bankleer: be headed by reality
notes on sculptural performances
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Beschreibung
The work of the bankleer artist duo moves between activism, sculptural performance, text, video, and sculpture, enacted in public spaces. The book be headed by reality offers insights into the work they have done in the last years. There is a particular focus on sculptural performance, in which the static nature of sculpture, its quality of enduring through time, and the vibrancy of street theater and demonstration, with their ability to make public interventions, are aesthetically combined to charge reality with counter-images and new imaginations of society. bankleer articulate the desire that underlies this approach as follows: “Wouldn’t it be great if art could help show that the world is not a collection of separate things, but a confluence of processes that encompass us?”
bankleer (Karin Kasböck / Christoph Maria Leitner) has been in existence since 1999, mostly working in Berlin. The pair see art as a practice that allows them to respond to social, political, and environmental events. Since 2025, they have been working together to develop the new Plastic and Environment degree program at the University of Arts Linz.
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