The exhibition at Kuenstlerhaus Stuttgart, Skeptical
Thoughts on Love, departs from artistic perspectives that conjecture
multiple forms of attachment, intimacy, and obsession. Methodologically
speaking, it is inspired from the physical reality, potential impact
and transformative power of love. The exhibition speculates on the potentiality
of love as if it is the only possible form of resistance for
cognitive/collective revolution in our contemporary solitude, demands silence
as a conceptual tool to deal with human relationships and art works, and
proposes to operate as a testing ground for introspection, self-analysis and
self-reflection.
Participating artists:
Natalie Czech, Keren Cytter, Mariechen Danz, Leyla Gediz,
Judith Hopf, Matthias Megyeri, Henrik Olesen, Christodoulos Panayiotou,
Johannes Paul Raether, Sophie Reinhold, Emily Roysdon, Eva Schmeckenbecher,
Jake Yuzna and Adbusters
The show ends with the screening and discussion of Jake
Yuzna's film Open (2010). Open generates a strong vision, and contemporary panorama of
how gender, sexuality and identity transform through diverse forms of love,
attachment and intimacy. It is the first American film to win the Teddy Jury
Prize at the Teddy Award (Premier: Berlin Film Festival in 2010). The film also
won Best Narrative Film at the TLV Festival in Tel Aviv Israel, Best
Performance at Newfest, as well as having the Jake Yuzna named a Four in Focus
filmmaker at Outfest. Much of the film was inspired by the artist and musician
Genesis P-Orridge, who served as creative consultant on the film and an
interview with her made by Yuzna has been shown as part of the
installation at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.
Cuneyt
Cakirlar gives an introductory talk on the film and moderates the
post-screening discussion with the curator of the show Adnan Yıldız on 30 March 2014.
