Kasseler KunstVereinsHeim - Program September - Kuhn/Meszmer/Müller
Friday, September 7, 2007, 8 p.m.
Kuhn/Meszmer/Müller (CH)
"Eine Geographie des Unerklärlichen"
Performative Lecture
It is the job of the geographer to record the world graphically. He reduces dimensions and creates clarity. In the performative lecture “ Eine Geographie des Unerklärlichen“ three unsystematic researchers embark upon the search for order in a thoroughly confusing area. Numerous quotations from literature, film, and pop music allow this lecture to pick up where the last quest of the three artists for permanent happiness left off, and this time they attempt no less than the impossible: to explain the inexplicable.
“Eine Geographie des Unerklärlichen“ allows many approaches. Of course, it is all about faith and science from the very beginning, but then touches upon mysteries and miracles, love and, naturally, death, experience and realization, the sinister and the enigmatic, and, in connection with fear, also the esoteric and last, but not least, geography. Thrown in for good measure are: a journey in time, a sheep in someone's head, three super heroes, a white continent, a falling whale, the real world and God himself, with the answer to the question: “Why are we here?”
Matthias Kuhn, born in 1963, lives and works in St. Gallen and Zürich/Switzerland.
Alexander Meszmer, born in Lindenberg in 1968, studied art history, philosophy, art, educational sciences, and German language and literature at the University/Gesamthochschule Kassel. Alexander Meszmer lives and works in Pfyn/Switzerland.
Reto Müller, born in Heiden/Switzerland in 1974, lives and works in Pfyn/Switzerland.
Curator: Bernhard Balkenhol
