LEHRSTUHL FÜR ROMANISCHE LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT UND KOMPARATISTIK Universität Bayreuth • 95440 Bayreuth
Prof. Dr. Ute Fendler
EXC Africa Multiple
Postanschrift: Postanschrift: Universität Bayreuth 95440 Bayreuth Universität Bayreuth
Artist Fellowship Programme
Gebäude: GW I 95440 Bayreuth Universitätsstraße 30 95447 Bayreuth Gebäude: GW I Telefon: 0921 / 55 30 - 3566/67 Universitätsstraße Telefax: 0921 / 55 - 3627 oder 3641 95447 Bayreuth e-mail: ute.fendler@uni-bayreuth.de Telefon: 0921/55-3567 Telefax: 0921/55-3627
04.12.2022
Internet: http://www.uni-bayreuth.de e-mail: Janos.Riesz@uni-bayreuth.de
Support Letter for the Application by Christine Dixie for the artist fellowship Dear Members of the MB and of the evaluation committee,
Christine Dixie was a guest of the Cluster in May 2022. The exhibition was a very great success and we were in contact ever since – also with the team of Iwalewahaus. In the meantime, Mrs Dixie has developed her project on “Las Meninas” further and had a very impressive exhibition in Johannesburg lately. If she would receive the fellowship, she would continue to work on the ideas of multiple and relational memories, the entanglement of the past and the present based on the former exhibitions, she would develop a new concept in and for Bayreuth in exchange with cluster members (members of RS Arts & Aesthetics, Knowledge as well as the JRG led by Cassandra Mark-Thiesen and Junior Fellows of BIGSAS whose research interests might be related to the complex topics that Mrs Dixie outlines in her project. We – the team of Iwalewahaus, Mrs Dixie and myself – are also thinking about additional spaces for exhibitions like the botanical garden, the central library of UBT and the townhall for more outreach potentials. Based on the experience of 2022, we would be looking forward to deepen the discussions around the topics raised by the art works of Christine Dixie that refer to the main cluster concepts like multiplicity, relationality and reflexivity and could even speak to modalities, medialities and spatialities. We intend to approach the concepts in several meetings and talks with the artist.
Sincerely,
Prof. Dr. Ute Fendler