Tania Bruguera
dal 3/4/2006 al 27/5/2006
Segnalato da
3/4/2006
Tania Bruguera
Kunsthalle Wien Project Space, Wien
The Cuban artist shows portraits of political figures through the effect they have on people. Transforming speeches by politicians into a sound installation, Bruguera assigns notes to the original texts, creating scores to be performed by a choir - in this way, transforming political monologues directly into an emotional response from their audience.
Curators: Silvia Holler, Gerald Matt
Discourse is not only that which conflict or Systems of domination translate into language: it is that by means of which one struggles; it is the power with which one seeks to take possession of the self.
Michel Foucault, The Order of Discourse, 1977
Bruguera's artistic works are sustained by the major theme of the masses and power as seen from the perspectives
of political communication and its effects on thought and perception. As already intimated by the above citation from
Michel Foucault, political discourse cannot simply be reduced to the components that define its content. It mobilises
emotions from which source it takes its mass psychological energy. It is these emotional responses which Tania
Bruguera traces in her sound installation "Portraits", which she produced for the exhibition at the Kunsthalle Wien's
project space in Chicago and which will be shown afterwards at Kunsthalle zu Kiel.
The Cuban artist portrays great figures in the political arena purely by the receptive effects which these release
among their respective publics. By way of an elaborate procedure, a selection of speeches by various politicians is
translated into musical notes. Thus produced, the scores are then made audible by a choir that claps the notes and
consequently transformed into audience response. The second part of her work is an out of doors publicintervention, which will take place only at the openings in Vienna and in Kiel.
Latin America Project in the Kunsthalle Wien
Part of the Festival Onda Latina FOL (April 20 - June 4, 2006)
on the occasion of the EU and Latin American Summit Meeting in Vienna, 2006;
info at http://www.ondalatina.at
ursula blickle videolounge: a cooperation of the URSULA BLICKLE FOUNDATION and the University of the Applied Arts, Vienna
Buenos Aires Loop
May 5 - June 6, 2006
photo wall
Bernadette Felber "Wunschobjekte"
May 5 - September 10, 2006
Opening: May 4, 7 pm
Information and photographic material are available from Claudia Bauer, KUNSTHALLE wien, Museumsplatz 1, A 1070 Vienna phone: +43 1 521891222, fax: +43 1 521891217, e mail: presse@kunsthallewien.at
Opening: Tuesday, April 4, 2006, 7 pm
Public intervention / performance: Tania Bruguera
Kunsthalle Wien
Treitlstrasse 2/Karlsplatz, 1040 Wien
Daily 4 pm - 12 pm, Sunday/Monday 1 pm - 7 pm
free admission