Documenta as a Fiction Workshops


Fiction touches on invented stories, fantasies and literary conventions. It
sits on the side of creativity, arbitrariness and doubt. Its power belongs
to the speaking subject. but also to the listening one, flickering in the
instantaneous and capricious relation between the two (or more) of them. In
this framework, Documenta as a Fiction is foreseen as both an event and a
theoretical figure based on an actual story. Resonating the ontological
dissonance between the traditional notions of document and fiction, the
workshop seeks for the plots and narratives of contemporary art as well as
its institutional visions, giving a space for the performative encounters of
individuals.



The participants will investigate the stories and their tellers with
reference to the set of narratives grown over Documenta as a discursive
engine. Especially over the current Documenta that outsources a part of its
intellectual power to the network of art magazines and amplifies
interconnections within the institutionalised art world, opening up a broad
field of criticality over the predominant language in which art is being
conveyed to the public. What is story? What is narrative? What is document
and what is fiction? Whose is credibility? Which languages relate to or
mediate reality - those of theory or of practice? How does vision turn into
visibility? How does artistic action turn into actuality?



Students of art, art history and philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts in
Gdansk, Gdansk University, the Royal College of Art in London and Johannes
Gutenberg University in Mainz, none of whom has yet visited this year's
Documenta in Kassel, will analyse public and personal representations of
this event. They will examine the languages in which art is being
communicated, observe intellectual and institutional frames and create their
own narratives through drawings, confessions, interviews, video, photo and
textual documentations that will be frequently posted on the web at
http://www.documentaasafiction.blospot.com
. Grounded in the performativity
of the group, Documenta as a Fiction is aimed at the collaborative process
without conclusion. The group will reunite in Kassel on September 18-22 to
confront the real and the fictions.



Participants: Maks Bochenek, Igor Duszynski, Ola Grzonkowska, Anne Hoffmann,
Hiwa K., Kordian Lewandowski, Zuzanna Malicka, Ulrich Mauer, Mathias Pelda,
Roma Piotrowska, Konrad Pustola.

Workshop moderators: Aneta Szylak and Magda Pustola.

Special guest: Artur Zmijewski.

Special project "Ungeklappte Arbeiten" by Hiwa K.



Conceived by Wyspa Institute of Art as a part of the workshops organised by
the Ghent-based A Prior Magazine www.aprior.org
participating in the Documenta 12 Magazine Platform, Documenta as a Fiction
is being additionally supported by the Schwerpunkt Polen at Johannes
Gutenberg University in Mainz, the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk,
Kunsthochschule Kassel and 3City.pl. Documenta as a Fiction logo was
designed by LOWBUDGET www.lowbudget.pl .


Documenta as a Fiction Workshop at Wyspa Institute of Art in Gdansk

1 Doki Street, building #145B

80-958 Gdansk, Poland

Tel./fax: +48 58 320 44 46

http://www.documentaasafiction.blogspot.com


August 2-4, 2007
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