Exhibition

Touch the Reality. Rethinking Keywords of Political Performance

Kunstraum Niederoesterreich

Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo, Puesto de mando, Performance, 2014. Photo: Sergio Valdés.

Oct 21 2016 to Dec 3 2016
Herrengasse 13
Vienna 1010
Phone: Tel +43 1 90 42 111
Tuesday - Friday:
11:00-19:00
Saturday:
11:00-15:00
free
Friday, October 21, 2016 to Saturday, December 3, 2016
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“We have to put Duchamp’s urinal back in the restroom.” — Tania Bruguera

Pussy Riot! Theaster Gates! Ai Weiwei! The Kunstraum Niederoesterreich is devoted to art that intervenes in politics and society. What effect can art have today and what means of articulation and scopes of action does it possess to face political and socio-economic conflicts? With “Touch the Reality. Rethinking Keywords of Political Performance” the Kunstraum takes a special look at art that strives for social and political change.

“Touch the Reality” is an exhibition and work in progress.
It showcases concepts and practices that transfer artistic work into a socio-political domain and how they employ an aesthetic of the performative, artivism, and the public space in the process. To what extent do contemporary performance practices affect a repoliticization of art and society? How can a discussion of these issues access new territories? How can new forms of articulation evolve in a direct exchange with artistic practices? A cause of present day conflicts, according to philosopher Jacques Rancière, can be found in an ambivalent understanding of democracy, which possesses a growing potential for conflict, as current political developments illustrate.

Artists:
Akram Al Halabi, Catrin Bolt, Tania Bruguera, Lana Čmajčanin, Miss G (a.k.a. Giorgia Conceição), Pêdra Costa, Masha Dabelka, EsRAP , Kadir Fadhel, Fidel García, Markus Hiesleitner, Elvedin Klačar, Sylvi Kretzschmar, Camila Lobos, Sandra Monterroso, Naïma Mazic & William Ruiz Morales, Leandro Nerefuh, Female Obsession, Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo, Jianan Qu, Dudu Quintanilha, Grethell Rasúa, Dania González Sanabria, Ela Spalding, Sofia Cruz, Anna Witt

Curator: Ursula Maria Probst

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Program:
FR 21 10 2016
7pm:

Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo: „Puesto De Mando III“ (72-hours-Live-Performance, meeting point: Kulturdrogerie Wien)

THUR 03 11 2016,
7pm:
Performance EsRAP,“rap as resistance”

TUE 15 11 2016,
4pm / 6.30pm:

Performance Naïma Mazic & William Ruiz Morales, “Sharing HOME” (in the course of VIENNA ART WEEK)

7pm:
Performance Jianan Qu, „Screening“

THUR 17 11 2016

7pm:
Masha Dabelka, Lecture/Soundperformance „MusicOn Ribs“, and Pêdra Costa, Performance „de_colon_isationpart 2: The Southern Ass“ (in the course of VIENNA ART WEEK)

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A cooperation of Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Bundeskanzleramt, Artist-in-Residence Q21 and KulturKontakt Austria

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