RECORDING_6

Prof. Diana McCarty, HfG Karlsruhe, im Gespräch mit María Inés Plaza Lazo, head of publications and programs at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.

Recording_1989 is the result of a two-year research project by the Polish-born, London-based artist Marysia Lewandowska, who critically examined the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and its archive during this period. The result is an installation that refers to the history of the institution as reflected in the Donald Judd exhibition of 1989. As part of this exhibition, Donald Judd and the then director of the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Jochen Poetter, conducted an interview, which Lewandowska makes accessible to the public for the first time in her installation Recording_1989. By critically reflecting on Judd and his interview, both in terms of installation and program, she creates a new context for the recording, both materially and conceptually: she transforms the archival gesture into a contested terrain of authority.

Consequently, this is also about the voice: Who is allowed to speak? And - as a consequence - who is not allowed to speak? Who has the agency, who has the power to speak? Who is heard? And - as a consequence - who is not heard? Whose story are we actually hearing when we listen to this interview? Whose story is the story we are learning?

These questions will be discussed in a series of curated conversations between artists, curators, academics and designers.