Press
Release
Official Opening of the Web Museum for Language with the Exhibition «zivilgeneratur» (civil
generature)
9 works on the language of civil evolution
Interdisciplinary
exhibition by artists, authors, philosophers
Participants: Maurizio Cattelan & Paola Manfrin (Italy /USA);
Camille Rose Garcia & Janet Ginsburg (USA); Noam Braslavsky (Israel/Germany),
Astrid Menze & Thomas Ladenburger (Germany); Wojciech Stamm (Poland/Germany);
Ola Lewin (Lithuania/Israel/Germany); Cesare Viel (Italy); Hüseyin
Arda (Turkey/Germany);
Emma Braslavsky (Germany)
Duration From March 6 – 28, 2004
Artistic director Emma Braslavsky
On Saturday, March 6, 2004, at the new location of the GdK Galerie
der Künste, in Berlin, the first nonacademic, interdisciplinary
and transmedial language museum will open with an exhibition featuring
a roster of international artists: «zivilgeneratur» (civil
generature). papirossa is a museum whose premises are found permanently
in the internet, but which does not regard language as bound to a
medium; it is a web museum because it uses language to weave together
virtual and actual disciplines, arts and sciences. The language museum
takes language as its subject and uses the arts, the sciences and
philosophy as means of demonstration. With periodic exhibits and
events, and in cooperation with other institutions, we explore phenomena
through language and through language states. Each selected work
will be translated into a digital version
and displayed permanently in the online museum.
The
opening of the language museums is also the launch of an international
call for statements and works that take a transcultural, transdisciplinary
and transmedial approach to language. The
curators will select interesting approaches from the selected works
and then present them in an exhibit.
Over time, this will give rise to categories and viewpoints, solutions
and structures made visible by a range
of works. We are looking for rule systems that transcend grammar.
Works can be sent to kuratorium@papirossa.org or by mail to papirossa – netzmuseum
fuer sprache,
PO Box 309136, D-10760 Berlin/Germany.