Songs of The Swamp
dal 26/1/2011 al 4/3/2011
Segnalato da
Anthony Auerbach
Eric Beltran
Jorge Satorre
Leah Carvell
Hannah Collins
Verity Combe
Sophie Cundale
Stephen Danzig
Etcetera
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
Hilary Koob-Sassen
Rosie Cooper
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.
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