Appearance in Super System

a project by Robert Estermann during Art Basel Miami Beach, December 1–4, 2011

Appearing in Super System seems almost impossible.
How to appear in Super System?


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Press Release
Appearance in Super System

Collins Park
2200 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139
USA

December 1–4, 2011
Scheduled events daily at 10am and 2pm
Meeting point: Collins Park
More info and updates on our blog appearanceinsupersystem.info

In “Appearance in Super System”, Robert Estermann raises questions about the conditions in which art is made, as a form of action based on aesthetic speculation. With the help of some lightweight props, Estermann and his assistant Griffin will hold a series of scheduled events in the form of performative lectures in the Collins Park and at the nearby beach, as well as taking part in numerous encounters with individual people during Art Basel Miami Beach. These include “Appearances,” in which individuals are asked to figure out and to perform a subtle gesture or a movement of their body that they have never done before, as a “rite of passage” to the realization of themselves as speculative beings. All these events will be documented in the blog appearanceinsupersystem.info.
Known for his drawings, performances, and installations, Estermann regards the gesture as having the sense of a radical claim, and also urgency, as it becomes an increasingly versatile aesthetic tool of translation between artistic, social, and scientific expression. In an age of touch sensitive electronic devices, human gestures are supposed to have more power than ever before. What happens when people reinvest the same powerful gestures back into the physical space?

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Dec. 2011 Miami Beach