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MANHATTAN MARXISM / WOOL WORKS / EXPLOITATION
STRANGE TEACHING / WOOL WORKS / EXPLOITATION
a project developed for PANORAMA BOA VISTA, Porto, Portugal, March 2017
FROM PRESS RELEASE:
Rainer Ganahl - Manhattan Marxism / Wool Works / Exploitation / Strange Teaching / Wool Works / Exploitation - Opening Wednesday, Apr 12, 10pm
In this exhibition, Rainer Ganahl combines his projects Manhattan Marxism and Strange Teaching, emphasizing the aspect of exploitation.
Ganahl, a professor of fine art, calls his art education Strange Teaching, an educational extravaganza, and invites his and other teachers' students to participate in his art endeavors. A variety of strange teaching projects that have so far taken place include squatting in a dilapidated department store in Leipzig, a lecture and studio visit marathon in New York City, and now a sweat shop production here in Porto. To learn more about Strange Teaching click here.
Manhattan Marxism has previously taken place at Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (2012), White Columns, New York (2013), and De Vleshaal, Middelburg (2014). Ganahl is interested in Karl Marx as a theoretician and as a metaphor for a more just world. He is interested in convivial spaces to be shared with others.
His guiding idea for the Porto edition of Manhattan Marxism consists of working with wool in a preindustrial way. The students spin, make felt and produce works from scratch that compare and compete with five machine-knitted pieces that are made possible with the help of STOLLs knitting computers. The work process is documented and quantified. Thus, it is meant to raise consciousness about the manifold complicated hidden production processes that enter the consumer products we purchase at department stores for little money. Like a Do It Yourself (Marxian) superstructure, a series of guest lectures with visiting local and international artists and critics, as well a presentation by the participating students, accompany the hard and restless labor of the unpaid work program.
Ganahl's exhibition is complemented with a separate show of works by the selection of students from the AbK-Stuttgart and FBAU Porto who volunteered to be "exploited" by the artist.
Participating students: Marta Arcanio, Juliana Boller, Carmen Velert Castellanos, Josephine Ducat, Leila Dendic, Elmar Mellert, Ruxin Lui, Grecia Paola, Soraia Pinheiro, Gil Raro, Clara Silva, Rintaro Takahashi.
Thanks to the participating institutions in Stuttgart and Porto, and to the local coordinator Rute Rosas. Thanks also to STOLL, Reutlingen
With special support of the EXPLOITED students of the art accademie Porto, Professor Rute Rosas, and everybody who has helped me as well as the EXPOLITED studetns of the academuy of fine arts Stuttgart. Thanks also to Pedro Wirz and Raphael Linsi.
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THE FINAL EXHIBTION - RAINER GANAHL -- see below
STRANGE TEACHING / WOOL WORKS / EXPOITATION - THE PROCESS
STRANGE TEACHING / SCHONE AUSSICHT / BOA VISTA - EXHBITION OF PARTICIPATING" EXPLOITED" STUDENTS
THE FINAL EXHIBTION - RAINER GANAHL
STRANGE TEACHING / SCHONE AUSSICHT / BOA VISTA - EXHBITION OF PARTICIPATING" EXPLOITED" STUDENTS
STRANGE TEACHING / WOOL WORKS / EXPOITATION
PREPARATION OF WOOL - FROM THE SHEEP = WASHING
DISCUSSION OF THE PROJECT WITH STUDETNS AT PANORAMA BOA VISTA ' s lecture hall
VISITING THE GALLERY THE STUDENTS WILL PRESENT THEIR PERSONAL ART
THE EXHIBTION SPACE OF PANORAMA BOA VISTA
the exhibition space is also used to house 5 students from Stuttgart
THE BIGNNING OF THE SPINNING AND FELT MAKING PROCESS AT FBAUP
day 1 (7 hours of work)
the production of one day spinning of the most productive student
day 2 (6 hours of work)
public talk about the project at the art academy (fbaup)
day 3 -saturday april 8, 2017 (art school is closed, hence we work at Panorama Boa Vista) - approx. 8 hours , some more some less
day 4 -sunday april 7, 2017
Professional visitors from LONDON:
Dan Coopey, How to be an artist, Panorama Bona Vista Lecture Hall, April 9, 2017
Oliver Basciano, How to be a critic, Panorama Boa Vista Lecture Hall, April 9, 2017
back to work / or a nap or two
Evening lecture in Seminar room 1
Pedro Wirz, How to become an artist, Panorama Boa Vista Lecture Hall, April 9, 2017
more days to go ....
Day 5, Monday
this is our German delegation here in Porto with our embassador from tokyo. Ruxin prefered to be represented by the lady in stone.
Evening lecture in Seminar room 1
Silvestre Pestana, How to be an artist during Portuguese Fashism, Panorama Boa Vistal, April 10, 2017
Day 6, Tueday
Mauro Cerquiera, Studio vidist
Gil working his wool still at around 1 am and Marta playing with an inflatable balloon are waiting for late night dinner prepared by Elmar after midnight studio visit.
Day 7, Wednesday - opening at 10 PM
Day 8, Thursday
Raphael Linsi, How to become an artist, Panorama Boa Vistal, April 13, 2017
Rainer Ganahl
MANHATTAN MARXISM / WOOL WORKS / EXPLOITATION
STRANGE TEACHING / WOOL WORKS /EXPLOITATION
wool works
made by Riuxin Liu in 20 hours
150 x 110 CM
computereized stiching. MMWW , not yet on stretcher THANKS TO COMPUTERIZED STITCHING BY STOLL , STUTTGART
LECTURES BY THE STUDENTS ON THEIR ART WORKS
HANGING, DRINKING, TALKING
I LOVE SHEEPS AND THEIR WOOL AND I EXPLOIT THEM for my MANHATTAN MARXIST PROJECT as part of STRANGE TEACHING
THE FINAL EXHIBTION - RAINER GANAHL
STRANGE TEACHING / SCHONE AUSSICHT / BOA VISTA - EXHBITION OF PARTICIPATING" EXPLOITED" STUDENTS