I Hear a New World! Revamping Public Programing with Joy
Friday Beyeler
16.9. – 16.12.2022
Curated by Chus Martínez
Phoenix Atala, Ana Balan & Maxime Graff, Viggo Bang-Larsen Martinez, Paloma Bosquê, Raffaela Boss, Andra Anna Boukharta, Saturne Camus-Govoroff, Noa and Lara Castro, Wren Cellier, Pauline Coquart, Nadine Cueni, Sofia Durrieu, Hana El-Sagini, Onome Ekeh, Gerome Gadient, Sebastian Gysin, Arbion Hamdiu & Yukari Egger, Alma Herrmann, Susi Hinz, Pat Homse, Charlotte Horn, Golnaz Hosseini, Yao Hsiao-Yen, Jonas Huldi & Colin Barth, Esther Hunziker, Impossible Territories, Astrit Ismaili, Ana Jikia, Sophie Jung, Katharina Kemmerling & Laurie Mlodzik, Birgit Kempker, Pallavi Keshri, Tobias Koch, Lysann König & Simon Sauerkraut, Elise Lammer & ALPINA HUUS, Till Langschied, Quinn Latimer, Sunil Lopez + Victor Carrascosa, Tiphanie Mall, Floris Maniscalco, Claire Megumi Masset, Elena Matamoro, Marc Milohnic, Val Minnig, Anina Müller, Mariana Murcia, Arbesa Musa, Ingo Niermann, Jacob Ott, Joan Pallé, Marçal Parramon & Camil Arcarazo, Timo Paris, PRICE, Filipa Ramos, Michael Ray-Von, Marion Ritzmann, Nadiia Rohozhyna, Sergio Rojas Chaves, Mathilde Rosier, Maria Sabato, Nelson Schaub, Sarina Scheidegger, Alessandro Schiattarella & Manuel Justo, Odilia Senn & Franca Zanetti, Fabio Sonego, Stas Sharifullin, Alan Sierra, Lukas Stäuble, Reinhardt Storz, Lena Maria Thüring, Raquel Fernandez Villalobos, Hannah Weinberger, among others
Edited by Chus Martínez
Published by Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, and Fondation Beyeler
Texts: Chus Martínez, Ingo Niermann
Basel, 2023
English, 80 pages, 23 x 34 cm, numerous color images, soft cover
Design: Ana Dominguez Studio
Printed by: DZA-Druckerei zu Altenburg GmbH
Available at the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW → contact or at CIVIC bookshop, HGK Basel FHNW
“In all my years of curatorial work, the most fascinating part has been the encounter with the public, with multiple publics. It is also the most difficult part, the most epidermal, in which we are most exposed to the viewers’ reactions, to what they expect and what bothers them.”
Chus Martínez
Fondation Beyeler’s invitation to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary in collaboration with the Institute Art Gender Nature at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW surely stemmed from the intention to co-invent a different public program together. With the excuse that many years ago, where Fondation Beyeler stands today, there had been a museum dedicated to cats, we decided to compose a program in homage to the natural and feline world: Friday Beyeler. I Hear a New World – 14 Miaows of the Future.
This series of fourteen Friday evenings became something unique that we had never experienced before in any institution. The mixture of thoughtful and attentive spontaneity with a theme in honor of another species. The will to create a space of union and trust with the public. The ability and flexibility to link music, performance, dance, poetry, and spoken word… The creation of a collective show supported in equal parts by the wonderful public program team at Fondation Beyeler, the team of teachers and students at the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW, and the public resulted in something unprecedented that we will always remember.
We decide to do a publication about the Friday Beyeler. I Hear a New World – 14 Miaows of the Future series because we soon realized that the format, the way artists activated the space and the audience, was unique and needed to be reflected about. A book is another way of sharing this experience with those that did not have a chance to be with us and hopefully engage in a conversation with other art professionals interested in discovering ways of being together with the audience and with contemporary artists.