Between the 2nd and 5th of September Fabrica and its selected "testbed" digital project, will be searched and questioned with art blackhole in mind. While the search is taking place, the public, anyone is welcome to link-up, contribute, critique, etc. either in person or via #artblkhole.
The following attempts to describe the concepts, backgrounds and possible way to investigate & test how Fabrica‘s existence as an art related space, can be used and imagined at times of mass internet based networking. Internet networking, has affected how we can imagine the gallery because the culture of artefact exchanges is changes the significance of reference-points/contexts. These changes, by relying on negative rather than anti-network based affirmation & allowing an abundance of times, places and frequencies to experience artistic fruits-of-practice, alters the nature of the traditional art gallery from a place that focuses on art to that where art might Be Not at.
In other words, the gallery can now be imagined as an art blackhole – an artless timespace – where art can not live. The search imagines and attempts to question How to do art visavie this negative of the No. Instead of antiart based practices, with a blackhole we can imagine two negatives the nonart, (practices that do not rely on their artefacts to Be) & a blackhole of artno (practices that consume & disintegrate art). The
search imagines the gallery and its space as the location where art no is at. Through focusing shows on objects, projects, processes, materials and other exhibited outcomes in the gallery are being disintegrated from
art, exhibits become artno. Hence exhibiting the effects, the ripples of practices rather than a space critical sharing of the practices themselves.
In that sense, the art practice is left right outside the gallery, turning galleries into art blackholes. Therefore the search will use the geographical location of fabrica as well as it’s sociocultural one.
The search will be presented at International Association of Art Critics conference in Kosice, Slovakia towards the end of September.
