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Asking questions! It is the motor of movement and change. How can we show contemporary art to people? How do we illustrate that space and time are dealt with differently now, how do we show the changes that can also be noted in other fields of society? Where? On places without an art history or future. How? By stimulating the necessary vulnerability of the invited artists and proposing them a place of 'incubation', as a consequence of which the navel string with habit and the casualness of circumstances is cut.
The locations chosen by the artist to incubate are no studios, no exhibition places. They are temporary passages, where "coming and going" does not refer to beginning and end, but rather evokes simultaneity. Allowing artists to surf under the surface of unfamiliar circumstances. Generating vitality without aiming at a result. Everyting is temporary and can also go wrong. In this vulnerabilty lies the incubation power.
The incubation is not a whim but a refusal, together with a whole lot of artists, to come to a standstill in safety and fossilize in commercial, institutional, bourgeois or political hypocrisy. Incubation is mental deflation, the oxygen we need to imagine significantly the contemporary over and over again. It is remarkable how stagnated and surpassed "showing things" sounds to us. In this respect it is becoming more and more obvious that the "Kunsthalle projects" can no longer be considered as finality as such, but above all they are "sequences" that are characterised in time rather by temporariness than by finality. Could it be that visual art (projects) is (are) more scaffold than building? Time as art form. Call it unfinished; we call it 'in process'. So not the linear form pattern of the well known 'in progress', but the work of art that no longer needs a physical movable form and that's why it can temporarily exist in the space without beginning or end. Consequently the character of the incubation itself, which is for an outsider rather chaotic and uncontrollable, is very attractive from the perspective of place (space) and origin (time). Thus it is not important whether there is a lot or very little to see in the incubation places, but it are rather the dicretion and the subsequent existence of seeing as such that matter, or how we try to give 'back' a disarming significance to the act of looking. Incubating is indeed holding a mirror of uncertainty and vulnerability to whoever is involved.
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