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>> In Suspense<<
Albeit Unintentionally – Rather Acrobatic

Poster project at < rotor >’ s entrance portal
Duration: Late May until autumn 2020

The poster sets will change every two weeks, starting with a contribution by Veronika Hauer. Her two images are part of a project titled speech is to be looked at. There, the artist shows us various drawings that can be easily assigned to a concept. In doing so, she demonstrates how cognitive processes work and how people strive to pigeonhole everything around them. But here it is not the hands that one would expect in this particular setting.

The next four poster sets are artworks created by:
Erwin Polanc, Roman Klug, Keyvan Paydar,
Christina Helena Romirer

After the lockdown on 16 March, < rotor > felt compelled to postpone all projects planned for 2020 that have to do with participatory art and/or artistic research projects and that cannot be continued at present until next year.

We are happy to announce today the start of a newly conceived project, which has been developed in response to the new circumstances that have arisen in the recent weeks.

“To be in suspense is to hold your breath. And to look with as much attention as possible at what is simply there, at what offers itself to you in the presence of things.” The French psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle (1964-2017) offers us this formulation in her 2011 book Éloge du risque (engl. In Praise of Risk, 2019). In one of the brief chapters, which is titled “In Suspense”, she advocates that the interim state itself be appreciated: “Suspension is not the arrested time that comes before something else happens; it is the event itself”.
The aforementioned book by Anne Dufourmantelle is one of the sources of inspiration for the project presented here. She refers to tight-rope walkers and trapeze artists, among others, and their ability to “attempt this miracle of suspense out on the wire”. “Taking the risk of being in suspense is rather acrobatic,” concludes Anne Dufourmantelle. And this is also an ability that is demanded of people in view of the uncertainties and unpredictability that accompany the current situation: to be—albeit unintentionally—acrobatic.

At the same time, the poster series is the prelude to an exhibition in the < rotor > premises, which will be opened to the public in September. In addition to the artists mentioned above, other protagonists of the Graz and Styrian art scene will participate. In addition, works from the art collection of the City of Graz will be included in the exhibition.

Curatorial team:
Margarethe Makovec, Anton Lederer, Leonhard Rabensteiner, Markus Waitschacher, with the collaboration of Birgit Kulterer (Collection of the City of Graz/Cultural Department)

< rotor >'s entrance portal with the poster set by
Veronika Hauer