Tilo Schulz - "The return of the display. The meaning of the exhibition in the year 2030 "

July-August 2001

The return of the display is a commissioned project that is extended in time and that takes a search for common interests as its starting point.on the basis of a gradual mediation process, four curators, artists or at critics have been invited by Tilo Schulz to write about the concept of an exhibition for the year 2030 with the generic question: Could you concebir an exhibition for the year 2030?
the people he has invited are: Charles Esche, Carles Guerra, Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt and Lisette Smits.
*the propositions and texts are published in posters that are placed and distributed in various places in the city of San Sebastián, both in the street and in clothes shops, record shops, bookshops and cultural institutions where they are freely available. The development of the ideas in the project is reflected at the same time on the website http://www.daeweb.org www.daeweb.org and close contact has also been established with the media (local press and radio, as well as in more specialised media) through previews, summaries, interviews, articles, etc.

Tilo Schulz is interested in the exhibition as a social convention and as a characteristic phenomenon in our society and wonders whether in the future exhibitions will be linked to art or on the contrary, society will collapse and the idea of the "exhibition" as we currently know it will be lost. by following Tilo Schulz's working methods, this premise works as a model that serves to convey a set of ideas and reflect on these. The four texts that result from this are less the conception of an exhibition for the future as a series of speculations, potential scenarios, short essays, science-fiction texts and
literature, etc. In this way, the four proposals by Tilo Schulz's collaborators and the general project remain in an intermediate state between literature, art and design, reality and fiction, visibility and invisibility, between today and tomorrow, now and then, utopia and post-utopia... these scenarios are mediated by posters with a special graphic design, with formal strata and references that are characteristic of a certain kind of meta-design. research on art, design and theory within the broad context of visual culture is not a simple question.
Tilo Schulz acts in the open field of this new discipline of visual culture by applying communication strategies, designing ethical and aesthetic information, and placing ideas in the service of a varied group of people.
A common factor in Tilo Schulz's work is his involvement in mediation and communication. the work and ideas of other artists are often the object of his reflections, as well as a questioning of the very structures used by the system of art itself. His activity ranges from interventions in public space "Manifesta 2", Luxemburg to curated projects such as "Exhibition Without Exhibition" (media project), "Local Motion", Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, "The real and the fake" Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and exhibitions in galleries, "Dangerous Liaisons", Kunstverein Langenhagen or "How to make a group show without inviting anybody", Dogenhaus Gallery, (Leipzig).

* Lisette Smits runs CASCO in Utrecht, a structure that focuses on art projects that question the relationship between art and its physical, social and political environment.
Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt is a writer/curator based in Glasgow.
Carles Guerra is an artist, critic and independent curator in Barcelona.
Charles Esche is a writer and curator and editor of the magazine Afterall. He is currently manager of the Rooseum Institution in Malmö.

Lisette Smits

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Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt

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Carles Guerra

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Charles Esche

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