Exhibition Project "The Goverment"
The exhibition project "The Government" is devoted to the ways modern governing structures function based on the analyses of power developed by Michel Foucault in the 70s. In this connection the conglomerate of institutions and practices, by means of which people are controlled, is what is meant by "government".
An exhibition about the way modern power functions therefore demands per se liberation from the commonly practised curatoric "corset". Therefore in the art room of the University of Lüneburg students of the Faculty of Applied Cultural Sciences under the leadership of Roger M. Buergel have undertaken the task of conveying to their fellow students on campus in a lasting way the newly developed works of various artists in correspondence on this subject as an aesthetic text. This means that the exhibition as a "tableau vivant" sets works of art in varying relationship to each other and consequently evokes a whole host of different sorts of reading.
Alice Creischer: "L' atelier de la peintrice"
Therefore this project aims at establishing a comprehension and vision of art which can constantly be re-sharpened by creating a "work in progress", in order to capture the imbalance between art and politics.The exhibition "The Government" starts on 6.11.2003 in Lüneburg and will be continued in changing stages in Lüneburg, Barcelona and Rotterdam until the end of 2005. The perennial project "The Government" will end with its final symposium at the Kunstraum of the University of Lüneburg in January 2006.
Project framework: November, 2003 until January 2006
Projekt venue: University of Lüneburg
Project partner: Universität Lüneburg, Project manager: Roger M. Buergel
