I describe it as a movement, a kind of
international constellation of projects
and activities and people that are
trying to reestablish the idea of use
value back within the frame of art.
We aim at developing small but very
concrete proposals for sociopolitical
deficiencies.
We see it as art but it has
nothing to do with a classical
understanding of art so there's
no painting, no sculpture, no anything else.
WochenKlausur turned a bus, a van, into a mobile clinic.
They figured if the homeless
people can't go to doctors then the
doctors need to go to the homeless
people. And this mobile clinic has been
driving around Vienna for 25 years now.
With globalization, with the economic
crash with questions around the way
society operates quite at the forefront
of everybody's minds, that kind of
model of art that we've had which is
maybe called "modern art," "contemporary art" has become slightly redundant and maybe
needs to be retired somewhat. And that we could reintroduce another way of looking
at art which is of more benefit to more people.
