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NOVA PORTAMeasures for Managing Risks. Overseen by Jana Gunstheimer |
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Suppose there was an organisation called NOVA PORTA. Suppose that this organisation conducted a large-scale pilot project that simulated the potential for conflict within a labour society in which there was less and less work and whose government attempted to control more strongly the unemployed for fear that they could pose a threat. Just suppose ... The simulated scenarios conceived by Jana Gunstheimer in her projects are critical of society. Yet they are documented in the most precise detail using ostensibly authentic material. Like major media-packaged events, the projects play off the feigned Possible against the Real, raising the question of how reality as such is constructed in human consciousness. Biography 1974 born in Zwickau 1993–1998 studies of Ethnology and History of Art, Universität Leipzig 1997–2003 Burg Giebichenstein , Hochschule für Kunst und Design Halle, Halle/Saale 2001 Academy of Fine Arts, Athen and Ohio University, Athens, USA 2004 working grant and 2007 project grant Stiftung Kunstfonds 2010 working grant Villa Massimo, Rome lives and works in Jena |
The illustrated book was published on the occasion of the exhibition „Daß es ernst ist, wissen wir, aber wir glauben es nicht“, 6 February to 27 March 2010, Galerie Römerapotheke, Zurich, as well as 23 July to 12 September 2010, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck. edited by Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, and Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
authors among others Lisa Dorin, Jana Gunstheimer, Arnold Hofhaus, Herbert Trondtheim u. a.
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