Offers for re-enacting
dal 18/9/2007 al 26/10/2007
Segnalato da
Ursula Biemann
Tue Greenfort
Anne Konig
Jan Wenzel
Kristina Leko
René Luck
Nils Norman
Dan Peterman
Asa Sonjasdotter
Simon Starling
Ingo Vetter
Sophie Goltz
Vera Tollmann
18/9/2007
Offers for re-enacting
Kunsthalle Exnergasse Wuk, Wien
Group show. Following political scientist Alain Lipietz, the exhibition poses the question of cultural revolution, the blindspot in the sustainability discussion which addresses perception and evaluation schemes as well as dispositions of action (lifestyles). Curated by Sophie Goltz and Vera Tollmann.
Group show
Curated by Sophie Goltz and Vera Tollmann
Artists: Ursula Biemann (tbc), Tue Greenfort, Anne König/Jan Wenzel, Kristina Leko, René Lück, Nils Norman, Dan Peterman, Åsa Sonjasdotter, Simon Starling, Ingo Vetter
Since the ozone hole, global warming, the tsunami catastrophy and the New Orleans flood, the themes of sustainability and sustainable development are again on the political agenda and in the media. A whole industry of fear lives off of it as a film like ‘The Day after Tomorrow’ shows.
The contemporary art discourse addresses the dominance of the technocentric and economistic nature of the sustainability discussion in a critical, destructive or ironic manner thereby distinguishing itself from an all too moralistic impetus. What remains from the western metanarrative (Ulf Wuggenig) ‘sustainable development’ which promises salvation through technological innovation and instrumental reason?
Following political scientist Alain Lipietz, the exhibition poses the question of cultural revolution, the blindspot in the sustainability discussion which addresses perception and evaluation schemes as well as dispositions of action (lifestyles). At the same time it is also questioning if such an ambivalent thought like sustainable development can be a subject matter of art?
Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Wahringer Strasse 59 - Wien