About
Edith Kollath and Anne Brannys are artists, researchers and authors. They work in and about contemporary art, theories and practices of artistic research, forms of collaboration. They are interested in new work and post-capitalist strategies, relationality and forms of dissolution, new approaches to materials and atmospheres, hospitality, complicity and enablement. Edith Kollath and Anne Brannys work with image-text entanglements, installation and performance. They teach, curate and write.
In every sense, we are interwoven with our concerns.
We focus our interest and our force on something that we create together. And we take care of what has been created, but also of ourselves as working partners. Our companionship of many years and our working processes are explored in different artistic research projects: With our doctoral theses, An Encyclopedia of Tenderness (Anne Brannys) and Respiration Essays: Of Phenomena of Contingency Based on a Breathing Movement (Edith Kollath), which were carried out at the Bauhaus University Weimar, we have started positioning ourselves correspondingly in the field.
To understand present, highly complex concepts, facts, and contexts we create polyphonic formats together. We devote ourselves to them using different artistic-scholarly methods.
In the joint projects Choral Conjunctions and Hope Chorus we examine the chorus as a social phenomenon. We focused on the concept of artistic research itself in the exhibition project More Planets Less Pain at Kunsthalle Erfurt and ACC Gallery Weimar. In the Gesellschaft für künstlerische Forschung Deutschland (Society for Artistic Research Germany) we co-founded the working group Vis-à-vis, in which we test and discuss formats as much as questions of the in-between.
Our approach is corresponding, aesthetic-respiratory, encyclopedic, cho(ra)llective, arranging. Thereby we search for correspondences between content and form. Since our research concepts cannot be determined entirely from a singular perspective, multi-perspectivity is elementary: We listen to external voices but also to our own artistic, intellectual, and somatic ones.