Scenarios of Self-Will                                      

Adam Budak and Peter Pakesch  (ed.)   

This catalouge is published on the occasion of the exhibition Fabricators of the World. Scenarios of Self-Will 
Schloss Trautenfels June 3 to October 31, 2010
as part of the regionale10 festival of Styrian culture

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.

Artists:
Pawel Althamer (PL) with his class of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT), Franz Kapfer (AT), L/B (CH), Christian Philipp Müller (CH), Maria Papadimitriou (GR), Katerina Sedá (CZ)

Edited by: Adam Budak and Peter Pakesch
Universalmuseum Joanneum
Graz 2010
ISBN: 3-90209-530-5
Language: English (also available in German)
300 pages
Format: 23 x 16,5 cm