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2023 | It is to regulate the population of animals which can cause damage | Interviews with German hunters from the Lake Constance region | Audio, Variable length
In the days leading up to the «K wie Kunst» exhibition, I conducted interviews with five hunters in the region around Lake Constance in southern Germany. In their favourite hunting towers and tree stands, the hunters, both men and women, talked to me about their passion for hunting game and the contemplation of nature, Jagdfieber (hunting fever), power relations, rifles and other of their cult objects.
In the KFZ contemporary art space, the audio piece «C'est pour réguler la population de gibier qui peut causer des dégâts» is set up in the garage-chief's gallery of the former building where part of the group exhibition is being shown.
The audience sits high up on a padded bench, much like the hunters who were interviewed, and listens to what the latter say while observing the space below. They experience a protected space, hidden from sight, that invites them to observe the artworks and the rest of the audience moving around the workshop hall below them. The public beneath, exploring the other artworks on the groundloor, find themselves observed at their expense and exposed to the gaze of the audience sitting in the office of the former garage master.
K WIE KUNST, KFZ - Kunst für Zukunft, group show curated by Ana Baumgart and Daniel Franz | Radolfzell am Bodensee Germany | Exhibition Photo: Ana Baumgart