Alien in My Space: June 2011

Exhibition of visual works of participants from AIM project

12/04/2011 - 18/06/2011

Bilateral activity/P60/Centre for culture and society/Erciyes University in Kayseri/GlogauAIR/Kunst-Förderverein Berlin e.V.

Each organization/institution of cultural network linked with Alien in my space comes from different cultural, methodical, organizational and generational backgrounds. Thus we want to exchange our experiences with art as a learning experience means and tool of social transformation.

That is the reason we have decided to organize an exhibition in one of the most frequently visited artistic meeting points (the theatre Ha Divadlo). The exhibition not only filled the condition of cultural and professional background, but the place itself does also characterize the theme “Alien in my space” from “the opposite view”. The fact that we have chosen a space of a “theatre” instead of a common exhibition space usually appointed for visual arts thus not only extended the spectrum of visitors /who primarily came to see the performance/ but the visitors had also a chance to meet with works by fine artists. The combination thus provided an opportunity of mutual learning within the exhibition space and sharing experiences among partners. /The CKS as an organization mainly linked to theatre activities thus draws into the creative process other organizations specialized in fine arts into the creative process/.

The opening exhibition took place on April 12, 2011. An accompanying programme of the opening was an evening of literary conquest final awarding /by the Větrné mlýny publishments – a sister company of the CKS/. The literary conquest was called “A letter to Gagarin” and it was announced in the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the first man in space. Particularly the theme of Gagarin´s space travels and the “alienism” has become the impulse for inviting our Grundtvig partners.

Our common activities were related to theme Alien in my space. Considering the phenomenon of Gagarin the motive has been shifted, because he himself became “an alien for aliens”. The motive shift could be viewed not in the motive of a human being flying into space of “aliens”, but in the fact that there in space are aliens at home and human being thus becomes an alien to them in their home space.

The Czech generation after 1989 has quite often confronted the feeling of “being an alien in their space”. The economical and political changes of 89 have caused migration of many young people who have decided to live and work abroad. The society of post-communist countries has very frequently experienced the feeling of suddenly sharing a space which belongs to somebody else. It automatically evoked Non-tolerance, a feeling of being a foreigner somewhere, a strucking contrast of cultural and social traditions, interlinking of similarities in form of globalization, unability to accept – all of these facts were felt and visible in the exhibiting works of the 10 EU fine artists.

Objectives:
- Artistic interdepartmental cooperation/linking theatre and fine arts in organizational and cultural management fields
- Interlinking of arts coming from different cultural and social backgrounds
- Interpretation of phrase “Alien in my space“ to a feeling of human being, who becomes “an alien in their space“
- Communication about the possibilities of using space not primarly appointed for fine art exhibition – installation of art, space parametres, starting points and results
- Common exhibition arrangements
- By artistic exhibition evoke questions of problems regarding inhabitant migration from former Eastern block to the Western lands – social, psychological and economical aspects

The Solaris Gallery was represented with works by authors Leny Braun and Finn K. Buchwald; the GlogauAir by works by Sonia Orfila, Paco Vallejo, Sergio Frutos, Irene Pascual, Johny Amore. The Kayiseri UniversityTurkey was presented by video art by the author Hakan Pehlivan. The CKS was represented by work of Slovak fine artist Michal Gogora. The P60 was represented by video art by authors Marcel Verschoor and Nicole van Reitschoten.

Alien in My Space

5th Symposium of the partners in Berlin

"Alien in my space"exhibition in Brno 12/04/ - 18/06/2011