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Site-specific Research documenta 14, June 7-9, Kassel

See also: Site-specific Research documenta 14, April 6-9, 2017, Athens

 

Prinz Gholam: Performance "Speaking of Pictures"

Site-specific Research: Prinz Gholam, Performance "Speaking of Pictures" at Lutherplatz, Kassel, 07.06.2017, 15:00
Kirsten Kötter, water colour, 17 x 24 cm

 

Athens and Kassel I

Athens and Kassel are documenta-14-siblings. So you get the possibility

• to trace the development of works of art (e.g. "The Round-up Projekt: Kokkinia" by Mary Zygouri)
• to experience the same work of art at two different places (e.g "When Elephants Fight, It Is the Frogs That Suffer" by Ben Patterson)
• to witness works of art which connect the two places

 

"The Round-up Project: Kokkinia" by Mary Zygouri

Historical ground with ruined building, garden and museum, water colour, 17 x 24 cm, 09.04.2017

In the museum, water colour, 24 x 32 cm, 09.04.2017

In the studio across the street, water colour, 24 x 32 cm, 09.04.2017

"The Round-up Project: Kokkinia", video by Mary Zygouri

"The Round-up Project: Kokkinia", video by Mary Zygouri

"The Round-up Project: Kokkinia", video by Mary Zygouri

The Museum of the Kokkinia Blockade is situated in the municipality of Nikaia, a suburban district near Piraeus. The museum commemorates a massacre on August 17, 1944, when German Nazi troops executed 74 members of the Greek Resistance. Refering to that history and the present crisis, the Greek artist Mary Zygouri works together with pupils and with other inhabitants from the neighbourhood. The pupils are part of a performance. Old men perform music. Zygouri and her team run a long time project which reasearches the historical incident of 1944 and a related performance of 1979. The project is meant to improve the present situation in this area wich was always the home of refugees. The results of this collaborative and social project are shown in installations, in a performance and in a film.

I know this project from Athens. In Kassel you can see the video of the project in Palais Bellevue. Streams of red colour, red hues occur in the video. That reminds me to the Orgies Mysterien Theater by Hermann Nitsch. I watch the video. Then I sit down on the floor in the room and I paint an abstract water colour.

Site-specific Research "The Round-up Project: Kokkinia, video by Mary Zygouri"
Kirsten Kötter, water colour, 12 x 17 cm, 08.06.2017

 

Athens and Kassel II

Athens is new. In Kassel, the documenta team can use established structures. The team charges an open door in Kassel. In Athens everything had to be reinvented. Athens is new to the audience, too. The museums are new. The places in the city are new. In Kassel many places are well-known. The documenta in Athens was different, unaccustomed. The documenta in Kassel is much morer familiar.

 

Palais Bellevue

Ground floor:

Kirsten Kötter, Site-specific Research: Christos Papoulias, 1966, a Child's Attic, and Other Stories (2014) / Guillermo Galindo, various works, Acrylic on Cotton / Bonita Ely, Interior Decoration: Memento Mor (2013-2017) - art about trauma / Abel Rodriguez, Studies of Principal Trees in the Forest
Water colour, 17 x 24 cm, 08.06.2017

Christos Papoulias, 1966, a Child's Attic, and Other Stories (2014). Art about a childhood with partly terrible memories

Guillermo Galindo, various works about war and other themes, Acrylic on Cotton

Bonita Ely, Interior Decoration: Memento Mor (2013-2017) - art about trauma

 

Upstairs:

Rosalind Nashashibi: Paintings, she also present her video "In Vivian's Garden" (2017) in the Naturkundemuseum im Ottoneum.

Kirsten, Kötter, Site-specific Research 'Winter' by Rosalind Nashashibi
Water colour, 12 x 17 cm, 08.06.2017

Kirsten, Kötter, Site-specific Research 'In Vivian's Garden' by Rosalind Nashashibi
Water colour, 12 x 17 cm, 08.06.2017

Rosalind Nashashibi, In Vivian's Garden (left)

Rosalind Nashashibi, Winter (straightforeward)

 

Gießhaus

Angela Melitopoulos: Crossings (2017), video and sound installation in a circular room, adressing water and the environmental impacts of an open pit gold mine in Greece

Kirsten Kötter, Site-specific Research 'Crossing' by Angela Melitopoulos
Water colour, 17 x 24 cm, 07.06.2017

 

Neue Neue Galerie

Performance for one person at the entrance of the exhibition space 'Neue Neue Galerie', silver shoes are passed on from one performer to the next one - I painted twice.
Water colour, 17 x 24 cm, 07.06.2017

 

See also: Site-specific Research documenta 14, April 6-9, 2017, Athens

 

 

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