Lost in Shrubland Manifest
2019
Article in VECTOR magazine #9 Munich. It is a collage of photos, texts and drawings that was created at the same time as the solo exhibition of the same name at Galería Aural in Alicante.
Each issue of the magazine focuses on one city and a selection of artists. It has been published in New York, Bergen, Oslo, Toronto and Berlin, among other places.
VECTOR is an international Artist Journal based in New York that publishes a collection of essays by contemporary artists. Each issue focuses on a different city, inviting 25 artists to contribute an essay. The topic is up to each artist. Thus each magazine depicts the art scene of the city and reflects the mood of the time. VECTOR is not available in book stores. You can get it for free at the launch event.
VECTOR was founded by Peter Gregorio and Javier Barrios.
They write:
It's propose is to spread the ideas and work of visual artists around the world.
We believe passionately that the power of the Artists Vision is a driving force in the evolution of attitudes, ideas, and culture; which must be enhanced to challenge and inspire the world. Our mission is to build a database of knowledge; online, in publication, through events, exhibitions, and lectures
When an art magazine published by artists provides artists with blank, layout-free pages to express themselves beyond the art documentary nature of a catalogue, using freely chosen means...
I am lost in shrubland
I am lost in shrubland
shrubland is the place between everything else
I feel like I am always lost inbetween and it is time now to get comfortable there
shrubland is a state of mind
it is the feeling of
it is the result of leaving the establishes structures
in order to find new and more fitting ones.
But I never arrived.
I often don´t feel (like a) part of society.
So therefore I used to have a quite negative idea of community.
...this can certainly be understood as a gentle signal of self-empowerment.
but I would like to transform
Be part of the bigger picture
In recent years I slowly started to understand that community is actually the "sense of family"
with all living beings.
maybe even with those who don´t seem to live (such as stones, chairs, cars...mobile phones)
I want to be
in service to nature
and this whole big family.
That doesn not only mean the aspect of being
food for the wormy and maggots
after I passed away
but to truly contribute.
But how?
And what can be my most powerful
and authentic contribution?
Do you know yours?
Catalogues
| Adidal Abou-Chamat | Gretta Louw |
| Benjamin Bergmann | Michaela Melián |
| Roland Burkart | M+M |
| Jutta Burkhardt | Edie Monetti |
| Federico Delfrati | Herbert Nauderer |
| Judith Egger | Olaf Nicolai |
| Alina Grasmann | Susanne Pittroff |
| Barbara Herold | Julian Rosefeldt |
| Ralf Homann | Philipp Stähle |
| Magdalena Jetelová | Angela Stiegler |
| Franka Kaßner | Tamiko Thiel |
| Lars Koepsel | Veronika Veit |
| Peter Kogler |
