Game Changers

Joanna Warsza

Apr — Jul 18

urban space Munich

The photograph shows the interior of the Olympic Stadium at night. It features the artist Massimo Furlan in a green and black football shirt, seen from behind, standing in a goal. The green football turf stretches out in front of him, but he is the only player on the pitch. The score of this fictitious football match appears on a scoreboard high above the spectator stands: "GDR against FRG - 0 to 0".

Massimo Furlan's Reenactment of the 1974 World Cup football match GDR - FRG, 2018 © Foto: Sandra Singh

In a time of drastic changes, “Game Changers” consistently focused on performative art in urban space: Moments, not Monuments.

PAM 2018 addressed the mechanisms of change and the fundamental shifts taking place today from the vantage point of Munich’s history and present—a city that has experienced tremendous ideological, sociopolitical, and symbolic turns. The commissioned art projects span from the Bavarian Soviet Republic, post-war denazification, Radio Free Europe, May 1968, the optimism of the Munich Olympic Stadium, 1989, the welcoming of the refugees at Munich’s central station in 2015 to the impacts of digitalization, artificial intelligence or the #MeToo movement. The question was not whether to take part but rather how and on what terms. What should change and what shouldn’t?

www.pam2018.de

Artists

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Cana Bilir-Meier, Anders Eiebakke, Leon Eixenberger, Massimo Furlan, Mariam Ghani, Flaka Haliti & Markus Miessen, Rudolf Herz & Julia Wahren, Alexander Kluge, Anna McCarthy & Gabi Blum, Michaela Melián, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Dan Perjovschi, Alexandra Pirici & Jonas Lund, Olaf Nicolai, Studierende der Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Der 9. Futurologische Kongress/Julieta Aranda & Mareike Dittmer, Franz Wanner, Aleksandra Wasilkowska