And is there beauty in democratic processes? are the two questions, we asked 111 Swiss politicians in a letter, waiting for answers now. A bit more than one week after we sent out the first letters, we are still waiting for the first ideas in our mailbox. What will our politicians tell us? or will…
In october/november club désirer will be a guest @ Gasthaus zum Bären/Museum Bärengasse, taking part in this project: Unsettling the Setting. Playing, Plying, Squatting // Operating, Owning, Occupying ––– or rather? Ideas, strategies, suggestions, concepts for an (im)possible / (un)bearable exhibition situation, by: Alain Jenzer, Allan Siegel, Alex Meszmer and Reto Müller, André Bideau,…
We cordially invite you to Transitory Museum at Pfyns summer week! We will show a view into our museums collection, a flashback on the democratic art weeks and the ‚Pfyn – cultural capital of Switzerland 2011-12 times and a prospect on actual and future museums projects. Special guest: club désirer – in search of…
April 12th 2014 as a finish for the week of action in Bologna, we did a beautiful demonstration in Via Indipendenza in Bologna. For the weather forecast was really bad, we did a short and small version – an extended version is intended to be made soon.
Reenacting Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedos painting Il Quarto Stato. Here is the video:
Is Democracy beautiful? Can we find beauty in democratic processes? Do you think that it is completely foolish to search for democratic beauty? Or do you know of beautiful moments, times, events or objects that are related to democracy? Then tell us! Click on the Poll or leave a comment!
Sunday 6th of April 45 volunteers gathered for reenacting Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedos painting Il Quarto Stato in Studio Cloud 4 (the original picture shows 58 persons). We want to thank all participants and especially Stefano Stagni our photographer for exciting discussions of different forms and possibilities of a contemporary version of Pellizzas…
Today we could install the first set of Beuys photos collected within the first days of the exhibition: There is more to come!
Today we invited the people from Bologna to participate in reenacting ‚Il quarto Stato‘ – a picture painted by Italian artist Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo in 1901. Our curators Stefano W. Pasquini, Stefano Stagni and Paolo Frascaroli had been busy inviting people to join us today and we got a small crowd together. We decided on…
