There is something magical in words – in what they do to people – and something unique in the way people use them. How to Move and Respond is an exhibition in the form of text – and in texts.
For an entire weekend, the program is dedicated to the question of what language holds, can hold, and in what way in art. Conceived as a group exhibition, it describes an encounter, an experiment that explores discursive relationships.
How to Move and Respond invites artists and authors to show or read their texts in the garden of Haus am Waldsee.
The exhibition unfolds on two levels: On the one hand, texts or text-based works are presented in the form of readings, performances, audio works, or screenings. On the other, it is about what is written about – people, works, themes – which are themselves invisible. What is said thus refers to something absent.
How to Move and Respond emphasizes that people can only move forward through others and their words – that through them they also learn to understand themselves, their working methods, and their impact. Art that moves people always emerges in dialogue with the thoughts of others.
The oldest contribution to this year's edition dates from 2013, the most recent texts from 2025. The invited artists belong to different generations. Specific texts or works from fifteen participants were selected for the exhibition. Ten additional artists were invited to contribute open texts. In this sense, too, the exhibition is one of encounters – on many levels.
All readings as well as audio and video works will be heard or seen only once.
The contributions include texts about the conditions or the status quo in contemporary art and/or society by Elise Duryee-Browner, Loretta Fahrenholz, Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda in collaboration with Ken Okiishi and Nick Mauss, Ilya Lipkin, and Georgie Nettell, texts about exhibitions and artworks or practices of artists by Paige K. Bradley (Kaari Upson), David Jourdan (Merlin Carpenter), Jan Kunkel (Hanne Darboven), Robert Müller (Stefano Faoro), Marie-France Rafael (Anne Imhof), Jamieson Webster (Bracha L. Ettinger), Annette Weisser (Vincent Fecteau), Camilla Wills (Gregg Bordowitz), and Simone White (Trisha Donnelly), text based works or texts about one’s own practice by Tina Braegger, Guiding Light (Till Megerle, Michaela Kisling, Artjom Astrov), Lisa Holzer, New Theater Hollywood (Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff), Phung-Tien Phan, Josephine Pryde, Nora Schultz, Miriam Stoney, Michael Van den Abeele, Simone White, and performances by Angharad Williams, and Organza Ray (Eleni Poulou and Hilary Jeffery). The videos and audio files will, like the readings, only be visible/audible once.
Additional information
Price info: Haus am Waldsee offers a campaign to encourage people who feel unable to pay the full admission – i.e. are currently short on cash – to choose an amount between 0 and 9 Euros instead of the regular admission of 9/6 Euros, without red tape and without verification of need. “Pay what you can.”
At the same time, we encourage people who are financially well-off to pay a surcharge on admission in the form of a donation, to allow someone who is less financially stable to pay what they can. In doing so, we hope to make a contribution to relieve the increasingly tense economic situation and to signal to everyone that they are welcome at the Haus at any time, even if they may not be able to afford the full admission at the moment.
Price: €9.00
Reduced price: €6.00
At the same time, we encourage people who are financially well-off to pay a surcharge on admission in the form of a donation, to allow someone who is less financially stable to pay what they can. In doing so, we hope to make a contribution to relieve the increasingly tense economic situation and to signal to everyone that they are welcome at the Haus at any time, even if they may not be able to afford the full admission at the moment.
Price: €9.00
Reduced price: €6.00
Dates
May 2025
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