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I have been working with rentner collective since its humble beginnings.
My involvement has been of an artistic as well as an organizational
nature. Hosting rentnercollective.com is at the moment one of my main
contributions to the collective. Artistically I am interested in the
social structures of the group, how these structures emerge and manifest
themselves, how they enable people to feed of each other and how this
collaborative environment constantly pushes rentner in new territories.
Most of all, I am interested in the question of whether this collaborative
environment and its development manifest themselves in a distinctive
artistic identity from which one can draw conclusions about the artistic
character of the group/movement as a whole. |
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Because
of my general involvement with rentner collective, I did not approach
'this is rentnercollective?' as a self-contained project, but as part
of a wider context and process and therefore my part in it as an artist
was probably somewhat unclear. Especially in the early days, I found
it a bit difficult to separate from that my involvement in it as someone
who contributes organizationally. |
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Initially I did not really consider myself as one of the participating
artists. Instead I concentrated on enabling rentnercollective.com
to act as a tool for communication between the artists working on
the project. For instance, in the preparation phase of 'this is rentnercollective.com',
we set up a section of the site where the artists involved could present
their proposals to each other (the section required a password), where
summaries of our meetings were presented, where suggestions were made,
etc. As time progressed, however, people started to pursue their own
paths and formed their own liaisons, which meant that there was no
more need for a centralized communication tool between them.
As the project entered its final phase I felt my contribution to the
show should reflect and interpret this collaborative process. I wanted
this to be in the form of an artwork, but one, which due to its concept,
not only reflects the above, but also analyzes and therefore offers
a conceptual tool for making this process more efficient. Surrounded
by small objects that comment on the corporate identity of rentner,
I therefore presented R review#7 with its central subject of the sculpting(Down)
methodology, which aims to achieve exactly that. |
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