The experiment “impr.exe” is being conducted within a limited timeframe of 21 days, and exhibited in a confined space—the #Box at Werkplaats Typografie. The three week schedule gave the exhibition space its form, each column representing one day. This structure provides a platform to .exe[cute] impr.[ovisation]. In contrast to a pre-determined composition, improvisation here is regarded as a tool for focussing on one single aspect at a time, e.g. form, technique, material, content manipulation. The guidelines for the programme are: trying rather than planning, guessing rather than calculating; allowing for unsatisfying results. The resulting specimens are positioned into the schedule, while the programme of each day is summarized by captions. As a result a walk-in diary comes into being. In the course of this work the exhibition unintentionally became self-referential. That is to say, that the evolvement turned into a source material for itself, a tool to stay in the process of following the nose.

Sarah Käsmayr, “Impr.exe”
2 November–22 November, 2015, Closing: Friday, 20 November, 18:00

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