Abstract (eng)
In the œuvre of Markus Schinwald pictured and acting bodies form “stages”, at which “individuality” and “culture” act on or interact. So far, this topic and numerous connected discourses held the main focus of attention. The center of my investigation is laid on the “script”.
Deformed and deforming objects always precede formations and in fact, formations seem to be in several levels the starting point of Schinwald’s conceptions. At the beginning there is mostly something that is either in its state, in the program it follows or intuitively perceived as “normal” and therefore, isn’t questioned any further. For the realization of his projects, the artist uses something that is already made. Single works got in comparisons with other positions of artistic appropriation contextualized. In terms of content, Sigmund Freud’s comprehension of civilization as an (inadequate) “helping program” (see >Civilization ant Its Discontents<) was of significance because with the help of that, cultural regulations could be defined clearly. Furthermore, even at the level of the reception programmed was of importance; the artist uses incorporated movements of his recipients in a strategic way.
Familiar formations are a significant precondition and also an important part of Markus Schinwald’s de-formations. The everyday context or to formulate it more precisely, the ordinary, all that disappears from our consciousness (when there is not enough historical, local and social distance), arouses attention in its modified form. It was possible to show, that the artist interferes relatively systematically into the so-called “preexistent” by deforming “patterns (of behavior)” and as a consequence, he unmasks it as something genuinely developed. Within the field of art, he goes – by re-staging single works – further with that instability. For that purpose, I draw on Nicolas Bourriaud’s term of >postproduction<, with which he describes the handling with precarious materials in contemporary art. With a rational perspective, Schinwald shows constructions, which could be characterized like that, but which could also be different. Intuitively the deformed could be experienced as something uncanny (see Sigmund Freud, >The uncanny<), because it “secretly express the familiar”.