic systems of media-indicated and
media-generated overlaps and shifts. They have mutated to become hybrid
spaces subject to constant dis/place/ment that form a highly mobile
field of strategic decisions in which the individual is increasingly
involved as a social construction and body.

GRANULAR=SYNTHESIS: AREAL A
Oct. 23 and 24, 1997
Im Reininghaus, Reininghausstr. 1-7, 8020 Graz
8.00 - 12.00 pm

KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH: ANONYMOUS MUTTERING
Oct. 28. - 31, 1997
Telecommunication centre of PTA, Aegydigasse 6, 8020 Graz
8.00 - 11.00 pm