AGAIN
- How can this process of re-framing lead into an ongoing oscillation between the past and the future?
- What if we consider the exhibition in terms of rehearsal, a medium commonly defined by its static appeal?
- And what if the rehearsal process itself is put on public display? How does that potentially change the notions of performance and rehearsal?
- How would it affect our understanding of what exhibitions do, how they are processed, who is involved and in what way?
- Was könnte situatives Kuratieren bedeuten?
- Wie lässt sich, im Kontext des Kuratorischen, ein sozialer Raum im öffentlichen Raum einrichten?
- Speaking of rehearsal as a performance/exhibition, how can it be archived?
- Denkt man eine Chorprobe als öffentliche Ausstellungssituation, was passiert mit den Noten aus einer Chorprobe und welche Rolle haben sie im Nachhinein?
- How to create a space where to show and to rehearse at the same time?
- Wenn wir Geschichten von Frauen erzählen, die in Männerdomänen eingedrungen sind, um diese aufzubrechen, zementieren wir dann durch unsere (Wieder)-erzählungen eben diese Machtstrukturen?
- Was macht eine Situation zugänglich?
- Is an exhibition a yesterday or a tomorrow?
- How can an exhibition involve a side for showing and trying? ‘What if the rehearsal process itself is put on display?’
- Wie unterschiedlich kann ein und der selbe Raum bespielt werden?
- Wie sehr beeinflussen Vorprägungen oder Erinnerungen die Wahrnehmung eines Raumes?
- Muss eine Frage ‚gut‘ sein, damit sie gestellt werden darf?
- What do you do when you are invited to the party but do not feel welcome?
- Wie lassen sich (allzu) schnell etablierte soziale Strukturen und Rollen in sozialen Situationen dekonstruieren und neu definieren?
- What are the potentials of rehearsal that we can use for the curatorial?
- Was ändert Wissen? Kann Wissen alleine etwas ändern? Oder braucht es eine (dazugehörige) Handlung?
- Wieviel hat das subjektive Gefühl von involviert sein Einfluss auf meine tatsächliche Teilnahme, Partizipation an einer Veranstaltung, an einem Format? Und wieviel hat mein Befinden mit der räumlichen Gestaltung einer Situation zu tun?
- Wie bedingen sich geschriebenes Recht und ungeschriebene sozialen Normen gegenseitig?
- Welche Vor- und welche Nachteile bringen Formate, die Theorie und Praxis in einer Veranstaltung zusammenbringen?
- Inwiefern ist eine Ausstellung in ihrem Format offener oder flexibler als eine Theater- oder Tanzproduktion?
- Wie lange kann man proben, bis es sich erschöpft?
- Was ist die tieferliegende Ebene hinter dem Moment des ‚rehearsals‘, die wir für das Kuratorische nutzen wollen und können?
- Gibt es einen Zusammenhang zwischen der physischen Position, in der man sich als ZuschauerIn während eines Vortrags befindet, und der Aufnahme des inhaltlich präsentierten?
- Wo ist der Basketballkorb?
- Wie kann man das Publikum in etwas involvieren, ohne das es sich dabei unwohl oder zu etwas genötigt fühlt?
- Ist die Probe, durch die ihr inne liegenden Momente der Wiederholung eher eine Limitierung oder eine Erweiterung ihrer Möglichkeiten/Potenziale?
- Bezogen auf die SprecherInnenrolle bei Vorträgen: Was ist das ‚stimmigste‘ Verhältnis zwischen Vortrags- & Partizipationsmomenten? Wann habe ich die Stimme, wann gebe ich die Stimme ab?
- How to curate (cultural situations in) the public space?
- Would have been there a possibility to manifest something in the public trough our bodily gathering?
- How do you want to appropriate the (public) space?
NON-SHOW
- With every act of showing something invisible is performed as well: institutional frameworks, questions of representations,and practices of collaboration are an essential part of every moment of display. How do they relate to the process of showing?
- Is protocol something that you also use as a term?
- How is it possible to speak for a collective as a single person?
- In what way are you experimenting, adopting the framework you are working in?
- What if you pose a question and someone does not answer?
- What if you invite someone and the person does not come?
- What if you ask about it and the person says ‘not my problem’?
- Wie gehe ich ein konzeptionell geprägtes Projekt an?
- Wie interessant kann/muss eine Non-Show aus künstlerischer Perspektive gestaltet sein, um beim Publikum Interesse herstellen zu können? Oder anders: Wieviel tatsächlich sichtbaren Inhalt braucht eine Non-Show, um für das Publikum ästhetisch/inhaltlich greifbar zu bleiben?
- How can we find methods to make working in a hierarchical cultural institution more comfortable—beside money and time pressure?
- What are the potentials of a hangout?
- Can everyone in his or her position boycott?
- How can one deal with the limits of translation?
- What is my responsibility as part of an audience?
- How can we built up conversations where people can feel comfortable and invited in?
- How do I create a space as an audience? What role can I take on? What role do I want to take on?
- How do we embody knowledge that we unlearn?
- How is it possible to show the context of the how?
- What is the nature of a canon? What does it consist of?
- If we only change the mode of the choice, how do we come to our new canon?
- How can one deconstruct the canon?
- Who needs the canon?
- What does the canon actually tell?
- How is it possible to participate in the canon? From what angle for what purpose?
- How is value created?
- How is the canon constructed? What might be other constructions be available?
- How can one rethink critique without reproducing what is criticized?
- How can we be a bit more generously?
- How can an individual speak for a collective?
- Can wasting time be used as a method, as a resource, a chance?
- Why is it not healthy to get funding?
- If curating is a research method, what role does the artist have?
- Why should we still use the format of exhibition, when using the curatorial as research? Why not a book, instagram..?
- How can we use artistic practice to talk about more social issues in the public?
- How much responsibility do I have as a host for the dialog when creating a common space in a public event?
- Is Show & Try Again an exhibition or a happening?
- How much is this title of Show & Try Again connected to the term of friction?
- Is the curatorial more important as a noun or as an adjective?
- How can all voices be heard—even the silent ones?
- How to use bodily movement to deconstruct the power structure of a situation?
- Is there a protocol for a hangout?
- Can one be host and guest at the same time?
- How can you throw a brick at a bank while you can't walk out of that bank?
- To assembly or not to assembly?
- To biennial or not to biennial?
- How can we talk about the topic of language in a language we all understand? Wie können wir über das Thema Sprache sprechen, in einer Sprache, die wir alle verstehen?
- How can we dissolve a structure in which we immediately act in a certain role and hierarchy with which we do not feel comfortable?
ASSEMBLY
- What is the political and emancipatory potential of an assembly? And how can this open up spaces for discussion?
- How can these temporal structures become productive in terms of meaning production?
- How can this meaning production participate in shifts and changes of existing knowledges as well as existing social, economic, institutional conditions?
- How can coming together support urgent solution building processes?
- Where is the crack in every system, that allows us to change the structure?
- Have you had a productive day?
- What is the role of the pause in public events? And how is it possible to use it more consciously?
- With what kind of practical measures will art and art institutions take care for our planetary?
- How is it possible to create touchabilities?
- Where and when to stop or to boycott?
- Can a discussion also be an artwork?
- How to talk back? Does the talk back use the same terms as the talk?
- Is there a post-representational museum?
- What does it take to stop? When do you say enough is enough?
- How to perform things that are philosophically impossible?
- What are the consequences of failure?
- How is infrastructure embedded in our aesthetics?
- Was macht einen Vortag für mich lebendig und lädt meine Lebendigkeit als BesucherIn in den Prozess mit ein, in der Form, dass ich mich dazu berufen fühle Fragen zu stellen, zu partizipieren usw.?
- Welche Bedingungen braucht Humor, um sich wohl zu fühlen?
- How to use movement to restructure hierarchies in curated situations?
- Who is aware of which friction?
- Who is allowed to talk about which topic?
- Can a biennial be an assembly?
- How is it possible to hack the system?
- Welche Frage, die du gerne gestellt hättest, hast du nicht gefragt? Und warum?
- How to invite the (potentials of) vulnerability?
- How do you dissolve and conserve singularity?
IN ADDITION
All questions are coming from the context of Show and Try Again—formulated by speakers, used by artists, written by the initiators, asked by the audience, thought by myself.
No claim to completeness and correctness.
And a warm thank u to all my interview partners for sharing their knowledge and experiences—in the form of questions.
