On 1st October 2006 (one sunday) we closed the Intermediate Spaces at ESC & Steirischer Herbst in Graz / Austria. Until 15th of October it will remain there just as an exhibition. From 6th November to 10th November 2006 there will be the Ljubljana / Slovenia part at Kapelica gallery.

Big thanks to you all, who took time to attend and contribute at the Grazer part(y) – no matter how long you stayed and if you were participants or attendants.

Those among us, who were there for longer, had an opportunity to experience various phases of highs and lows, but we are now much more connected, which is a great promise for future collaborations.

With the visitors it was always about the same – on the low edge – but the participants were often drawn together on a couple of dinner eventsat ESC gallery, that were going on from tuesday to the last sunday. There were always about 13 to 15 people present (which is more than at the Christ’s last supper). But the public wasn’t really crowdy at any of the other exhibiting places, so that we can maybe event externalize this problem (“it was not us, but the broader situation…”).

After frst days we learned how to deal without the audience, but those who came were more or less swiftly included into any events.

For some compressed moments in such future occasions it would probably be necessary to define the time of events more precisely. This brings us closer to normal methods of art representation and away from more integrating methods. But we made other compromises already.

Also it would be nice that the active participants would be present more of the time, but the way to achieve this should in my opinion remain something unpredictable and magical – and not forced, paid&bought, manipulated or ideological in any other way. The decision should remain individual.

At some occasions of self-sufficient, non-communicative (only aestheticalč) interventions
another keyword / image came to my mind. An image of autistic artists (=>”artistic autists”) – a state of mind that is not a temporary state of exhaustion, but a long term state of illnes. It may be that the autism is one of the keywords in contemporary art – which is my critique of it, of course.

Your ideas on that are welcome.

Thanks!

Borutu Savasuki