Why did you decide to take part in this project? What is your interest within the engagement with the „reading format“?
In my works I intertwine different narratives with historical reports, personal reminiscences and scientific facts, to develop stories spanning in between tense sobriety and tragicomic occurrences. I also work with the format of lecture performance, where I recite a text and show images. On the one hand I’m interested in the format of lecture performance because it gives a direct chance for debate with the audience, as well as I like working collaboratively.
Gernot Wieland has recently participated in Body Luggage – Migration of Gestures, Kunsthaus Graz/Festival steirischer herbst; Histoires de l’Ile des Bienheureux, Musée du chateau des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard ; „Hello, my name is…“…and…“Yes, I´m fine.“, Lumiar Cité, Lisbon; 33rd Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel; _ _ f i n _ _ _ , Dobra Experimental Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro; Random Walks, Konsthall 44, Møn; the performance event Puppet Slam for the exhibition Objects Do Things, CCA – Center for Contemporary Art, Warszaw; a TED Talk about Depression in Animals for TEDxGhent, Ghent; Writing Performance, Kunstraum Kreuzlingen, Kreuzlingen; Therapy for Drones at Salon Nomade, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, Berlin (all in 2016); Liberty Taken, An international festival of arts in the city of Bombay, Bombay (2015); Midsummer Night Scream, De Appel arts centre, Amsterdam (2015); Grammatik, Nationalmuseum, Berlin (2015); No Bad Days, Konstmuseum Kalmar, Kalmar (2015); Wo der Ort beginnt, Neue Berliner Räume at Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin (2015); Vols et Chants, The Office, Paris (2015); The reluctant narrator, Museo Berardo, Lisbon (2015); Figures of Conjunction, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nürnberg (2014); A lecture on a lecture, CentrePasqArt, Biel/Bienne (2014); Pecha Kucha: The Bet, Kunst-Werke – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2013); Videonale.14 – Festival for Contemporary Video Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn (2013); HOTAVANTGARDEHOTHOT, Oslo10, Basel (2012); Nach Bonn – Eine Montage, Kunstverein Bonn (2012); An exhibition of a Study on Knowledge, Forum Stadtpark, Graz (2012); Hard for the money, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (2011); Touched, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool (2010); Eclats, CEAAC, Strasbourg (2010) and is currently preparing new works for the Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, Vigeland Museum, Oslo (2017).