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MY OTHER STORY. (IM)POSSIBLE IDENTITIES
cURATOR | CReator
2011, Munich/Germany | multimedia exhibition | event & lecture series | performance | experiment
PROJECT PARTNERS, SUPPORTERS & VENUES: MAXIMILIANSFORUM, BAVARIAN DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE, AKADEMIEVEREIN
FEATURED ARTISTS: FRANK BALVE, MORITZ S. BINDER, SEUNG IL-CHUNG, DANIEL GRAZIADEI, DANA LÜRKEN, JULIKA MEYER, FABIAN VOGL, NATALIE WILD, ALEXANDER ZIMBULOV, WRITE CLUB, PARASYTE WOMAN
The project
The month-long multimedia exhibition and interactive event series addressed the idea of identity and proposed alternative storylines. It revolved around fictionality and free-will, asked questions of origin, self-agency, belonging, the connection between identity and locality, and creation. Set in the extraordinary location of a spacious but drafty underpass, the exhibition consisted of site-specific works by seven artists and hosted several events, among them concerts, lectures, film screenings, creative literature and author readings.
My responsibilities
As initiator and curator, I drafted the project, researched and invited participating artists and speakers, communicated with venues, and applied for funding. Together with the artists, I designed the exhibition display, communicated with technicians, oversaw the space set-up (and helped build it), planned, programmed and moderated events. The budgeting and accounting was my responsibility, as much as the production and creative supervision of communication and press material. I handled all kinds of last-minute emergencies (like freezing temperatures and the lack of heaters), and even womanned the bar in moments of staff-shortage.
In the beginning there were questions. Who would you be if… if you were born as someone else, if you had taken a different path? Who can you be, who do you want to be? How many alternative storylines of a life, a being, an identity can exist? What is your story without you? How much of it can you create? And who are you where?
