Eugen GeorgEugen Georg

Title thesis:
Trying to fit into the context;
Subject:
The power of the 'Trying to Fit into the Context', the graduation thesis by Eugen Georg is its utter failure to conform.
It is not a matter of an 'angry young man’s’ take on this part of the graduation demands, as can be noted considering the title it is a true attempt to be as honest as he can in trying to comply and to conform to all the demands concerning, yet avoiding a double bind situation and hypocritical ‘solutions’. The line of flight he ventures takes you on board as his companian and accomplice on this kaleidoscopic, and paranoiac travel of the migrant, the outcast, being the incarnated example of the diaspora after the fall of the Soviet empire.
No gravitational or founding point of reference seems to be at hand, and the impossibility of defining this ‘context’ to which he is supposed to comply, is exactly the point, through the course of its ‘argument’, he demonstrates. With this Sisyphussian labour Georg seems to struggle to lift this personal (at some points even autobiographical) level to concerns that run through out the aporia’s and gridlock situations in contemporary practice and debate. The brave, concluding maxim that runs through his monolgues, dialogues and meta-logues is the notion :
‘We have to do everything again’, as the only possible way out of the tortured and besieged situation the arts are held captive in. This maxim combined with a more general understanding of the title, is is as if Georg not only points to art’s difficulty to reformulate its position, and context of workings, but also that we have to rebuild at root level art’s new emergence and legitimization.
Link to thesis (PDF)

For quite some time I sit between paper. In a sea of paper. In waves of copies. In a Life work. In front of me photos of the dead Ulrike Meinhof. Around me photos of dead Gudrun Ensslin and Rudi Dutschke.
I try to formulate this carefully. I don’t know what needs to happen so that something happens.
Make banking boring! The non- conformists, not the conformists are the ones who are pushing the consuming spiral further. All roads lead to the supermarket. Even undistinguishable products need to be made distinguishable. It is not capitalism that causes innovation but a certain type of people. I do create right now in full awareness what will later be obsolete. You
are successfull, because you are 68
successful. Something is cool because its called cool. We do not have a knowledge – but an implementation problem. Capitalism died in 2008. He would have collapsed completely if the states had not saved him. We are witnessing the dictatorship of hedonism and libertinage. Enjoy immediately. What if in time…
You did suffer, you did obey, but you also realised something! As
a migrant you might not only be interrested in the French Revolution but also in today’s mainstream culture. Ok, i am not sure about all this. That’s why we have to think about how the future capitalism should look like?!
… And, of course there will be Art!

Title thesis:
Trying to fit into the context;
Subject:
The power of the 'Trying to Fit into the Context', the graduation thesis by Eugen Georg is its utter failure to conform.
It is not a matter of an 'angry young man’s’ take on this part of the graduation demands, as can be noted considering the title it is a true attempt to be as honest as he can in trying to comply and to conform to all the demands concerning, yet avoiding a double bind situation and hypocritical ‘solutions’. The line of flight he ventures takes you on board as his companian and accomplice on this kaleidoscopic, and paranoiac travel of the migrant, the outcast, being the incarnated example of the diaspora after the fall of the Soviet empire.
No gravitational or founding point of reference seems to be at hand, and the impossibility of defining this ‘context’ to which he is supposed to comply, is exactly the point, through the course of its ‘argument’, he demonstrates. With this Sisyphussian labour Georg seems to struggle to lift this personal (at some points even autobiographical) level to concerns that run through out the aporia’s and gridlock situations in contemporary practice and debate. The brave, concluding maxim that runs through his monolgues, dialogues and meta-logues is the notion :
‘We have to do everything again’, as the only possible way out of the tortured and besieged situation the arts are held captive in. This maxim combined with a more general understanding of the title, is is as if Georg not only points to art’s difficulty to reformulate its position, and context of workings, but also that we have to rebuild at root level art’s new emergence and legitimization.
Link to thesis (PDF)

For quite some time I sit between paper. In a sea of paper. In waves of copies. In a Life work. In front of me photos of the dead Ulrike Meinhof. Around me photos of dead Gudrun Ensslin and Rudi Dutschke.
I try to formulate this carefully. I don’t know what needs to happen so that something happens.
Make banking boring! The non- conformists, not the conformists are the ones who are pushing the consuming spiral further. All roads lead to the supermarket. Even undistinguishable products need to be made distinguishable. It is not capitalism that causes innovation but a certain type of people. I do create right now in full awareness what will later be obsolete. You
are successfull, because you are 68
successful. Something is cool because its called cool. We do not have a knowledge – but an implementation problem. Capitalism died in 2008. He would have collapsed completely if the states had not saved him. We are witnessing the dictatorship of hedonism and libertinage. Enjoy immediately. What if in time…
You did suffer, you did obey, but you also realised something! As
a migrant you might not only be interrested in the French Revolution but also in today’s mainstream culture. Ok, i am not sure about all this. That’s why we have to think about how the future capitalism should look like?!
… And, of course there will be Art!