5/12/2013
Measures of Saving the World _ Part 4
Rotor, Graz
Group show. If Alan Weisman's ideas from The World Without Us proved to be true, then hardly anything would be left to remind of our presence 500 years after humans have disappeared. The pressure-from the bottom up-must grow.
Participating artists: Dusiča Dražić, HeHe, Marjetica Potrč, Klaus Schafler, Anna Witt, zweintopf
Curated by Margarethe Makovec & Anton Lederer
Actually, the title of our exhibition is not a hundred percent accurate as it rather deals with saving mankind than saving the world. If Alan Weisman's ideas of "The World Without Us" prove to be true, hardly anything will remind of us 500 years after humans have disappeared. Perhaps, there is still a little bit of time until then. However, who can stop this development and help save us is yet not completely clarified. The global multinationals? Politics, which is closely interrelated with them? How they act is largely only profit-oriented, interested in growth in consumption, quintessentially exploitative, opposed to humankind and to nature even more, short-term and random. Nonetheless, both of them must not be relieved of any responsibility in this respect; on the contrary: the pressure-from the bottom up-must grow. We are all called upon to help build a new system of values.
Image: Marjetica Potrč, aus der Serie "The Rural Connection", 2012. Courtesy: Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin/Stockholm
Press contact:
Eva Meran eva.meran@mur.at
Opening of the exhibition on Friday, December 6, 2013, 9 pm
Opening speech by Brigitte Kratzwald
The exhibition is open on that day from 6 pm to until at least 1 am in the night.
In the scope of CMRK GRAZ: Starting from 6 pm., openings take place on this day at Camera Austria, Künstlerhaus. Halle für Kunst & Medien, < rotor > and Grazer Kunstverein; referred to in short as CMRK.
< rotor > center for contemporary art
Volksgartenstrasse 6a, 8020 Graz, Austria
Opening Hours7.12. - 21.12.2013 + 7.1. - 28.2.2014:
MO – FR 10 am - 6 pm, SA 12 am - 4 pm
Closed on Sundays and bank holidays
One Thursday each month all CMRK exhibtions are open until 9 pm: 12.12.2013, 16.1.2014, 13.2.2013
Admission free!