Swap Space is a pilot project at KUG Graz that focuses on novel forms of collaborative artistic research in which otherness, difference and distance between the participants are central and are brought into a cohesive form via the concept of the spatial. Selected questions and previously sketched procedures are an important part of Swap Space and will be tested for their validity and feasibility in a time-limited experiment among six artists-researchers as a proof-of-concept. Thus, on the one hand, the pilot project provides important data and preliminary results, sets the course and ensures that the future project design is viable. On the other hand, Swap Space takes up new decisive impulses for thought - such as the concept of contact - the elaboration of which aims to determine the form of a multi-year research project.

Catalogue

Bridging between what happened during the swap space pilot and what we were preparing for the simularr artistic research project, the catalogue Swap Spaces assembles various views, analyses and essays.

The book features contributions by Nayarí Castillo, Shane Finan, Franziska Hederer, Jackie Karuti, Alisa Kobzar, Johanna Lettmayer, Consuelo Méndez, Daniele Pozzi, Hanns Holger Rutz, as well as selected visual materials and transcriptions from the pilot. The book is published by Reagenz Verlag Graz (ISBN: 978-3-9504622-5-8), in a small edition of 250 copies with individual covers.

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