Not Standing in Place

Not Standing in Place is a collaborative project by Vlatka Horvat and Tim Etchells, for which the two invited a group of international artists to create imaginary monuments in text form to be installed on the Landiwiese in Zurich, home for the city’s Theater Spektakel festival. These temporary monuments summoned in language are manifested as various text-bearing structures, from billboards and 3-dimensional constructions to small signs and banners.

From monuments focusing on personal stories or interests; forgotten or marginalized histories; surprising events or images; shared dreams or even abstract ideas, Not Standing in Place presents a highly playful and deeply serious reimagining of what we might choose to memorialize or draw attention to in shared public space; which aspects of experience, history and daily life are marked or celebrated, how and by whom.

In different ways, the 14 diverse text-based works created within the frame of the project open up a playful and vivid space of public imagination, reflection and thinking, bringing to the fore questions around permanence/ephemeralness, around material presence, and more broadly around societal change.

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With newly commissioned works by:

Anne Bean, Caroline Bergvall, Season Butler, Tania El Khoury, Sharon Hayes, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, David Horvitz, Peter Liversidge, Harun Morrison, Ahmet Öğüt, Katrina Palmer, Dan Perjovschi, Dread Scott, and Schwar zenbach Kompl ex.

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