Installation by INTIMATE BORDER(S) - Constanze Fischbeck, Karolina Sobel (installation), Mirko Winkel, Carolin Schurr (research) as part of the "12th Festival Politics in Independent Theatre"
Opening & Performative Activation: Fri. 17.10. & Fri. 24.10. 15:00-18:00, open: Wed.-Fri. 14:00-18:00, Sat. & Sun. 14:00-17:00
The "Graniczanka", the border dwellers, live in front of, behind and between the politically defined borders. Their everyday lives unfold between two countries and, in the border triangle between Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic, even three. They know the world of currency differences, different languages and radio ranges. Although they share a common sky, they have different memories of a common history. They can choose where they buy the freshest vegetables, which dentist or manicurist they go to or how their child benefit flows faster.
The "Graniczanka" installation invites you to participate in the knowledge of the border residents. It raises questions such as: In what way does everyday practice undermine political reality? Where does the political appear in the everyday? Does the Polish West also need mobile counselling centres against right-wing extremism? What longings commute daily over bridges, through forests and past petrol stations?
A cooperation of the HGB Gallery, the Class for Performative Arts of the HGB and the 12th Festival Politics in Independent Theatre
The gallery of the Academy of Fine Art sees itself as a membrane between the interior and exterior of the institution. The gallery's aim is to supplement and extend both the teaching contents and practices of the various departments as well as making a contribution to current inquiries in the arts, thereby establishing connections between internal and external discussions and - being situated in the centre of the academy - offering a social and discursive place for carrying out such debates. In the framework of the academy's specific capabilities, the gallery affords students, lecturers, invited artists, curators and theoreticians an experimental and reflective form of exhibition practice that can incorporate, beyond the presentations themselves, the active involvement with the exhibition and the reworking and reformulating discursive material.