— 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.
nora jacobs
ABOUT
Nora Jacobs lives and works in Vienna. She holds a B.A. in Acting from the Norwegian Theatre Academy, a diploma with honours from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Akbild) and graduated from the Academy of Circus Arts - Europe’s only traveling circus school. She is ArtStart scholarship holder of the Akbild and received the START-Stipend of the Federal Chancellery of the Republic of Austria. Her wide-ranging background is reflected in her works, that combine performance, installation and video.
STATEMENT
The audience is waiting. Something unexpected happens. Failure is immanent. My work is about escaping the norm and questioning its existence. Genderfuck says hello. Humor plays an important part; The moment when the mouth opens and the message directly lands in the throat. Queerness weaves through the work as recurrent theme. Queer read as a three-dimensional space with endless potential. The characters and animals I work with are mere projection screens. They appear to be foreign bodies in a society that preferable thinks in categories. They dissolve gender boundaries and create space for more.
With the means of performance and installation I create spaces that leave traces. They have the potential to empower. Queerness becomes a stage where everyone can pick their role. The ephemeral of performance meets the alleged permanent installation and induces a change. Video comes in between or hangs discretely in the air. Space is altered.
We asked ...
What does failure mean for your artistic work? How do you record your ideas for new works and projects?
A project often sits years in the head. It gathers in sketches, text characters and snapshots until all the parts come together. The audience expects a bang and it just goes poof. Something does not happen as expected. Curtains open and close. The stage can be entered. Let there be light. But a highlight is missing. The in between hangs in the before and after. Somewhere the horizon, which remains unreachable in the distance.
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