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Friendship
Island Open-Air Stage
The collaboration between photographers and musicians goes further...
On the 30th
and 3.08.03 the closing ceremony of the exhibition "From the
Nature of People" took place on the Museum Island in Potsdam.
Visual and acoustic art stepped in one dialogue. To my slide-projections
(Tunnel-pictures), improvised the group VORFLOORQUARTET.
For my
work as a photographer, it is essential for me to be moved. Bodily,
as well as spiritually. To this definitely belongs pursuing interdisciplinary
ways, to address a look at other art forms, and to become involved
with them. That means research and reflection on ones own work. Out
of this view of mine, such development processes take place.
Each
communication with other artists always goes along well for me,
as an experiment. In this case, we have allowed an audience to take
part. It is therefore natural that not only the makers, but also
the audience, can be irritated, bewondered or enthusiastic, and
that at the end all participants pose the question: has this experiment
worked? The makers form their conclusions. The audience has the
choice either to avoid an unusual performance and to torment themselves,
or to let in the unknown.
Free space for
experiments is becoming ever smaller and therefore more costly.
I welcome that the cultural office of Potsdam offers the opportunity
to artists to step into the open with their work, away from the
mainstream, with the knowledge that criticism is not the end, but
rather the beginning for new experiments.
Bettina Bormann
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