— too bold, too big, to far: Unrealized artworks become visible. Artists from all over connect.
While mobility is restricted, borders and distances are clearly perceptible and existential uncertainties
are omnipresent, more artistic works than ever remain in the state of planning. Whether it fails due to
lack of time, space or money or accompanies your artistic work for years as bold dream — we are looking
for your projects, which have not (yet) made it beyond their state as an idea, concept, draft or prototype.
With this exhibition we want to open up a space and visibility in terms of concepts, sketches, drafts, plans
and photographs. These papers will be presented at the art space BLECH. in Halle, Germany.
At the same time, despite current challenges and immobility, this format allows to present
and bring international artists together. Since many things cannot take place on location and in person,
there will be an online programm additional to the exhibtion. For an exchange and encounters, the
participating artists and their work will be presented and discussed on a digital platform.
— too bold, too big, to far: Unrealized artworks become visible. Artists from all over connect.
While mobility is restricted, borders and distances are clearly perceptible and existential uncertainties
are omnipresent, more artistic works than ever remain in the state of planning. Whether it fails due to
lack of time, space or money or accompanies your artistic work for years as bold dream — we are looking
for your projects, which have not (yet) made it beyond their state as an idea, concept, draft or prototype.
With this exhibition we want to open up a space and visibility in terms of concepts, sketches, drafts, plans
and photographs. These papers will be presented at the art space BLECH. in Halle, Germany.
At the same time, despite current challenges and immobility, this format allows to present
and bring international artists together. Since many things cannot take place on location and in person,
there will be an online programm additional to the exhibtion. For an exchange and encounters, the
participating artists and their work will be presented and discussed on a digital platform.
yves ndagano
ABOUT
Yves Ndagano Badosanye is the director of the cultural center Sikilik'Afrika which means "Listening to Africa" as well the director of the Kivu Festival. As a former child soldier and worker in the coltan mine at the age of 11, today he supervises children. Ndagano was born in Bukavu in 1990. He works as a choreographer, director and actor and his vision is to transform society through art. He studied in Bukavu, Goma, Rwanda and Burundi and has several experiences in international projects such as Germany during the coltan fever project and others.
Statement
My New Project is addressed to all categories of people, but it emphasizes solidarity and courage in spite of disagreements to artists from different disciplines.
Photo: Jana Luck
We asked ...
What role do unrealized projects play in your artistic practice?
The unrealized project is in my opinion a failure of the artistic vision that is already planned. All artists work on time because time has no time, and when we artists work hard for quality and a positive result in our environment, it breaks our hearts, but it depends on the cause of the failure of the project. But in short, it hurts in one way or another.
How does it feel for you as an artist not to be able to realize an artwork?
What interests me is to continue the project, not to realize how I conceived my project with objectives, energy and time. A project is like a child, is like a pregnancy, where I expect a child with more love. If my wife has an abortion, it hurts of course, but this does not mean that I stop sleeping with my wife, but I have to increase my love towards the courage to have a child and a dream. Here I continue not to realize the project, because there are some results that are expected to be important, which have to be taken out after the project.
What does failure mean for your artistic work?
It is the lack of means and the lack to give, lack of innovation towards its community or its public.
What do the terms 'possible' and 'impossible' mean in the context of your artistic practice?
Listen I interpret that the Possible is what is well planned and done if I can interpret it is word Possible this crossing certain limited to arrive to the excellence.
The impossible; I want to say that it is an expression of not courage, it is a spirit of failure, it is a spirit to see his little vision.
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