Saturday, 09.10.21 - 17:00
‘Zu Dritt’ / ‘In a Threesome’: three-hour performance for Schieflage – eine Haltung
Three levels, three situations, three hours.
Gisela Hochuli, Judith Huber und Ursula Scherrer will perform on three respective levels of the Haus zur Glocke. Each on her own yet still together. They connect to one another through noise, energy, thought, and, who knows, there may also be a short moment of visual contact.
The spectators cannot be everywhere at once. They will constantly miss something. Instead, we are asked to be where we are.
Artists of this exhibition project
VISUAL ARTS
Katharina Bürgin, Schaffhausen
Ray Hegelbach, Oslo/Frauenfeld
Leo Bettina Roost, Schaffhausen
Joseph Sappler, Düsselforf, D
Ursula Scherrer, NYC/Schaffhausen
Margrit Schlumpf-Portmann, Bauma
PERFORMANCE
Christine Bernhard, Überlingen, D
Gisela Hochuli, Ruppoldsried
Judith Huber, Emmenbrücke
Ursula Scherrer, NYC/Schaffhausen
Julie Semoroz, Genf
The exhibition title Schieflage – eine Haltung / Lopsidedness – a Position refers to on the one hand the literal – something material, which is out of balance – and, on the other hand in a figurative sense, to something (a situation, a relationship, finances, etc.) which has gone awry. The exhibition examines the artists’ engagement with the dynamics between their biographies and respective artistic attitudes. The interplay of production and artistic position in the public sphere is always a highly individual practice. This circumstance is brought alive.
The list of lopsidedness worldwide is endless. At this moment, it just so happens that the entire culture sector has come askew due to the Pandemic. Preserving oneself in imbalance as a state of living turns out to be a permanent condition. The balance we long for and work towards: it remains an exception and thus becomes a moment of happiness. Strategies to achieve these special moments are diverse and contradictory, they drive us, yet are no guarantee of arriving anywhere. Nevertheless, real change arises from movements that address “Schieflagen”, and try to adjust them.
The artists are experts in holding and bearing askew positions of all kinds. Our location, the Haus zur Glocke, offers an exceptionally fitting place for the theme with its crooked rooms.
The performances are also part of the exhibition. They’re about food for thought, expanding on and blowing up concepts, turning the conventional upside down. A performance as lopsidedness – it can enter unknown territories. Where does a performance start being performance? Is it irritation or poetry, an image, pictures hung together, or a movement, food or a work of art, sound, note, or rather noise.