Participating artists:Qutiba Alchalabi, Tobias Bertz, Diren Demir, Inga Kruse, Tobias Kurpat, Tine Metschke, Alaina Nugnis, Daisam Othman, Barbora Svobodová
supervised by Sven Bergelt
Period (opening hours):Tue.-Sun. & public holidays 10am-6pm, Thurs. 10am-8pm
Venue:Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum
Deutscher Platz 1
04103 Leipzig
On the occasion of the "Day of Forgetting. And Remembering", the Class for Artistic Action and Research at the HGB Leipzig is exhibiting in the permanent exhibition of the German Museum of Books and Writing as part of the "Forget it?!" exhibition.
The artistic interventions utilise research-based, site-specific, speculative and power-critical working methods. They scrutinise processes of remembering and forgetting from different perspectives and make references to thematic focal points of the permanent exhibition, such as: De/industrialisation, hegemonic representation of history, forms of censorship or loss and preservation of knowledge.
The title CTRL Z / CTRL Y refers to the keyboard shortcuts "Undo" and "Redo", which in digital space make it possible to undo what has already been deleted from the temporary cache. In the vague zone between these two commands, it is decided what will be retrieved or deleted forever. In this space of thought, the artistic works illuminate ambivalences between forgetting and remembering.
A co-operation of the Class for Artistic Research and Action, HGB Leipzig with the German Museum of Books and Writing in the German National Library and the Leipziger WissensSpuren.
Free admission.
The exhibition is barrier-free.
