Ronald Kolb
Post-Exhibitionary Practice

https://www.comingcommunities.org

Ongoing exhibitionary project based on the web platform with a collection of artistic scores
Initiated by Ronald Kolb & Dorothee Richter

The first iteration with an exhibition, a symposium and a series of workshops was presented at Hospitalhof Stuttgart and Katholisches Bildungswerk Stuttgart,
12 May–15 June 2019.

The initial participants included Discoteca Flaming Star, Bill Dietz, Eva Dörr, Jeanne von Heeswijk, Sabrina Karl, Florian Model and Anike Joyce Sadiq, among others, and ended up in an exhibition with scores on display by Chloë Bass, Bill Dietz, Hidden Institute, Discoteca Flaming Star, San Keller, Neue Dringlichkeit, Robert Blatt, Ceyda Oskay, Christine Ellison, Rachel Garfield, Zoncy, Jumzang Dai, Johanna Bruckner, Michael Leung, Kacey Wong, Belle Phromchanya, Eva Dörr, Tilman Kugler, Meitong Chen & Claudia Baena, Anastasia Chaguidouline, Maya Bamberger & Ronny Koren, Eveline Mathis, Gozde Filinta & Camille Regli, Pongpan Suriyapat, Domenico Roberti, Jan Sandberg, Eriko Miyata, Ishita Chakraborty and works by Bill Dietz, Florian Model, Sabrina Karl, Anike Joyce Sadiq, Kacey Wong, Andreina Isea, Axel Crettenand and FOA-FLUX with Gian Martins and Nina Shapiro.

The opening of the exhibition was organised as a 24-hour event at the Hospitalhof Stuttgart with lectures and performances by Grant Kester, Elke Krasny, Sabih Ahmed, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Tine de Moor and Katalin Erdödi.

Small Projects for Coming Communities – initiated by Dorothee Richter and Ronald Kolb in March 2018 – is an ongoing research, workshop and exhibition project that aims to establish communal formations in a playful, artistic and performative way to create a space for negotiation and exchange, a contact zone. It does this through the means of the contemporary art practice of so-called scores. The scores collected in the initial workshop phase of this project and in the course of ongoing workshops and events usually touch on situations of everyday life and vary in format and scope: some may simply evoke thoughts and be poetical in nature,[1] others call for performative, literary, musical and artistic action and lead to acts of a performance,[2] while some give instructions for exercises and group activities,[3] and the boldest suggest establishing collaborative projects.[4]

[1] See, for example, the score “empathy” by artist Robert Blatt, https://www.comingcommunities.org/en/score/empathy/.

[2] For example, the score “Experiments in Joy”by artist Chloë Bass creates a direct exchange. It is an artistic instruction to create an emotional moment of joy between two people by following six steps. I often use the score in workshops, since it vividly creates an instant connection between the participants and breaks the ice.
See: https://www.comingcommunities.org/en/score/experiments-in-joy/

[3] For example, the score “A Syncretized Circle” by the artist Zoncy, https://www.comingcommunities.org/en/score/a-syncretized-circle/.

[4] For example, the score “Diversity Dinner” by Anastasia Chaguidouline, https://www.comingcommunities.org/en/score/score-diversity-dinner/.