DER FAHRENDE RAUM MÜNCHEN
AKTIONSRAUM Vagabund:innen Landtag with performances and readings on the work of Gusto Gräser

Gusto Gräser went far away to be published. He wanted to publish his poems under the title Wortfeuerzeug. But only within the local authorities he found publishers , who kept sending him out of the country. He felt that this orderly and strict remote treatment of all power masters was mistreatment. In contrast, his own language was addressed directly to his counterpart. For this exchange, he was prepared to travel long distances.
Elena Carr’s and Jonas Carrr’s sculptural works also address the viewer directly. In the interaction of object and bodily gesture, they devote themselves to the anecdote, as a direct and oral form of language that has not been misplaced.
At this Land Tag, historical anecdotes and images from one’s own everyday life come together.

Objects and performance in collaboration with Jonas Carr and kids of Der Fahrende Raum
Action space Vagabund:innen Treff | Der Fahrende Raum, Munich 2018

Verlegen im Sinne von einziehen, verkabeln, abdrucken, drucken, editieren, herausbringen, herausgeben, auflegen, veröffentlichen

Ich will
Ich will
Ich will doch was Besondres sein
und bin auch nur ein Ich-Mich-Lein

Verlegen im Sinne von schamhaft, scheu, schüchtern, beschämt, bang, beklommen, gehemmt, genierlich, verschüchtert, zaghaft, betreten, ängstlich, hilflos, verschämt, bedeppert, auf Hilfe angewiesen, verzagt

Losgelöst
losgelöst
losgelöst von allen andern
will ich einsam wandern

Verlegen im Sinne von abordnen, auslagern, ausquartieren, aussiedeln, beordern, bringen, entsenden, fortbringen, fortschaffen, hinbeordern, kommandieren, platzieren, verpflanzen, wegbringen; auslogieren; verbringen

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Where do they come from?
They come from wherever you and the other protagonists come from:
From telephone conversations, from the toilet, from the couch or from the swimming pool.

You don’t list yourself on the flyer, I think you could have done that. The city of Straubing is listed as the director. There is no target audience.
After all, who produces feelings in an exhibition, if not you or me?
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The city of Straubing is indicated as the director | Exercise 1 – 14

Wheel Elena Carr and Jonas Carr, 2014/17
Kinetic object | Wood, axle, ball bearing, board varnish, chalk

Text Jonas Carr and Leo Heinik
Performance Elena Carr and Marius Meusch
Video installation Elena Carr

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Liederliche Subjekte | Exhibition at Weytterturm Straubing 2017
Organisation: Association of Visual Artists in cooperation with the Cultural Office of the City of Straubing

‘Und jetzt alle!’
A.L.E. | Angela Neumair, Lea Wilsdorf, Elena Carr

>> Elena Carr’s artistic explorations always revolve around real societal challenges with social, political and ethical questions, which she translates into spatial and often interactive works and allows to emerge in different levels of reality. With a group straitjacket (Gruppenzwangsjacke) she explores the relationship between conformity, collaboration and social utopia. The metaphorical object stands or hangs on its own as an autonomous textile sculpture, but is also suitable as a costume or prop for participatory performances. <<

Prof. Res Ingold

Gehschreibe | Elena Carr and Jonas Carr

>> Elena Carr’s artistic medium is space, whereby her sculptural spectrum is oriented less towards specific materials than towards aesthetic potentials of perception and interpretation. She usually develops her objects and installations through various stages and media experimental arrangements, then presents them in different contexts, sometimes as autonomous sculptures, often as scenographic installations for performances or artistic video. An example of this multimedia approach is her so-called Gehschreibe Apparat, a bricolage-style vendor’s tray with various docking stations for analogue and digital apps for spontaneous recording and playback of audiovisual events. A vehicle that is both a costume reference to Oskar Schlemmer‘s Triadic Ballet and Jean Tinguely‘s Metamatics and an ironic commentary on the society of control, as seen in the works of Pierre Huyghe. <<

Prof. Res Ingold

FAHRRADKINO

with Franziska Wirtensohn, Michael Wittmann
Isarbalkon Corneliusbrücke, Munich 2014

Film: Intro Peter Lustig [33 single frames]

The Show you dare not miss

The visitor pedals the old bicycle. With the help of the stroboscopic effect, the illusion of a continuous movement is created. To run for something can be experienced while pedalling. On interchangeable film strips you can see Fellini’s gaze, in another version you follow a sausage on a hook, like a donkey on a carrot. Rotating around the axis, turning around the centre, circling around the target.
Access to film sequences, as we know them from the cinema – the illusion machine – is provided. The object that comes to life only functions through the action of the viewer, who becomes the player. They themselves drive their own illusion machinery.
Step backwards or forwards? Step closer! The sequence of images is set in motion. A bicycle ride – moving, struggling, rotating is simulated. Speed is self-determined. People pedal along according to their own ideas. Who is the donkey in here?

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FRAGENGLOCKE

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Do you hope in view of the world situation:
a. For reason?
b. For a miracle?
c. That things will continue as before?

Do you usually know what you hope for?

Suppose you distinguish between your own hopes and the hopes that others (parents, teachers, comrades, lovers) have for you: Do you feel more depressed when the former or when the latter are not fulfilled?

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15 Questions from the Questionnaire by Max Frisch in German language
Spoken by Peter Weiss

Fragenglocke, sound installation
with Franziska Wirtensohn, Michael Wittmann | Bonnet: Michaela Andrae
Exhibition view: Annual Exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich 2013