Elke Krasny talks with Joonas Lahtinen
EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN.
Love Letters is an installation, a participatory experiment, a declaration of love to love letters and to the oeuvre of Jenny Holzer, with which the artist Joonas Lahtinen has been intensively engaging himself for several years. Quotations from Jenny Holzer and from cultural theory texts, a personal letter by Lahtinen to Holzer, and letters and messages written by the audience run on the ticker bars installed in the former telephone booth.
In their talk, the cultural theorist Elke Krasny and Joonas Lahtinen will discuss art historical, cultural and sociopolitical contexts of love letters and of letter writing, the “confessional society”, politics of participatory art, and the relation between the “public” and the “private”, based on the installation. After the talk, the first love letters and messages by visitors will be integrated into the installation and displayed in public.
Curated by Christine Baumann and Pablo Chiereghin.
KUNSTZELLE
The KUNSTZELLE, a former telephone box from the 1960s, stands prominently in the courtyard of the WUK Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus and has been a venue for artistic installations and interventions since 2006. The program is curated by initiator Christine Baumann together with Pablo Chiereghin. The KUNSTZELLE offers artists a pivotal point from which to address their work to a broad audience of visitors and passers-by and has been explored anew again and again for almost 20 years. In addition to artists with longer professional experience, students from the TransArts / die Angewandte class show selected works every three years.
Artist Talk with Joonas Lahtinen - "Love Letters"
16 Nov 2023/19:00-20:00H
KUNSTZELLE
Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Wien, Österreich
