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Press release 1 (9/30/1999)
4. Werkleitz Biennale
July 5. - 9. 2000 in Werkleitz, Tornitz and Calbe/Saale
The 4. Werkleitz Biennale with the thematic title of real[work] focuses on the regional and global discussion on the shifting notion of work and the implied transformation of the social evaluation of work, real[work], like the preceding Biennale sub fiction, addresses a current social issue and aims to investigate different artistic perspectives and fields of working.
The decline of the economic significance of employment within industrial production is accompanied by the simultaneously expanding service and information economy which, however, does not compensate the arising deficit of jobs. The changes not only affect the general societal, but also strongly the individual ways of reception. A new notion of material and immaterial work comes into existance, which not only describes employment as the classical relationship of the exchange of labour and pay, but also contains an extensive range of newly formed social relationships, new fields of occupation and job profiles, changing ways of communication and business organisation as well as a new evaluation of the acting individual. Dependant work appears to be in short supply, while new notions of work are developing, which create new structures of social and private living under altered premises.
For the upcoming 4. Werkleitz Biennale, six curators from three countries will invite international artists with their works in the fields of Visual Arts, Film/Video, Internet and Performance Art, where real[work] sees itself as an impulse to reflect the different approaches of the continuing discussion on the future and new definition of work. A focus on the results of social change may play a role as well as the questioning of the position of artistic production and models of production within shifting social assignations of functions. What importance has unemployment in a society, which no longer has work for everyone? What relevance has artistic work in a society, in which economic development increasingly is subject to individualisation with simultaneous expansion of global structures of economy? To what extent does artistic practice correspond with the societal reality and the development of models of living and surviving? How is the relationship between cultural practice and services within the "involuntary leisure society" going to be defined?
In the region of Saxony-Anhalt and especially in the Landkreis Schönebeck, location of the Werkleitz Biennale, the topic of real[work] is of particular importance: There has been the highest registered unemployment rate(with over twenty percent) in Germany for years. The sudden loss of traditional resources of work as a result of the closing of East German industries and the establishing of information- and mediaservice facilities, to which the Werkleitz Gesellschaft with its media and arts projects can be added to, embody two extreme poles in the rural region, which real[work] brings into a constructive field of tension.
Curators of the 4. Werkleitz Biennale
Video/Film
Marcel Schwierin, filmmaker, film theorist, curator; Berlin
Florian Wuest, artist, filmmaker and curator for experimental film and video art; Rotterdam
Visual Arts
Corinna Koch, curator, Hamburg together with
Christiane Mennecke, curator; Hamburg
Performance
Ray Langenbach, performance artist, curator; Singapore/Australia
Internet
Benjamin Heidersberger, Ponton European Media Art Lab, realization of large-scale media projects in Europe,
USA and Japan; Hannover
Homepage: http://www.werkleitz.de/realwork
For further information, please contact:
Festival direction
Thomas Munz (E-mail: tm@werkleitz.de) and
Peter Zorn (E-mail: pz@werkleitz.de)
Tel.: 039298 / 675-0
Fax: 039298 / 675-55
Press service
Joachim Penzel (E-mail: Joachimpenzel@aol.com)
Tel. / Fax: 0345 / 5510618
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