Chain of Fools
Chain of Fools / 2010
Project of the Class for Intermedia, Room 2.23a
This year’s contribution to the Rundgang from the Intermedia Class focused on communication and transfer of knowledge. Based on a associative chain of potential connections, the title “Chain of Fools” also relates to the concept, having been taken from a song by Aretha Franklin in 1968. Of particular interest to the project is the common practice of the associative exchange of information and content, which is practised in the teaching of art and in the class work and is the condition for the realisation of individual artworks during the course of study.
In the foreground is not the final work, rather the work on the idea itself, likewise the communicated word, as well as the process and the method of development. We are especially interested in visualising how the transfer of information influences the work of individuals, how the rivers of communication stimulate the system “class” and in which of the sedimented art works an echo of discursive debate can be found.
exhibition view
In order to realise the project a method was developed, which was based on the principle of a chain reaction. In doing so the original idea of a work acted as the inspiration of the following. After a three month process a chronologically legible team-work was created out of every individual idea.
The abstraction of the communicated ideas and the potential diversity of its execution leave a lot of blank space for the individuals in terms of realisation, and offer room for thought, understanding and misunderstanding, deviation and variation. “Thoughts” by which associative reactions of individual students assemble together like the links of a chain.
Photos by Sebastian Schröder, Conny Bengsch and the artists
InSalataMista / 2010
Culinary Project of the Class for Intermedia, 2. Floor East-Wing
Easy and delightful at the end of the associative chain, there is a place where one can recover from the strenuous Rundgang visit, a small italian Ristorantino called “InSalataMista”: It is central and easy to reach, whether in afternoon for an almond cake with espresso or in the evening for a minestrone and a glass of red wine, the counter offers something for every palate. A detour to InSalataMista invites you to take a Rundgang in the italian cuisine.
Concept & Coordination: Julia Krause, Marlene Morgenstern, Franziska Jyrch
The InSalataMista-Project was sponsored by Biomare (Organic shop) and by Mangiare (Italian food store) in Leipzig.
Photos by Sebastian Schröder, Conny Bengsch, Marlene Morgenstern
Participating Artists
Alken, Franz Bengsch, Cornelia Bernardini, Viviana Alba D’Urbano Einvald, Meta B. Fiallo Montero, Guillermo Figuccio, Valerio Fischer, Sabine Förster, Eva B. Fu, Ya-Wen Gruber, Bernhard Held, Marcus Hurtig, Stefan Jyrch, Franziska Kammer, Reiko Kasper, Leonore Krause, Julia Marek, Stephanie Meinert, Franziska Morgenstern, Marlene Nemecky, AlexandraNeuhäuser, Nadine Petzold, Georg Schinkel, Björn Schröder, Sebastian Sing, Juli Vivanco Gutierrez, Diego Waniek, Angelika Weinert, Carolin