Exhibition

Cornelia Sollfrank
For this exhibition Cornelia Sollfrank realized a whole new work in the trouble spot between a current artistic practice and the laws in force.
Opening hours during Viper-Festival: 19./20./21./22. Nov. 11am-8pm


Sollfranks original project for the [plug.in] exhibition was to display a series of images which were produced by her net art generator. The net art generator uses pictures with Andy Warhol flower paintings and reassembles them to create new images. This project would not have been in accordance with the law and could therefore not be realized. As a consequence, Cornelia Sollfrank visits several lawyers specialized in intellectual property right with a camera team. She asks the lawyers about the possibilities of displaying her work in [plug.in] an about the legal risks. The interviews address the limitations of the artistic freedom, which is granted by the basic rights of most countries. It asks about the violations against intellectual property, which are committed by a computer program, by any internet user, and by an artistic practice which is becoming more and more important in a contemporary cultural discours. The beautiful and visually seducing Andy-Warhol-flower-pictures are at the core of the interviews, but must remain absent in the exhibition. What becomes visible instead is the boundary, where it’s no longer artists but lawyers and laws which take decisions on cultural developments: The legal perspective as a continuation of the central perspective.

copy-create-manipulate is a program part of the Viper Fetival 04 curated by [plug.in]

See also:

copyleft

VIPER, Basel

Cornelia Sollfrank