The term “mapping and rule management” conveys regulations, system, business talk. What happens when instructions or systematic sets of rules are removed from their context, aesthetically dissected and shifted? Renée Schauecker is interested in the world of rule systems. She collects terms from the field of PowerPoint presentations or researches the system language for installing a Windows programme. “Mind mapping” refers to the surveying or cartography of the mind, the realisation of thought processes or decision-making aids in graphic, visually comprehensible systems. The term “rule management” is derived from business rule management and refers to the business rules according to which a company functions.
In her exhibition, Renée Schauecker shows text panels, video works on smartphones and the “system installation” of a Windows programme. In the art space, the terms and system rules are laid out in all their absurdity. Although everything seems to follow a system, it remains an assertion and reveals all the more the vulnerability and inadequacy of the “system”.
As part of her exhibition, Renée Schauecker is showing the performance “Collapsing Compasses” at Perla-Mode. Wikipedia says: “A collapsing compass is a mathematical consideration that describes a compass that snaps when lifted off the page.” The radius is lost and cannot be repeated exactly; there are shifts and inaccuracies. Renée Schauecker uses this metaphor in her performance to thematise the documentation of performance art – a performance documents the documentation of a performance.
Born in (East) Berlin, Renée Schauecker studied religious studies and philosophy and then worked for many years in the world of advertising, management and programming. The language of management is therefore not simply an exotic subject for her. Renée Schauecker came to art relatively late in life. The artist thematises the rather unusual course of her life in the art world; in her video “no definition (cv performa)” she presents herself as another player and competitor in the art world. “Mapping and Rule Management” is Renée Schauecker’s first solo exhibition.