Heyer Thurnheer
photography - installation - objects - performance - publication - social-social - drawing - video
Contextual Art, which started after the 1980s, resists like Fluxus - which began in the 1960s as an international network of artists, composers, and designers - the categorization as an art movement, collective, or group. It also contradicts traditional geographical, chronological and medium-based approaches. Instead, Contextual Art participants like Thurnheer, like Fluxus-Artists, practice a “do-it-yourself” approach, relating to activities of everyday life and to the viewers' experiences. Offering a fresh assessment and attitude, these works and installations are designed to encourage cultural exchange and multiple discourse about our own (the world's citizens) position in regards to the global and focus key themes of the evidence of human existence.
As art production, Contextual Art distinguishes itself by emphasizing art's historical, cultural, and social contexts, with experimentation and interpretation as integral parts for the societal program of self-design.