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We are fabricators of the world, craftsmen of realities, producers of everyday life, followers of tradition and creators of the futures yet to come, sculptors of localities. As a study in performative belonging, this exhibition catalogue examines a possibility of homo faber in the world of eigensinn. Life and labor as well as the passion that articulates them are the focus of the exhibition. Here, like through the lens of a magnifying glass, the human condition is portrayed and expressed as the performance of an emancipated and autonomous self. Self-will appears as a mental and physical mechanism that shapes and conditions the identity of a social and cultural microcosm. We are in the vague space of in-between where the small and the intimate, the personal and the exclusive challenge the inevitable global and cosmopolitan quality of contemporary society. Self-will is the troublesome territory where togetherness and the sense of belonging struggle with the stubbornness of singularity and a self-centered universe.
Accompanied by a team of cultural studies scholars six international artist projects deal with topics of regional significance.
Fabricators of the World. Scenarios of Self-Will
Adam Budak and Peter Pakesch (ed.)
Universalmuseum Joanneum 2010