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Christian Jankowski: “contemporary art needs a new audience”
For the first time, an artist of the European art biennial Manifesta – of the German Christian Jankowski. He would like to open the art for ideas from the outside. What he meant by that, he says in a DW Interview.
DW: Mr. Jankowski, what it needs is a Manifesta in times of competing art events such as Documenta or Venice Biennale of art, in times of the Museum boom and thriving global cultural exchange?
Christian Jankowski: I think there is never enough of it. Until now it seems not so that the people would be as oversaturated. More important is whether it is interesting. And if it is interesting, it is worth to go. And I hope that we have managed to do here.
You are the artistic Director and also an artist himself – a first for a Manifesta. “What People do for Money”, under this Motto, you will have the eleventh edition in Zurich. What is your idea?
It might sound a bit morally – “What Poeple do for Money”. But for me, it is a paraphrase. Most of the people do for money, a job, any Job. I am interested in: What are these different perspectives, the technical jargon can know, is also the subject, the art of doing Good? The interpretations, the concepts and the words used in the art, are its own jargon, sometimes to the phrase. The use of any other type. Words to use as forms. In this respect, I hope to have surprising Connections from these different worlds in their effect on art.
Manifesta 11 Curator Christian Jankowski
And what can do the job of art?
When I hear talk, for example, someone who works in a sewage treatment plant, about what you can filter from the art out, then other images come to me fully-in the sense, as when an art historian told me.
One of the 30 Manifesta artists that you have invited to Zurich, Michel Houellebeck, a French writer who has recently designed with his book, “submission,” a Muslim society visions. How does he fit into your concept?
Michel fits well in my concept. He is on an interface. During my research I have found that he also makes photos. This career change from writer to visual artist is an interesting interface, I am myself between curator and artist.
Houellebeck under a public health check runs through its host, a physician. Exactly how art is created?
The art of Michel is that he undergoes a medical check-up and to images of one’s own body works. On the proposal of Houellebeck I had a great discussion in the hospital. There, she said all of a sudden, because they thought it was not art that wants to exhibit the artist. In the meantime, everything is back in the green.
His documents are now available en mass from duplicated in the entrance foyer of the Krankenkauses. Someone who knows no art, and there goes, this patient’s name recognizes, you may think, ‘crap here?’ ‘Do you thus with my private papers?’ Houellebecks work plays with the privacy of disease and of the body. Health insurance check-up of your own body first before you commit to a insurance with the customer. Such topics, that there swing in this work.
Snack will be stalls to “Imbissies”, where a star chef offers delicacies that are usually reserved for diplomats. What is this is the art potential?
Thus, similar to art or money every tackle and is a unifying Element that brings together food things. Even if people leave their homeland for various reasons, convey snacks very often, because they instill a culinary culture. Whether it’s in the Gyros or in the Pizza, in particular, a lot of Information. The power of the artist John Arnold as his Own in his project that he’s working with a star cooking together and researched, which the state banquets in the past. Switzerland as a neutral site was important in many respects for negotiations between Nations. Arnold invites about at the Snack bar ‘Riviera” to a state Banquet re-enactment (reenactment. Note.d.R.) a, with a mixture of snack food and gourmet cuisine. Granted this is a difficult project, because, of course, the snacks have to their core audience. The artistic concept is a mixture of “High and Low”, this leads to new Connections.
The art needs to expand their target group is in need of a new, far more art distant audience?
Yes, if it helps, the perspectives of very different people to bring together, especially of people who have not even bothered to art.
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Christian Jankowski, Born in 1968, is a German conceptual and action artists. His video installation, and his staging of the role play dealing with the relationship between artists, art institutions, the media and the society. This year, he is head of the art biennial Manifesta 11 in back to page top.