About the TOUR

Those who stay behind will be left behind
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Tour 2012/2013
A select group of six young international artists has currently loaded the high-cube container with their materials and is touring with us. As part of our tour, we will visit at least four art associations in Germany and temporarily take them over and use them for our performances. The contents of the container form the basis from which we develop a setting in relation to the spaces provided by the art associations. There is the possibility of expanding the defined parameters during the tour to include site-specific actions and materials.
The selection of artists represents as broad a field as possible of different artistic approaches in terms of content and form. The works that accompany us have an autonomous character in the broadest sense.

The four art associations (Langenhagen, Leipzig, Heidelberg, and Westwendischer Kunstverein) each offer new qualities and challenges for our undertaking due to their geographical location, architecture, and management.Just as we as an art association have to deal with different forms of organization and communication at each stop, the artists and their works will also reexamine each time what connections arise through the differentcontexts, spaces, and constellations and how the individual functions within the collective.

It is our aim to use our takeover strategy within the cultural sector of the art association landscape to create a temporary space in which free work is possible, reserving the right to openness. Contrary to manycurrent exhibition concepts, whose results are decided and predictable in advance, we want to try to find ways, on site and on the road, to develop results from the resources available to us.
The container, which serves as a black box/tachograph and darkroom, contains documentation material from the trip in addition to the bar and is used at regular intervals to host a supplementary live program. An accompanying booklet will be published for each of the exhibitions.
At the stops along our journey, including the “Five Thousand Generations of Birds” festival in Fitjar, Norway, the Plateau at the Kunsthalle Hamburg, and Emscherkunst in Essen, the functionality of the container has been and will continue to be expanded. It serves as a stage, cinema, bar, library, and thus also as amediator for the structures and backgrounds of artistic creation processes, as well as a sounding board for sound installations.

We refuse to act as intermediaries in the traditional sense, as we do not wish to prescribe or offer any single interpretation. Instead, we strive to create as much space as possible for direct contact with artists and initiators through our activities, and to establish a variety of approaches and perspectives for and on contemporary art.