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Tim Zulauf: Narrating Spaces
Interdependencies of spatial frontiers and verbal production and verbal frontiers and spatial production
How does a society’s daily production of oral and written narration influence border regimes? How do rumors and fictions turn into cemented legal structures? How could they on the other hand shift perceptions and constructions between private and public realms or enable new transnational movements?
Through examples of recent artistic works in Tunis and South Africa, as well as text production in the framework of the «Papierlose Zeitung» produced with the Autonomous School Zurich, the talk will try to link examples of how to crisscross ideological texts with deconstructing spatial moves…or how to inject textual loopholes into restrictive spatial stratifications.
Tim Zulauf, born in 1973, lives in Zurich, Switzerland, and teaches Fine Arts at the Bern University of the Arts. After participating in research projects focusing on art in public spheres, since 2002 he has realized installations and stage projects as author and director of KMUProduktionen. KMUProduktionen focuses on the interdependence of social, language-based, and aesthetic developments. Works related to these questions considered, for example, restrictions in the field of sex work, the prohibition of begging, or the conversion of the arms company Contraves’ headquarters into a residence and cultural complex.
At the 2011 Venice Art Biennale, the trilingual installative dramatisation «Deviare –Vier Agenten – Part of a Movie» was shown as part of the official Swiss contribution, curated by Andrea Thal. Currently the stage production «Pflege und Verpflegung – À bout de soins – Caregiving Caretakers», an exploration of today’s status of caregiving work, is touring throughout 2015/16. Ongoing research on planning, legislation, and counter-narration in the distribution of space takes place within the framework of «Shifting Territories», conceived by dala in the integrated housing project Cornubia/Durban, South Africa, investigating social housing strategies in the post-Apartheid era. The youngest production «La Porte portable», commissioned by the Tunis Biennale «Dream City», explored the political and mental relations between Switzerland and post-revolutionary Tunisia.