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Installment
Art Following the Trend? Artists' Voices.
Kunst im Trend. Artists' Voices.

a discursive on- and offline installment and a study
on the roles and positions of the contemporary artist
in the society she/he lives in

concept
Alexandra Reill
vienna, 2007

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Evrim Asutay
actress/singer, TR
Nicole Baier
film/video/media artist, A
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti
mixed media/video installations, THA
Ricarda Denzer
video artist/film maker, A
Korhan Erel
sound artist, TR
Murat Ergin
painter, TR
Heidulf Gerngross
architect, A
Genco Gülan
performer/media artist, TR
Yesim Gülan
actress/theater director, TR
Anita Hafner
visual artist, A
Jeremy Hight
conceptual artist/writer/musician, US
Kurt Hofstetter
media artist, A
Salvatore Ionesci
artistically inclined human being/
process artist/new media artist, I
Mandana Alavi Kia
dancer/performer/singer/painter, IR
Gerald Kofler
journalist/photographer, A
Tina Leisch
theater and film director, A
Brigitte Neufeldt
media artist, D
Alexander Nikolic
video maker/communication guerilla
cosmopolitan
PRINZGAU/podgorschek
fine artists, A
Marika Schmiedt
film maker, A
Walter Stach
artist/art mediator, A
Alexander Stanzel
fine artist, A
Myriam Thyes
media artist, D
Eve Tsirigotakis
TV journalist, GR
Leen Vandereyken
author/theater director, B
Frederik de Wilde
media artist, B
Herbert Wulz
in-/exformatic designer, A

Art Following the Trend? Artists' Voices. starts with two parallel modules – a series of [video] interviews and a study on the theme.

Individual positions of artists regarding the character of their art production and their aims in their art production are referred to. In addition, the questionnaire used in the research for the study serves as a basis for the conduct of the interview (questions on statistical data on income excluded). All screening events are surrounded by a discussion with the audience and the handing out of a questionnaire.

Ihe interviews are analyzed and integrated in the study Art Following the Trend? Artists' Voices. Furthermore, a questionnaire on the theme is published internationally with the aim of generating international statistical data through the participation of min. 100 persons. The questionnaire is evaluated and forms one major chapter of the study Art Following the Trend? Artists' Voices. Further chapters discuss the EC Lissabon Guideline on Creative Industries in relation to research results out of the field of Cultural Studies.

The interviews are performed regularly during 2007 – international artists in conversation with Alexandra Reill focussing on their motivation to produce art, the targets of their art and their self-defintion of their roles and positions in contemporary societies, with a special focus on their financing models for the art production as well as their ways of life.