Ronald Kolb
Post-Exhibitionary Practice
“Swiss Special Program” at the Gwangju Biennale
The Swiss Special Program for the Gwangju Biennale 2024 orchestrates immersive participatory experiences featuring San Keller, Maya Minder, !Mediengruppe Bitnik and the Small Projects for Coming Communities. The three-day program is based on the artistic notation of scores to nurture transcultural discourse and transversal exchange with the audience and diverse communities. We use scores, known from music, poetry and visual arts – such as the “Event Scores” of Fluxus – as a guide or instruction for the realization and interpretation of activities that bring art, artists and its audience in a new relationsip in an active participatory way. The audience of the Gwangju Biennale will be part of the project’s communities.
The programme consists of a series of performative workshops over three days (3–5 October 2024): San Keller’s performantive research invites you to tell him about your routines, habits, rituals and superstitions related to sleep. Maya Minder will host a KitchenLab, experimenting with molecular transformation through culinary arts and let’s us eat together. !Mediengruppe Bitnik with Sakrowski & Baruch Gottlieb is organizing a concert with new band collaborations based on a workshop with 16 artists, creating 4 bands with their “4 x 4 random band generator”. The events will be framed by the “Small Projects for Coming Communities” – an ongoing research, workshop and exhibition project that aims to establish temporary and open community formations in a playful, artistic and performative way to create a space for negotiation and exchange, a contact zone. It houses a collection of scores that are activated and expanded with each exhibition.
The Swiss Special Program is curated by OnCurating (Zurich), in collaboration with the Embassy of Switzerland in Seoul for Gwangju Biennale 2024. Kindly supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.