SPECIAL GUIDED TOURS FOR ART MUSEUMS
With EMANCIPATION OF WONDER, the discourse of art, often perceived as elitist and inaccessible aims to be expanded to include deliberately non-academic, spontaneous codes.
As a strategy, the artists record the comments and interpretations of children between the ages of 6 and 8 while they visit together the exhibition. From the resulting documentation material of the children, Navaridas & Deutinger develop museum tours for adults that will be performed by actors acting as art mediators. The commentaries on works of art are thus also to be made tangible as performative art.
In the original language of eight-year-olds, but without the polite childish scheme, the tour led by Pia Hierzegger offers an examination of art that is not obscured by art-historical tidbits of knowledge, and spatial explorations far beyond the well-behaved pacing of the pictures. Entertaining, eye-opening, very fantastic.
Kleine Zeitung, Ute Baumhackl, 31/10/2020
It feels unbelievably good that thoughts and reactions, which one culture-consciously concealed, are now unabashedly presented on a verbal plate.
tanz.at, Eveline Koberg, 2/11/2020
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Concept & Performance_ |
Marta Navaridas, Alex Deutinger |
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Performers |
Pia Hierzegger, Frans Poelstra, Monika Klengel |
| Cameras_ | Ulrich Reiterer and Marta Navaridas |
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Video editor_ |
Ulrich Reiterer |
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Costumes_ |
Marta Navaridas |
| Thanks to_ | Monika Holzer-Kernbichler and Markus Waitschacher |
| Production Manager_ | Sophie Schmeiser / Mollusca productions |
| Production_ | Performanceinitiative 22 |
| With the support of_ |
Kunstvermittlung Neue Galerie Graz, Universal Museum Johaneum, Praxisvolksschule der Pädagogischen Hochschule Steiermark, Stadt Graz Kultur, Kultur Land Steiermark, Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport |
| Special thanks_ |
To the children who visited the exhibition with us and contributed to the creation of these guides |
