Exposition

A consideration of projects from the FUNDBÜRO art research initiative (2015)

Cynthia Kros, Georges Pfruender

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FUNDBÜRO: a collective art research laboratory conducted between members of the postgraduate research institute Datdata associated with the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Lyon and Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg that explores notions of the meaning of loss and recovery for objects and subjects in transit. The exposition describes the progress of three selected projects within FUNDBÜRO, discussing the working methods and the interim outcomes. They are: 1. Field Notes: Cynthia Kros presents a selection of her field notes and contextualises the taking of field notes within theorising of the arts. The format allows playful interaction with thought processes in FUNDBÜRO as a theorising space. 2. 'Chop Shop': this project creatively engages with disassemblage/reassemblage in both regulated and unregulated ways. It replays the vernacular practice of chop shopping in the field of art. 3. 'I had a dream': this project builds on the principles of 'chop shopping' and explores the possibilities of extraction, retelling, and reperforming. As a further sequence of chop shop actions, we interrogate how dreams can become source material for a collective art/theory project. Our collaborative work allows us to create/produce at and with distance. As we examine our projects in the making and the ways in which they interact with each other, we gain an understanding of generative processes which are at the heart of modern 'urban life'.
typeresearch exposition
keywordscollective research in arts, lost and found, Fundbüro, work on distance, field notes, chop chop, dream as collective matter
date01/01/2015
published24/03/2015
last modified24/03/2015
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Wits School of Arts
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/79637/140231
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.79637
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue7.


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