Helene von Oldenburg, Claudia Reiche

- Invitation to a participatory art project -

The project CIVIL WILDERNESS does [not] define wilderness in terms of civilisation. CIVIL

WILDERNESS declares areas as 'wild': under certain conditions.

condition # 23 - "No prohibitions apply here." ("No prohibitions apply here.")

duration - 02/20/2021 -

location - 53° 8! 48.743" N , 8° 10! 52.741" E

Civil Wilderness #23 has been placed for the time being in a garden "Prinzenpark", surrounded by teaching and working facilities of the "Institute of Art and Visual Culture", University of Oldenburg, Germany.

context - This Civil Wilderness refers as much to a defined geo-location as it is dedicated to concepts, loosely linked with the "Institute of Art and Visual Culture", by means of an example and within a network of cooperations. This Civil Wilderness #23 has been conceived on the occasion of "QUE(E)RULIERT! Practices of Disruption in Art / Media / Science", online conference July 2-3, 2021, curated by Oliver Klaassen and Lena Radtke from the aforementioned Institute: "The conference invites to positively redefine and recast que(e)rulating as an artistic as well as art and media studies practice and (research) attitude." / "The conference invites to positively reassign and recast que(e)rulation as an artistic as well as art- and media-studies practice and (research-)attitude."

subject - The reputed past of the Institute as a hotspot of gender studies - gender and queer studies and art -

gender and queer studies and art - its potential future too, is subject of this Civil

Wilderness. What happens under current and upcoming changes of political 'climate',

turning against so-called 'genderism' today? Is it possible to document changes with onsite

observations, oral history, statistics or else

participation - Please send your comments, observations, memorabilia and wild guesses

guesses, texts, images, video and audio files etc. to words@civilwilderness.info for

publication here, with or without adding your name.

Contributions in German are just as welcome as in English.

web - civilwilderness.info/civil-wilderness-23/

contact -

element of - civilwilderness.info