Venue:Industriedenkmal Stelzenhaus
Partner: With the kind support of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, the Cultural Office of the City of Leipzig, the Art Fund Foundation and Sehnsucht nach Freiheit. This project is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.
Banner performance in public space by Ute Richter and Angelika Waniek in cooperation with Slacknetz Leipzig e.V. and curated by Kunstraum IDEAL
Location: In front of the industrial monument Stelzenhaus in Leipzig-Plagwitz
Date: 11 January 2025, 12:30-15:00
The intervention depends on the weather!
Alternative dates: 12/18/19.1.25 - current information on the website of Kunstraum IDEAL and on Instagram @ideal_artspace
A banner moves across the Karl-Heine-Kanal. It is expansive. Visually, the action refers to the official political slogans of the GDR in public spaces, which propagated politically legitimised anti-fascism on large, oversized banners. In terms of content, the ambivalence of the slogan thematises the contradictions of the politics of remembrance.
"Remembrance as the highest form of forgetting" is an exhibition project by artist Ute Richter in collaboration with Angelika Waniek and curated by Kunstraum IDEAL. It thematises anti-fascist forms of remembrance and takes a special look at the culture of remembrance in the GDR and the continuities from the Nazi era to the present day.
The first act took place in November with the lecture "On discarding and experiencing the past: a contradictory model of remembrance" by Felicitas Kübler and a performance by Angelika Waniek in the city library. The third act is an exhibition from 16 March in the rooms of IDEAL and in public spaces.
