deutsch    recent
KUNST KOMMT VON KURR

Notgemeinschaft

CONTACT
CV


Notgemeinschaft
(Emergency community)
2001
KMZA, Art and Media Centre Adlershof, Berlin
(Entrance to the gallery)
Looped text on LED-display:


Schlacht bei den Thermopylen: "Wanderer, kommst du nach Sparta,
so sag den meinen, du habest uns hier liegen sehn, wie das Gesetz es befahl!" Oder war es in Marathon?
...... (loop)


Emergency Community is a text on "participating is all", on "institutional critic" and on an organisation called Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Kunst e.V. (Emergency Community of German Art). This still today existing organisation was established in West Berlin after the Second World War, when artists couldn't afford heating for their studios, because coal was very rear in those days. The text on display describes in detail how a desperate artist can get a "first aid grant" by the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Kunst.



∧∧ top