Vernissage as a virus
Connie Mendoza

Today, Gallery T4: The invitation to participate in this exhibition, which opens a new platform for an exhibition as a medium between artists, curators and collectors is to be seen rather as a collaboration with the gallery than as a pure exhibition place for a corpse with an immune appearance.

This collaboration wants to provoke a reflexion about the methods and models how galleries establish themselves as hygenic containers, as desinfected areas free of any social deseases to offer a piece of art in a suitable environment for aseptic examination through aesthetical caretakers, specialists who first auscultate it, to give it back analysed to the collective consciousness. The vernissage as a virus wants to inject, in the very moment of the emergence of the gallery, a virus wich provokes debates with the exteriour debates which infect their own schemes of action to benefit a device of „assisted respiration“, a device which is not only devoted to the logic of the market and the institutional conditions, but a device which is open to symbolic promiscuity of the environment the first introduction of a viral discussion starts with a serious of three inaugurations.

The opening can act as a proper patology of art, which permits to define the individual state of those who take part in the institution-Art. The opening as an event reveals symptoms of a conscious „illness of art“ and these micro deliriums could create a risk for the hygenic autonomy of art. This first event invites specialists and those, who are not familiar to the somatic variations of art, to redefine the prophylactic models of art.