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LESSON 2: CREATING REALITIES


Photos of the exhibition
The entrance of the Temporary ArtLab in Maribor on Glavni trg 22.
The work "Rotationsquintett" by Constantin Luser welcomes the visitors in the first room. It is a carousel with musical instruments that wants to be used.
In the same room you can find a large print by Aleksandra Vajd & Hynek Alt from the series "First Aid". Further images from the series can be found on billboards around the city.
"Pseudo" by Marlene Hausegger.
In the middle of the second room, a (functional) detector gate can be found, introduced as a ready-made titled "2013" by Nataša Berk. On the right, a monitor displays the video "Solidarity" by Nika Autor.
The artist Petra Varl has created a laboratory to produce pins and to use silk-screen printing on t-shirts together with her students.
During the "Open work"-week before the opening, Petra Varl's students of her Drawing Class (Faculty of Education, University of Maribor) came and continued to work on their topic of drawing the human figure - on pins and as designs for t-shirts.
The book collection of "fotomuzej.si" (by Matej Modrinjak). Visitors are invited to stay and study the books.
"P.P. Public Pictures", a temporary photographic experimental set-up by Martin Osterider, combining images of found situations within different urban surroundings.
The "Apparatus to observe the surface of the moon" by Wendelin Pressl.
A room with collages by Maruša Sagadin, titled "Round Tables".
The installation "Untitled" by Joseph Wurm.
In the last room, the "Transnational Guerrilla Art School", a project by Daniela Brasil, is located. In this ongoing project, wishes & needs in art education were collected. Here the first results are present together with several selected objects, making up the 'class room'.
Everybody can enroll in the "Transnational Guerilla Art School" by filling in the application form.
Different local institutions of Maribor were invited to lend a useful/meaningful object to be used in the "classroom" of the Transnational Guerrilla Art School. All objects lent were photographed in their original location and labeled in an "actor-object tag".
Needs, wishes, motivations and subjects of study as collected by Daniela Brasil during the first part of the exhibition in Graz, being continued in Maribor.
The room is also used as a social space where coffee and tee is offered. Also to be seen here: the film "Šentilj-Spelfeld. A Border Crossing that Once Was" by Matjaž Ivanišin.
The exhibition "Lesson 2: creating realities" includes also some pieces of art in public space, as "The Balcony" by Marlene Hausegger.
The façade of the Čajna Šop was newly designed by Nataša Berk in collaboration with Josef Wurm.
In the parking lot of the Law Faculty of the University of Maribor you can find the mural "Kissing" by Petra Varl.
Just in front of the entrance of the Temporary ArtLab, the installation "Signed by Mana Ous Bah " by Veli&Amos is located. The writings were added in the course of the protests against the local government of Maribor in November 2012 by activists. (Photo: Suzana Jovic)
Photos, except last one: Metka Golec (son:DA)