Sit, Talk, Silence
<p>The wooden chair sits hard under my bones, my neck is tense. My view is partly obstructed by the heads of students. The projection field is small compared to the size of the art space in Zurich West, where the public event takes place. On view is Andrea Fraser’s 2022 video performance <em>This meeting is being recorded</em>. The artist reenacts parts of Group Relations meetings she had held with other white- and female-identifying people about manifestations of internal racism in the U.S. I am following this well-tempered conversation. And while I analyze the group dynamics in the film from a certain distance, my chair suddenly begins to tremble.</p> <p>This piece is a field report on the collapsing boundaries between art work, audience and class room, on confused speakers-positions, shared silences and monophonic discussions.</p>
Authors: Barbara Preisig
Subject: Andrea Fraser
Series Editor: Lucie Kolb, Pablo Müller, Barbara Preisig, Judith Welter
Art Director: Sabo Day
Code: FLX Labs
Part of: Brand-New-Life Magazine
ISBN: 22979220
ISSN: 2297-9220