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26/1/2011

Songs of The Swamp

Kunsthalle Exnergasse Wuk, Wien

The exhibition presents an array of international artists whose works represent, invent, question, or deploy systems. The context is the failure of multiple systems - national, theatrical, financial, market, web. The project seeks a new aesthetic taxonomy of systems: their actors and their dynamics, their becoming, ascendancy and decay.


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curated by Hilary Koob-Sassen with Rosie Cooper

Anthony Auerbach // Eric Beltran & Jorge Satorre // Leah Carvell // Hannah Collins // Verity Combe // Sophie Cundale // Stephen Danzig // Etcétera... // Doug Fishbone // Christian Graupner // Sharon Green // Alex Hamilton // Claire Hooper // Paula Kane // Lisa Louttit & Adam Blau // Michaela Math // Melissa Moore // John Russell // Dallas Seitz // Tim Spooner // Eva Stenram // Joulia Strauss // Myriam Thyes // Bela Wiener

Songs of the Swamp presents an array of international artists whose works represent, invent, question, or deploy systems. The context is the failure of multiple systems – national, theatrical, financial, market, web.

Songs of the Swamp seeks a new aesthetic taxonomy of systems: their actors and their dynamics, their becoming, ascendancy and decay. Songs of the Swamp asks, in making an exhibition – an experiment in the creation of new meaning – can we capture the interplay between multiple systems as a story?

A swamp is prey to drainage, it stands in narrative limbo. It can become a garden, a desert, a body.
Accepting his Nobel Peace prize for pure potential in 2009, Barack Obama quotes J.F.K.: “Let us focus… on a gradual evolution in human institutions”.

Evolution happens without fluidity: punctuated equilibrium. The steady sputter of genetic and technical errors keeps traction on the ancestral speed of change. But cataclysmic punctuations of the norm create a slickness on which only rare and radical glitches – like mammals with flippers – can grip. Those less lucky in their errors can only hope that War, Hunger and Warming herald a cataclysmic supercession: a new ecology of built systems that is not reliant on extreme catastrophe to create real change.

The progatonist here is a worm-like structure that winds through the Kunsthalle Exnergasse, ‘drawn’ from thin strips of steel. Contained within the gut-strings of the worm are a number of video works in varying stages of dissection.
Outside the ‘worm’, systems find a space within the ‘swamp’: identity and nationhood, myth making, literacy and interpretation, spatial alterity, time / scale, memory and industry; the body.

Worm is the syntactical seeking of a story for itself in the ecology of the exhibition.
HKS & RKC, January 2011

Thanks to pro helvetia Schweizer Kulturstiftung and Volkskundemuseum Vienna.

Image: Flag Metamorphoses, participatory web project

Press contact:
Klaus Schafler T 40 121-42, klaus.schafler@wuk.at

Opening: Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 7pm

Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Währinger Straße 59 - 1090 Wien
Tue-Fri: 1 PM - 6 PM , SAT: 11 AM - 2 PM

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