For the first time this year, the annual programme for Kunstpavillon and Neue Galerie Innsbruck
is being announced with a specific theme. The annually changing theme will be developed on the basis of current discourses
and socio-political issues, which can be addressed artistically and curatorially in a local and a global context. At the same
time, it frames the scope of content for a programme period.
Exhibition projects for the year 2021/2022
can be submitted until 04.07.2021 via the online platform on the homepage of the Tyrolean Artists’ Association. Artists and
curators from all artistic disciplines, media and practices are eligible to participate.
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DANCING
AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives
me all the world and exiles me from it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
In a
present shaped by a pandemic, virulent socio-political issues and the big question of how we live together seem to have fallen
by the wayside. The nation state assumes the role of a crisis manager, while visions of a backward-looking future solidify
and historical amnesia sweeps across broad sections of society. But surely, isn’t this very moment one with the inherent potential
to accentuate speculative utopias and counter-narratives, to renegotiate ways of living together and empathy in a local and
global context? And to look for ways to integrate diversity on our planet into everyday considerations? How can our relationship
with the environment be shaped responsibly? And what ways of living together have proved/or could prove to be beneficial?
The
annual programme for the Kunstpavillon & Neue Galerie Innsbruck is entitled “Dancing at the Edge of the World” and aims
to address this current rift; devote itself to artistic & curatorial concepts that unfold imaginative worlds, approach
future other-worlds in a speculative manner, and tell stories that have been neglected by the canon of historiography. The
title is borrowed from an essay collection of the same name by Ursula K. Le Guin, in which the feminist science-fiction author
outlines alternative social and collective fields of possibility that are not anchored in a colonial, patriarchal and xenophobic
narrative structure.
“Dancing at the Edge of the World” is intended to serve as a framing of the
content and a heading for a programme period of the same name. From November 2021 to August 2022, five exhibition projects
will be realised under this leitmotif in the Kunstpavillon and the Neue Galerie Innsbruck. Concrete projects (solo or group
exhibitions), newly developed site-, context- and research-based projects, as well as existing ones may be submitted. There
will be no limits set on the artistic and curatorial formats and media used.
JURY
Margarethe
Drexel (artist, Innsbruck/Los Angeles)
Luigi Fassi (artistic director, MAN Contemporary Art Museum, Nuoro, Italy)
Petra
Poelzl (artistic director, Kunstpavillon & Neue Galerie Innsbruck, Innsbruck/Berlin)
