{"id":36619,"date":"2023-03-28T10:19:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T08:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/?p=36619"},"modified":"2023-03-28T22:45:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T20:45:03","slug":"artistic-friendship-meeting-between-the-lines-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/artistic-friendship-meeting-between-the-lines-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Artistic Friendship \u2013 Meeting Between the Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[357],"project_type":[848,725,726,735,736,739,743],"class_list":["post-36619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-solitude-blog","project_type-artist-residencies","project_type-formats","project_type-text","project_type-spheres-of-practice","project_type-textual","project_type-visual","project_type-themes"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Bild(er)","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"img_gallery":true,"img":[36579],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Bild(er)","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[36587],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Bild(er)","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[36613],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Bild(er)","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[36583],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Bild(er)","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[36581],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Bild(er)","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[36569],"img_gallery_format":"is-3by4"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Bild(er)","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[36590],"img_gallery_format":"is-3by4"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"Usually, when someone asks us how we know each other, we say: We are Solitude sisters<\/em>. We arrived at Akademie Schloss Solitude the same day and were shown around the house together. We lived on top of each other: We could hear each other walk or type on the typewriter or hammer nails into the walls. We couldn\u2019t hear the letters or the lines settling on the off-white paper in black or gray, but somehow we did anyway. We met exactly two years ago, but in cat years or work years, it feels like around twenty.\r\n\r\nSolitude<\/em> also as an innermost state: being used to sitting alone in front of paper \u2013 digital or analogue. Hearing one\u2019s own breath echoing between ribcage and mountain range. Smelling the damp darkness of sleep while turning a white oval into the roundness of a moment \u2013\u00a0thanks to the habit of starting to work before taking a shower and then, in the early afternoon, still wearing the nightgown. Still, we weren\u2019t just medium-clean loners before we met; we had initiated projects and collaborations and we were proud and glad to have longstanding ones. But while one does work, that is, getting whirled away in the sea of graphite, of consonants, it\u2019s downright impossible to imagine that someone is just next door, also in their pajamas, also happily exhausted. One just holds onto a little piece of driftwood with both hands and brain halves and heart chambers, and that\u2019s that.\r\n\r\nWhen we say sisters<\/em>, we mean that deep familiarity that needs no explanation and is a full embrace up front. We have spent three months living at each other\u2019s places since we were fellows at Akademie Schloss Solitude, split between London and Berlin and Biel. It all began when we saw that our methods are related: both of us work with constraints, that is, more or less complicated rules or sets of rules that determine what can or cannot be done. The French writer\u2019s group Oulipo, which also worked heavily with constraints, put it like this: Oulipians must be like rats who build the labyrinth from which they propose to escape. Rats probably wearing pajamas while stacking brick after brick. The escape, the rooftop of freedom that can be reached only within the limitations is what makes this method so effervescent. What we achieve by subjecting ourselves to rigidity is a raw gentleness, a precarious intimacy, and often surprising immediacy. A page or sheet of paper that suddenly stares back.\r\n\r\nWhile it seems very natural to us that we collaborate and thus are part of each other\u2019s lives, it is probably important that we are not siblings. We had to find each other; had to walk past a lot of bricks and bridges and bookshops and doubts and bus stops and bakeries to have our paths cross. In fact, we even both lived in Berlin for a while as we both studied at the UdK (different departments, though, and a couple of years apart) and both were in Istanbul that one summer, working with the same gallery. Yet, we didn\u2019t meet. Solitude, the white oval on a hilltop, did that for us. We met in an unmarked space, and this seems significant. It is a privileged blank, ready to be inhabited, not already crowded with all those people we once have been.\r\n\r\nIt is, in a way, the utopia which Luce Irigaray has in mind when she reminded us how to welcome the Other as guest: It certainly is good to have a spare room or corner where a guest can be put up and it is good to share with them whatever we have. But nevertheless this arrangement means that the Other is incorporated into our world, has to blend in all the little habits and arrangements that have, over time, become ourselves. In order to meet the other as Other, it would be desirable, says Irigaray, to not have a place ready, but to build a new one. A space that can become a world that truly is the Other\u2019s. Only then we can meet: \u00bbin fact, proximity to the Other and closeness between us can be reached when engendering a common world together, a world that will not destroy the world which is proper to each one.\u00ab\r\n

Text by Regina D\u00fcrig\r\nDrawings by Patrizia Bach. Copyrights are held exclusively by the artist.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n "},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_footnotes","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Fu\u00dfnoten","bgcolor":"","footnotes_list_hide_numbers":false,"footnotes":[{"footnote":"Zum Konvolut F119<\/em> is a text-drawing dialogue that playfully challenges written history: based on Patrizia\u2019s TOMIKO Archive, an extensive collection of amateur photographs, we both artistically answer one photograph at a time and, in a second step, each other\u2019s reaction. We crate four answers that are, in fact, one question: How can alternative histories be told?"},{"footnote":"Federn lassen<\/em> is a collection of prose fragments (Droschl, 2021) circling around subtle and sharp-edged shapes of day-to-day assault. Regina invited Patrizia to make a series of drawings based on her text, to visually balance the voicelessness. Originally conceptualized to accompany the texts in the book, the drawings now are a piece and space on their own."}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"has-bg-grey","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

Regina D\u00fcrig<\/strong><\/span> is a writer, performer and teacher. A central aspect of her artistic work is the collaboration with other disciplines, particularly the work in the Stories & Sounds-Duo Butterland<\/em>. Regina was distinguished with numerous awards, with the Peter-H\u00e4rtling Preis and with the Literaturpreis des Kantons Bern, among others.<\/p>\r\n

Patrizia Bach<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0practices drawing as main medium, while other subjects like archiving, collecting and reorganizing as well as the big city as memory store form the core interests of her artworks, which she develops mostly over several years.\u00a0She received numerous scholarships, among others the Global-Stipendium des Berliner Senats and the DAAD-Stipendium f\u00fcr Bildende Kunst.<\/p>"}],"intro_preview_headline":"","intro_preview_txt":"Despite years of narrowly missing each other in life, visual artist Patrizia Bach and writer Regina D\u00fcrig finally connected at the artists\u2019 residency program Akademie Schloss Solitude. Their shared time bloomed into sisterhood. Like feeling for something together that each could not grasp on their own. This profound exchange between two artists is part of the publication On Care. A Journey into the Relational Nature of Artists' Residencies<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","intro_preview_img":36250,"post_id_old":"","post_author":null,"post_subtitle":"by Patrizia Bach and Regina D\u00fcrig","post_preview_img_hide_on_single":true,"post_txt_old":"","post_pdf":"","post_copyright":"ccl_default","translated_post":false,"translations":null,"post_copyright_individual":"","post_related_posts":[36287,36296,36173],"related_posts_post":[6983,6985]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36619\/revisions"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/6985"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/6983"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36173"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36296"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=36619"},{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=36619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}