site-specific installation for the collective show: Maribor <edu> Graz. LESSON 1: A TEMPORARY, IMPROVISED CONTEXT OF COMMUNICATION. <rotor> center for contemporary art
A joint project by son:DA / Maribor & < rotor > / Graz, questioning the fact that, despite being the second largest cities in Slovenia and Austria, Maribor and Graz lack institutions for contemporary art education.
For the exhibition in Graz, a mobile “admissions office” toured the city to enroll passersby as “students” of the fictional Transnational Guerrilla Art School: TGAS. By filling out an application form with his/her main interests and desires, a life-long student card was issued, “entitling” the person to continuously learn from and change his/her own living environment. In the second exhibition in Maribor, an open “classroom” was assembled with furniture and materials borrowed from different local actors in the fields of art, culture, and urban development. Throughout the project, more than 200 application forms were filled out. The gathered information was assembled into a mind map in which people’s desires, interests and ideas were systematized.
