Fig.2: Studies of a Collection and Fig. 3: I don’t know what to say are part of a new programme of events at DRAF. This programme comprises an ongoing series of ‘figures’ to explore how knowledge can be co-produced and shared through innovative formats of talks, conferences, research projects or book presentations.
Fig.2: Studies of a Collection and Fig. 3: I don’t know what to say are two simultaneous projects with interventions by Noah Angell, Brandon La Belle, Stefan Brüggemann, Ruth Buchanan, David Raymond Conroy, Patrick Coyle, Kelly Large, Ghislaine Leung, Claire Nichols and David Garner, Sally O’Reilly, and Mark Selby and works by Fionna Banner, Karla Black, Cyprien Gaillard, Dora García, Marine Hugonnier, Lothar Hempel, Donald Moffett, Roman Ondak, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel.
Fig.2: Studies of a Collection is a short self-reflective project, featuring several artworks from the David and Indrė Roberts Collection and archival materials associated with the works. Displaying artworks that have been lent to other spaces, the collection will be opened-up and consider how the collection has been used. Guests have been invited to activate and freely interpret artworks and archival material for their own work, through different methodological approaches. Invited guests include David Raymond Conroy, Ruth Buchanan, Ghislaine Leung, Sally O’Reilly.
Fig. 3: I don’t know what to say will introduce a series of artistic interventions that engage with phatic language (words used for social interactions) in a gallery space. The phatic function, as a concept, designates speech actions that are not intended to transmit information but carry a social goal: such as greeting rituals or chitchat. Intervening and questioning the meaning of these seemingly insignificant utterances, the invited artists intervene with communicative gestures to produce new meanings. Taking as its setting the Fig.2: Studies of a Collection display, the project will reconsider the private view, casual conversations, the press release and other aspects of social etiquette to create awareness of art’s physical and social environments. The invited artists are Noah Angell, Brandon La Belle, Stefan Brüggemann, Patrick Coyle, Kelly Large, Claire Nichols and David Garner, Mark Selby. This project is curated by Stefanie Hirsch and Anca Rujoiu.
