The Temporary Zones
dal 8/1/2008 al 8/2/2008
Segnalato da
8/1/2008
The Temporary Zones
Open Space - Zentrum fur Kunstprojekte, Wien
The exhibition offers a space for exploration of current relations of and in predicated conflict as well as negotiation within cultural specific conditions. In pointing out the space of current relations, the scope of the exhibition allows an engagement of a space that identifies the transitional conditions and the flows where the temporal construct seemingly obliterates all its secrets and ambiguities.
Project curator: Gulsen Bal
Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte opens its door to the public with The
Temporary Zones a stimulating first project developed by the founder and director of
Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Gulsen Bal. The exhibition offers a space
for exploration of current relations of and in predicated conflict as well as
negotiation within cultural specific conditions. In pointing out the space of
current relations, the scope of the exhibition allows an engagement of a space that
identifies the transitional conditions and the flows where the temporal construct
seemingly obliterates all its secrets and ambiguities. In a journey of a volatile
world, this gives a moment of magnitude by tracing the cross-border dialogues.
Each participating artist creates works that respond in particular ways, to take a
deeper look at complex relational powers with a new conjunction of transitions in a
designated quasi-accessible space that resides within creative practice.
Ergin Çavusoglu is known for his lyrical and unsettling video installations that
reconstitute our sense of space and pose questions about our understanding of place
and identity in a globalised society marked by mobility.
His recent single channel video Empire (after Andy Warhol) reframes an ordinary
building in reference to the representation of an iconicized structure, while
shifting from the global to the local. Borrowing his title from Andy Warhol's film
'Empire', which consists of a single shot of the Empire State Building and runs 8
hours and 6 minutes and keeps the tracks of day to night, Çavusoglu’s video is both
poetically engendering a visual anchor against taking deep breath to counter the
effects of a metronomic flow that operates unsettling the concepts of domestic
comfort through unrelenting gaze.
The Rights by Nada Prlja is a series of video recordings of children who are reading
‘European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom’ in
the manner it presents that there is no protection of human rights and freedom. This
exposes the complexity of the issues of immigration and the EU politics around the
boundaries of “New Europe”.
Prlja creates a space that identifies the transitional conditions in between new
topological zones of inclusion and exclusion through focusing on culturally specific
conditions. The Rights provokes the potentiality of “who speaks” outside
representational boundaries that define the conjuncture of social forces beyond its
discursive construction.
In their work, Visiting Stalin, Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer reflect upon
cultural transformations of our contemporary world through exploring the potentials
and effects of new social orders. Departing from sites of geopolitical conflicts and
social confrontations they seek to extract the knowledge embodied by these new forms
of socio-spatial organisation and group action. In doing so, they raise questions
about how the emergence of networked cultures has changed our cultural forms of
cohabitation and communication, and how we produce and experience the spaces we live
in vis-à-vis a globalised world of flows.
In conjunction with the exhibition, a panel discussion is planned to address these
issues with the participating artist.
Sponsored and kind support provided by
Interkulturelle und internationale Aktivitäten
LABfactory
IB-Office Consulting
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Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte aims to create the most vital facilities on
non-profit base for contemporary art concerned with contributing a model strategy
for cross-border and interregional projects on the basis of improving new approach.
Opening 09.01.08, between 18.00 - 20.30
Open Space - Zentrum fur Kunstprojekte
Lassingleithnerplatz 2 - Wien
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