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17/6/2015

Re-

Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Wien

Curated by: Franz Thalmair

From the appropriation, through the loop, to the quotation – the topic of reiteration is indispensable in current art production. The artists’ book and the eponymous exhibition “Re-” in the Kunstraum Niederoesterreich go to the root of this transdisciplinary phenomenon. The principle of repetition in its various forms here not only serves as the basis of the content, but is also investigated as an artistic process and a method.

The starting point for “Re-” is the medium of the exhibition catalogue. The participating artists produce a book together, but without an exhibition having taken place beforehand. With the artists’ book “Re-” the reference to an artistic act, its documentation in the form of a publication, takes place before the artistic act itself. The effect comes before the cause, the copy before the original, the reaction before the action. With the book, the usual causalities are reversed in order to focus on reiteration as the motor of cultural production.

The eponymous exhibition in the Kunstraum Niederoesterreich follows the publication of the artists’ book “Re-”. Because this show only takes place after the publication, it is not conceived as a usual group exhibition, in which the works documented in the book can be seen, but presents the participating artists’ contributions to the book in spatial form. Here the principle of reiteration is transferred from the book format to the exhibition format, with “Re-” being conceived of as a book presentation with installations, photographs, videos, objects and performative and linguistic methods. With the exhibition the effect no longer comes before the cause as with the printed work, but takes its place – the copy comes instead of the original and the reaction before the action.

“Re-” has been developed by students of the University of Applied Art Vienna as part of the seminar “Same Same But Different – Wiederholung I/II” (Department of TransArts – Transdisziplinäre Kunst) headed by Franz Thalmair. Alongside participants from the TransArts department, “Re-” includes students from the fields of language art, transmedia art and photography.

Image: © Maria Grün and Max Berner, Anagramm_I, 2015

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Opening and book presentation: 18 06 2015, 7pm

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