Tanja Widmann
dal 28/11/2012 al 9/2/2013
Segnalato da
28/11/2012
Tanja Widmann
Tranzitdisplay, Prague
Eine von Euch (one of you). Following from historical concepts of video-based performance, Widmann investigates the potential of language in both its openness and its intrinsic logic, as well as in its function as a social instrument of power.
Tanja Widmann creates her artistic works based on an interest in the potency of language and its role in the performative construction of subjectivity. By tying into historical concepts of video-based performance, she explores the techniques of reproduction, memory, and repetition, but also the counterpart of the (camera) apparatus as a machine facilitating recording, affect, and interpretation. Here language is examined as to its conventionality and regularity, with its ambiguity and fundamental openness simultaneously fathomed.
In the exhibition, Widmann arranges various media and materials in an open and installative way. The montage approach underlying the video-performance scripts is carried forth in the exhibition space, which now allows heterogeneous elements to uniquely encounter one another, such as psychoanalysis, primate research, early speeches given by Margaret Thatcher, contemporary art blogs, but also a Versace collection for H&M and embroidery patterned in speculative constellations. Political-economic discourse and feminist leanings are visited, as are questions exploring the connections between artistic authorship, collective production, and the status of artwork, commodity, or object.
Tanja Widmann (*1966 in Villach, Austria) lives and works in Vienna. She is an artist, author, curator and lecturer at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Numerous performances, exhibitions and contributions to exhibitions, most recently including Generali Foundation, Vienna (2011), Manifesta 8, Murcia (2010), Augarten Contemporary (2009) and kunstraum lakeside, Klagenfurt (2009).
main partner ERSTE Foundation
support Ministry of Culture, City of Prague, Prague 2 Municipality
media partner A2 cultural bi-weekly, Rádio1
The exhibition is produced in cooperation with Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, and tranzitdisplay, Prague.
Thanks to the Austrian Cultural Forum in Prague and the Kultur Kärnten.
Opening: Thursday 29.11. from 7 p.m.
Tranzitdisplay
Dittrichova 9/337, Prague 2, CZ
opening hours Tue-Sun 12.00 noon - 6.00 p.m.