I\u2019m interested in post-representative strategies, in other words, I\u2019m exploring the question as to what can occur in museums or exhibitions that goes beyond representation, perhaps also goes against representation, or within the self-understanding of representation. I believe that representation is challenged where it is not clear in advance what should happen. And right there we\u2019re moving in a realm of the possible. Just like our conversation now, which was not to be prepared in detail, and indeed could not anyway. I\u2019m trying to get somewhere with you in this conversation, without knowing beforehand where we will end up. Most of what takes place on the exhibition circuit is representation. What can be done to leave behind representation and open up a space of possibility?
\nThe other thing is that we\u2019re both asking ourselves: what can one do at all? Perhaps there\u2019s not much one can do? What we can do at least is to shift the possible. I also wish to shift what is. But I feel that in exhibitions a great deal is set out in advance and rigidly classified. That\u2019s why I want to work on jolting what has become rigid. That \u2013 so my belief \u2013 cannot occur if I simply set out something equally rigid on my own, but rather only when something emerges, out of working with others, in which the rigidly codified is jolted. In this process I always encounter my own rigidness, because I\u2019m an actor in this field who pursues specific interests, careerisms and all that. I thus hope that encounters with others who are also seeking to agitate help me to cast off my rigid habits. All this can take place in a space of possibility: a shifting of what we imagine, of what we see, of what we can say, an intervention into what one may call the mighty hegemonic archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"