Commissioned
by 0047 and developed by nOffice (Markus Miessen, Ralf
Pflugfelder and Magnus Nilsson) and 0047, Space
Station is a spatial social experiment that invents a system and methodology in
order to renegotiate the relationship between art production, the exhibition
and its spatial envelope.
In recent
decades reflections on how presentation and mediation confer meaning to
artistic practices have evolved beyond the limits of historical and theoretical
realms. Increasingly, practitioners have become preoccupied with the
consideration of presentation forms. Artists have injected administration,
mediation, and interpretation facets into the scope of their practice.
Presentation forms have expanded to include lectures, film screenings, and
interventions. Exhibition sites have been transformed into spaces of production
and inhabitation. Understanding exhibition space as a medium in its own right,
Space Station challenges models of presentation, mediation and archiving, and
promotes the perception of architecture as an active device capable of probing
and altering institutions and political conditions.
Space
Station
is centered around a series of sixty-hour long residencies that take place
within nOffice’s conceived and designed Space Enabler - an installation that
incorporates various functional elements and reconfigures 0047’s gallery space.
During this period, artists will not only work within but also completely
inhabit 0047, concentrating their time within the gallery and shifting the
center of their life to the institution. Each resident will be free to occupy
the gallery as they wish, and after their departure will leave behind traces of
their presence – but not before hosting a moving out party.
Residencies:
#1
nOffice:
March 23-25 / Moving–out party: March 25, 7pm
#2 Tone
Hansen:
April 8-10 / Full weekend program
#3
Institute for Colour:
April 27-29 / Moving–out party: april 29, 7pm
#4
Jesper Alvær:
May 11-13 / Moving–out party: may 13, 7pm
#5 Can
Altay:
May 25-27 / Moving–out party: may 27, 7pm