Thomas Arzt
Volkan Aslan
Tarek Atoui
Neïl Beloufa
Luo Bing
Brad Butler
Banu Cennetoglu
Keti Chukhrov
Antonio Cosentino
Tim Crouch
Burak Delier
Elmas Deniz
Carola Dertnig
J. C. Duenkel
Jimmie Durham
Barbara Ehnes
Gustav Ernst
Tim Etchells
Süreyyya Evren
Antonio Fian
Franzobel
İnci Furni
Dora Garcia
Thomas Glavinic
Dmitri Gutov
Wang Haian
Wen Hui
Hannah Hurtzig
Elfriede Jelinek
Anna Jermolaewa
Schorsch Kamerun
Hassan Khan
Julius Koller
Chris Kondek
KwieKulik
Mapa Teatro
Zhang Mengqi
Karen Mirza
Rabih Mroue'
Jia Nannan
Marina Naprushkina
Henrik Olesen
Boris Ondreicka
Ontroerend Goed
Yasemin Özcan
Mustafa Erdem Ozler
İz Oztat
Ewald Palmetshofer
Judith Nika Pfeifer
Shu Qiao
Nuno Ramos
Milo Rau
Navin Rawanchaikul
Ad Reinhardt
David Riff
Kathrin Roggla
Pedro Romero
Ferdinand Schmatz
Franz Schuh
Tino Sehgal
Akira Takayama
Vladimir Tatlin
Miguel Ventura
Tris Vonna
Michell
Jeronimo Voss
Wu Wenguang
Tanja Widmann
Dilek Winchester
Li Xinmin
Zou Xueping
Karl Baratta
Stefanie Carp
Matthias Pees
Hedwig Saxenhuber
Georg Schollhammer
Imagining the Political Subject. The exhibition is dedicated to these forms and formats. For this group show, all Secession rooms and adjacent exhibition areas at both the Academy of Fine Arts and the MuseumsQuartier will be transformed into a parcours - a walking tour that exploores the agora of the future at the interface between visual and performing arts.
Curated by Karl Baratta, Stefanie Carp, Matthias Pees, Hedwig Saxenhuber, and Georg Schöllhammer
Display: Johannes Posch
Unrest of Form. Imagining the Political Subject
Since new protest movements have been arising worldwide, often unforeseen and with sheer inexhaustible energy, many people in the artistic-cultural field who solidarise with these movements are asking a number of questions: can contemporary art advance the resistance against disastrous economic structures if it has itself a definite and profitable share in them? Or have the true potentials of art—i.e. the difficult, the nonconformist—already been liquidated behind the façades of its spaces still conceived as free? Mustn't the project of a political aesthetics transcending all types of activism suitable for media exploitation be considered aborted and suppressed, tortured and tortuous, hard to reinstall? Isn't Adorno's dictum again apt today, namely that art can no longer intervene, precisely because it is received and responded to; and because even its boldest expressions are no longer safe from the integral economy of culture?
Yet, for us, this situation of aporia, of historicity, of apparent entrapment seems to harbour a moment of utopia that can be triggered today: artistic imaginations of a political subject that refer to forms and formats that go beyond the genre of short-lived artistic agitation and their parading in the space of art.
Wiener Festwochen 2013 will dedicate the exhibition Unrest of Form. Imagining the Political Subject to these forms and formats. For this project, the Vienna Secession, the Academy of Fine Arts and adjacent public areas at the MuseumsQuartier will serve as a stage at the interface between visual and performing arts. The project will examine and negotiate perceptions and blueprints for an idea of a "politics of form." For the duration of the exhibition, artistic interventions, lectures, seminars, films and performances will enliven the ensemble; these events are conceived as integral components of the exhibition concept. The group show will feature works by artists with backgrounds in the visual arts, theatre, dance, music, performance art and literature; the wide variety of their approaches will lend.
Participating artists:
Thomas Arzt*, Volkan Aslan, Tarek Atoui*, Neïl Beloufa*, Luo Bing, Brad Butler, Banu Cennetoğlu*, Keti Chukhrov, Antonio Cosentino, Tim Crouch, Burak Delier, Elmas Deniz, Carola Dertnig*, J. C. Duenkel, Jimmie Durham*, Barbara Ehnes, Gustav Ernst*, Tim Etchells, Süreyyya Evren, Antonio Fian*, Franzobel*, İnci Furni, Dora García*, Thomas Glavinic*, Dmitri Gutov*, Wang Haian, Wen Hui, Hannah Hurtzig*, Elfriede Jelinek, Anna Jermolaewa, Schorsch Kamerun*, Hassan Khan*, Julius Koller*, Chris Kondek*, KwieKulik*, Mapa Teatro, Zhang Mengqi, Karen Mirza, Rabih Mroué, Jia Nannan, Marina Naprushkina, Henrik Olesen*, Boris Ondreička*, Ontroerend Goed, Yasemin Özcan*, Mustafa Erdem Özler, İz Öztat, Ewald Palmetshofer*, Judith Nika Pfeifer*, Shu Qiao, Nuno Ramos, Milo Rau, Navin Rawanchaikul, Ad Reinhardt*, David Riff*, Kathrin Röggla*, Pedro Romero, Ferdinand Schmatz*, Franz Schuh*, Tino Sehgal*, Akira Takayama, Vladimir Tatlin*, Miguel Ventura, Tris Vonna-Michell*, Jeronimo Voss*, Wu Wenguang, Tanja Widmann*, Dilek Winchester, Li Xinmin, Zou Xueping…
Press conference: Friday, May 10, 10am, starting at Secession
Opening: Friday, May 10, 7pm
Wiener Secession
Friedrichstrasse 12, Wien
Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10–6pm
Admission
Adults € 5,00
Groups (minimum 8 persons) per person € 4,00
Reduced rate (students, seniors) € 4,00
Groups reduced (minimum 8 persons) per person € 2,50
Permanent Presentation: Gustav Klimt Beethoven Frieze