A KASSEN

Without Title (Stone, Brueck)

Approx. 200 persons from the local city of Brück are photographed/portrayed behind a big stone.
The photo is showing only the stone. While insisting on not showing the crowd we test if a/the photo has gained something (poetry, for instance) from the presence of these people. The event will exist in the minds of the ones participating and as a story. For us this is much more exiting than showing the crowd as the only point of the work.

Place: Foto Melli, Ernst-Thälmann-Str. 51
Foto 120 x 80 cm in the main display window, documentary foto 30 x 40 in the side window

About A Kassen

The artist collective A Kassen work with performative installation and sculpture. Actions, discretely part of the exhibition space, are characteristc of A Kassen’s works. The actions may even be so discrete, they don’t get noticed. But if they do get noticed, they contain strong elements of humor and surprise. Once in a while, A Kassen perform the actions themselves, but mostly they are performed by extras or even by monstrous machines, constructed by A Kassen. A Kassen’s works refer to the objectless, conceptual art of the 60s, to performances and pop art. They examine and experiment with the borders between art and non-art, as well as self invented systems that change the functions of things within a given space. The works are absurd, subtle and often very elegant due to their seamless adaption to their context. In this sense, they form a critique of the institution and draw attention to how we act and navigate in a certain context.

Christian Bretton-Meyer 1976, Morten Steen Hebsgaard 1977,Søren Petersen 1977 and Tommy Petersen 1975.

www.akassen.com