Spatial interventions are the result of an intensive engagement by established and emerging artists with the urban open spaces of a former baking factory that are currently under construction. In its spatial aesthetics, the soiled, gloomy and historically charged architecture triggers deep fascination and at the same time understands itself as a challenge for the performance. The site of the Konsum Genossenschaft baking factory built by Carl Moritz in Düsseldorf in 1910 has been the subject of ongoing subcultural overwriting since its closure in 1973. In addition to a well-known discotheque for rent, the premises housed a bar of the Moto-Clan Düsseldorf, complete with shooting range and various other accumulated makeshifts and curiosities of human passions.
The play with forces and resistance runs as a red line through the works and theses of the artists whose coming together evokes the exhibition Sublime and Submission. In translation, submission means both submissiveness (human obedience) and submission in the sense of a design. The artists approach this twofold anchoring of the term with (often elaborately staged) use of their bodies and authorship in expansive interventions and sculptural gestures. The fetish character that seems to permeate the resulting works can also be understood as a consequence of this movement of the artist away from the object in the course of dis- and submission.
The work of the dancer and choreographer Yukio Suzuki is about movement in the literal sense. In his performance "EVANESCERE" (Latin: disappear), Suzuki's supple body reveals ever-changing intentions that seem to follow inner, organic impulses of their own accord. Released from his body, Suzuki's physical energy fills the entire space.
Kay Heymer will give an introduction at the exhibition opening and there will be music by Bass Jog, the project of the two Sonig artists DJ Elephant Power and F.X.Randomiz. For several years now, the two have regularly holed up in secret Brussels basement studios to work on their very own interpretation of danceable music. We are looking forward to energetic sounds and an exciting show!

Exhibition catalogue

"In order to submit, I have to design (myself)."

The play with forces and resistances runs as a red line through the works and
theses of the artists Yukako Ando, Anja Ciupka, Dan Dryer, Notburga Karl, Christian
Keinstar and Thomas Trinkl. The exhibition SUBLIME AND SUBMISSION brought together
their works in the historically charged architecture of a former baking factory.
Submission in translation means both submissiveness (human obedience) and
submission in the sense of a design. The artists approached this twofold anchoring of the term
with often elaborately staged use of their bodies
and their authorship in expansive interventions and sculptural gestures.

In addition to numerous illustrations, the publication contains texts and statements by Raetri Guga, Sonja Lau Abraham and interviews with the artists in the exhibition: Notburga Karl, Yukako Ando, Christian Keinstar, Dan Dryer, Anja Ciupka and Thomas Trinkl.

Length: 40 pages, with various coloured illustrations, 19.8 x 28 cm
ISBN-No.: 978-3-95763-251-7 Price: 10 Euro. 

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