In his book How to Read a Film the author James Monaco poses the question whether sports could/should be understood as an art form, just like the Fine Arts, Performing Arts and others. Obviously there are parallels with drama, with performance, maybe even with literature and music. Considering the answer to that question positively, it should be possible to stage ‘Sport’ like an art exhibition.
Each room of the exhibition at ACC-Gallery in Weimar showed one specific aspect of sports: fans, doping, sports in TV and media, the human body, sports technology etc. Every room dealt differently with its topic: some displayed their theme traditionally on the wall, some worked with installations, with new media, or with interactive strategies. In the end, after the visitor experienced the whole show, he/she was supposed to have a – potentially subconscious – view of what ‘Sport’ are today.
Opening panel of Sport exhibition (April 2002) ‘Sports Shoes’ ready made by Andreas Jancke (April 2002) ‘Doping’ by Franziska Jyrch (April 2002) ‘Tennis’ video installation by Franziska Jyrch (April 2002) ‘Schwimmer’ by David Zintl (April 2002) ‘Kungfu’ video installation by Jan Gericke, and Martin Kleppe (April 2002) ‘Sport’ exhibition shot (April 2002) ‘Sport – Room 5’ exhibition shot (April 2002)