DIS-PLAY is a virtual presence and live piece of art. It brings together artists with international backgrounds to circulate ideas and unify their individual and independent approaches. Utilizing environments as a context for art DIS-PLAY connects virtual versus physical prospects beyond a physical representation and stages a merged image of different reality states. Without being bound to physical confines DIS-PLAY re-considers traditional techniques of exhibiting, curating, preserving and creating art. Its flexible frame-up enables the re-exploration to visualize the often hidden power structures of global networks while making it accessible through the internet, through live streams and social media, through diverse devices, overall used screens in urban scenery and miscellaneous landscapes and places around the globe. All given fragments form an occurrence claiming the real as an encounter beyond existing limitations of common boundaries and hidden facts and create space for active thought as a hybrid of life, inspiration and art practice itself. Each virtual appearance occurs physically at different venues across cultures, countries and time zones and brings together a wide array of artists and people to engage and rethink the actual.
For OPAF 2020 DIS-PLAY is showing 4 occurrences:
Like a Black Hole, a Message with Carlotta Drinkewitz + Delia Jürgens + Lorenz Liebig + Tarik Kentouche + Yean Gi Hong | taking place at the Ernst August Galerie, Hanover (GER), CHASE, Koreatown Los Angeles (USA), Volkswagen-Halle, Brunswick (GER), Bank of America, Mid-Wilshire Los Angeles (USA), bei_vier, Cologne (GER);
And this was the Beginning of Memory with Andy Bennett + Carlotta Drinkewitz + Delia Jürgens + Gaston Wilhelm + John Junhun Lee + Lorenz Liebig + Tarik Kentouche | taking place at Dong Xuan Center Berlin (GER), MOCA Geffen, Los Angeles (USA), Elevator, Brunswick (GER), Cesar E. Chavez Bridge, Los Angeles (USA);
URSUBSTANZ with Judith Crasser + Delia Jürgens + Ezequiel Olvera + Tarik Kentouche | taking place at The Garden Hotel, Guangzhou (CHN), Peking Palast, Leipzig (GER), Bube Leipzig (GER), Home Depot, Los Angeles (USA) and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (USA); and a selection of DIARIES an occurrence that happened throughout the lockdown and the recent circumstances of the pandemic giving an personal insight in the format of a diary with Jessica Dillon, Karolina Lavergne, Eva Noeske and Christina Schönthaler
