FLURFUNKER:INNEN
HOW TO SPEAK THE CORRIDOR
für / for
Kunsthalle Osnabrück
https://kunsthalle.osnabrueck.de/de
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Verortungen / Localities:
Kreuzgang, Korridor / Cloister, Corridor
der / of Kunsthalle Osnabrück
6.11.2021 - 27.2.2022
und / and
Webseite / Website
https://flurfunkerinnen.org/
Gestaltung und Programmierung / Design and Coding: Anna Cairns
Gefördert durch das Berliner Förderprogramm Künstlerische Forschung/gkfd | Supported by Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme/gkfd:
https://kuenstlerischeforschung.berlin/stipendiatinnen/katrin-mayer/
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Materialien / Materials
Spiegelfliesen / mirror tiles, blaue Lampen - und Fensterfolie / blue foil for windows and lamps, plakatierte Plotts / pasted printouts
Audiospuren / Audio Files
Sprecherin / Speaker: Line Skywalker Karlström
Aufnahme / Recording, Sounddesign: Alexander Bornschein
Video
Kamera und Schnitt / Camera and Editing: Silke Briel
mit Beteiligung von / with appearance of: Anne Haunhorst, Anna Jehle, Katrin Mayer, Monika Potaczek, Juliane Schickedanz, Christel Schulte, Josef Wegmann
vollständiges Impressum / complete Imprint
@ FUNK:
https://flurfunkerinnen.org/
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For her site-specific work, artist Katrin Mayer often uses archival research and engages with local histories in order to reflect and question the historicity of a place in the present. Invited to exhibit at Kunsthalle Osnabrück, which used to be a monastery built around 1300, she thematized the change of the former cloister to the corridor of today’s Kunsthalle, that is now led by two queer-feminist directors.
Formerly used for procession and praying, it is now an exhibition site and a place for informal encounters and exchanges between staff and visitors. A place that connects and activates the institution. The exposed (internet-) cables under the ceiling also execute and visualize this function on a medial level, especially during the pandemic.
Katrin Mayer created a site-specific, feminist texture, consisting of two "corridors": One on site in Osnabrück and an extending one on the internet.
The work travels back to the Middle Ages and interweaves Christine de Pizan's utopian vision
of a "City of Ladies", Hildegard von Bingen's invented secret language "Lingua Ignota", images of the stonemason Sabina von Steinbach building a church, with many materials of the past and present situation of the institution. One visual track and four audio tracks were created, that associate an alternative, feminist-speculative herstoriography of the cloister.
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Installationsansichten / Installation views @ Kreuzgang, Korridor / Cloister, Corridor:
Photos: Lucie Marsmann, Friso Gentsch
