Being Human
Interactive installation and artist's talk
Zurich artist Patrick Graf creates new worlds full of fantasy and (black) humour in his colourful, wild paintings, drawings, texts and objects. With project Mensch zu Sein («Being Human») he invites us into a space-filling installation, created especially for the SURVIVAL KIT 2 in which we stride through a whole life, from birth to death, in fast motion. Here existence confronts us as a game in which we must collect points to make progress and in which we cannot make all the decisions ourselves. From the comforting warm placenta to schooldays to adult life which is symbolised by market place. After a phase as a pensioner we finally arrive in an old people’s home and from then on we totter unsteadily towards death. In his life installation Patrick Graf plays with stereotypes which we have from life, people and occupational groups and shows us the limits of our freedom to shape our lives. The artist will mostly be present during the show, giving instructions for the game and using a part of the exhibition space as a studio.