Linda Valerie Ewert & Birte Heier
Linda Valerie Ewert (she, her, Lint) is a freelance art researcher, -worker and -writer on contemporary art in a variety of formats. Lint’s interests lie in the accessibility and use of art for various counter hegemonic struggles or in feminist writing/autotheory.
Birte Heier's practice wavers between theory and practice, between curating, cultural education and organization. Together with Sebastian Stein, Heier (all pronouns) has been co-director of Kunstverein Langenhagen since 2023.
then and there \I/ looking into queer time(s)
In our time at thealit we will think, research, make and host in a processual way. In a star-shaped expansion of the participants, a pool of stories, images or thoughts will be processed and made visible.
We want to reflect on the initial conditions that influence and constantly shape work in art and culture. In this way, we move from the private to the social, from our own bodies to social issues
We want to reflect on the initial conditions that influence and constantly shape work in art and culture. In this way, we move from the private to the social, from our own bodies to social issues and back again. For it is not uncommon for critical feminist education to have contributed to queer liberation, to perceive one's own temporality, to re-read the past and to queerulate it as well as the present. We will conduct research on QueerTime, on situatedness ... Sensing and using the (queer) body in crisis-ridden capitalism, reorganizing it.
Questioning the possession and consumption of bodies, time, things, relationships, digital realities or internalized project logics. We could ask ourselves what identity politics, cancelling, solidarity or appropriation mean and do to us in this context.
In doing so, we practice being together, working together artistically as curators, talking, inviting, practicing, reorganizing, un-learning, stepping out, attacking and refusing - and finding out what the differences are between these modes and concepts. To this end, we have imagined a zine that could be created on site and also in interaction with the space.
We will invite people, whose take on our questions interests us and who will send us a response in a form of their choice. The connections here can be very personal and unprofessional, and can concern one person. We use this transparent, subjective selection of perspectives to question authority in the art world and to reveal that curators never research in a vacuum (aka white cube), but have a 'tangible body'. That they are not only shaped by academized people and forms of communication such as art, publications and lectures, but also by their neighbour or the kiosk owner around the corner.
We will invite people, whose take on our questions interests us and who will send us a response in a form of their choice. The connections here can be very personal and unprofessional, and can concern one person. We use this transparent, subjective selection of perspectives to question authority in the art world and to reveal that curators never research in a vacuum (aka white cube), but have a 'tangible body'. That they are not only shaped by academized people and forms of communication such as art, publications and lectures, but also by their neighbour or the kiosk owner around the corner.
These correspondences serve as the starting material for an intensive examination and for further research. We look forward to the content and evenings of community that will gradually emerge, some of which will fill the zine, some of which will fizzle out.
