HAVE THE CAKE AND EAT IT, TOO
Institutional Critique as Instituent Practice (scroll down for german version)
Exhibition: March 13 – April 19, 2008
Opening: March 12, 19:00 Place: Kunsthalle Exnergasse | WUK | Währingerstr. 59, 1090 Vienna
Artists: Agentur, Bini Adamczak / Persson Baumgartinger, Zanny Begg / Oliver Ressler, Zanny Begg / Dmitry Vilensky, Chto delat?, Marcelo Expósito / Nuria Vila, Anna Sigmond Gudmundsdottir / Tone Hansen / Marit Paasche, Martin Krenn (http://www.in-between-the-movements.net/), Lia / Dan Perjovschi
Designers: Toledo i Dertschei
Curators: Charlotte Martinz-Turek and Luisa Ziaja
Institutions
like museum, university or clinic have been analysed and criticized
frequently as power-knowledge-complexes because of their disciplining
function. In the meantime, institutional critique itself, for
example in the artistic field, became part of that canon, that one it
was appealed against in the beginning.
Alongside its canonized history, which is often negotiated by means of
spatial metaphors of the stepping out or the bringing into the
institution and for this reason again and again imagines a possible
outside, it should be asked for mechanisms of the powerful defined
determination and its inclusions and exclusions.
How is it possible today, with that knowledge, to articulate protest
and critique, to develop forms of structural (new) organization without
being taken in by the idea of a dichotomy from inside and outside, by
the question of either or?
It attempts to reformulate institutional criticism both as a critical attitude and as an instituent practice. Therefore, the emphasis is on the options of action proposed by diverse
actors in artistic, theoretic and activist fields.
Discursive framework program:
New Feminism. World of Feminism, Queer and Networking Conditions
7 April 2008, 19.00 Book presentation with Eva Egermann, Marina Gržinić, Marty Huber, Katharina Miko, Kati Morawek, Rosa Reitsamer, Lisa Rosenblatt, Rubia Salgado (MAIZ), Karin Sardadvar, Jo Schmeiser (Klub Zwei) http://kunsthalle.wuk.at/2e/frame.htm
Agency, Specimen 0768
(Musée du Cinéma Henri Langlois)
15 April 2008, 18.00
Specimen 0768 will bear witness on April 15th 2008 at 6 pm during a local
assembly with Kobe Matthys (artist), Roland Fischer-Briand (Filmmuseum Vienna), Angelika Fitz (curator) and Alfred Noll (laywer).
In 1997, Cinématheque Française made the attempt at moving the exhibition ‘Musée
du Cinéma Henri Langlois’ from the Palais de Chaillot to Palais de Tokyo Paris.
A conflict arouse wherein Langlois' heirs opposed the alteration of the
exhibition on the basis of copyright. During the court case Henri Langlois
Foundation vs Cinémathèque Française at the Cour d’Appel the judges had to
decide if the exhibition ‘Musée du Cinéma Henri Langlois’ is just a collection of
existing works or a new composed work.
Agency constitutes a list of quasi things: things that witness hesitation in
terms of the bifurcation of nature into 'nature' and 'culture'.
Artistic Interventions as Cultural Politics | First Knowledge Network Convention
17 - 20 April 2008
Workshop with Claudia Berardi, Anna Curcio, Aileen Derieg, Eva Egermann, Marcelo Expósito, Rainer Hackauf, Brigitta Kuster, Katja Reichard, Vassilis Tsianos, Julia Wieger; Moderation: Monika Mokre, Katya Sander, Simon Sheikh. Programm
More information on the workshop
For texts that emerged from this conference see here; the texts were first published in Kulturrisse 02/2008. How to picture protest?
On the Representation of Activism in Artworks and Exhibitions
18 April 2008, 19:00
Screening and panel discussion with Marcelo Expósito, Oliver Ressler and Luisa Ziaja
Moderation: Belinda Kazeem http://kunsthalle.wuk.at/
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HAVE THE CAKE AND EAT IT, TOO
Institutionskritik als instituierende Praxis13.03.2008 bis 19.04.2008
Eröffnung: 12.03.2008, 19:00
Place: Kunsthalle Exnergasse | WUK | Währingerstr. 59, 1090 Vienna
Künstler/innen: Agentur, Bini Adamczak / Persson Baumgartinger, Zanny Begg / Oliver Ressler, Zanny Begg / Dmitry Vilensky, Chto delat?, Marcelo Expósito / Nuria Vila, Anna Sigmond Gudmundsdottir / Tone Hansen / Marit Paasche, Martin Krenn (http://www.in-between-the-movements.net/), Lia / Dan Perjovschi
Gestalter/innen: Toledo i Dertschei
Kuratorinnen: Charlotte Martinz-Turek und Luisa Ziaja
Institutionen
wie Museum, Universität oder Klinik sind aufgrund ihrer
disziplinierenden Funktion vielfach als Macht-Wissens-Komplexe
analysiert und kritisiert worden. Inzwischen ist die
Institutionskritik, beispielsweise im künstlerischen Feld, selbst Teil
jenes Kanons, den anzufechten sie angetreten war. Entlang ihrer
kanonisierten Geschichte, die oftmals über räumliche Metaphern des
Heraustretens aus oder des Hineinholens in die Institution verhandelt
wird und damit immer wieder ein mögliches „Außerhalb“ imaginiert, soll
nach Mechanismen der definitionsmächtigen Festlegung und ihren Ein- und
Ausschlüssen gefragt werden. Wie lassen sich heute mit diesem Wissen
Protest und Kritik artikulieren, wie Formen der strukturellen
(Neu-)Organisation entwickeln, ohne der Idee einer Dichotomie von Innen
und Außen, von Entweder/Oder aufzusitzen?
Institutionskritik soll
hier zugleich als kritische Haltung und als instituierende Praxis
verstanden und reformuliert werden. Im Vordergrund stehen daher
Handlungsoptionen, die von unterschiedlichen Akteur/innen in
künstlerischen, theoretischen wie aktivistischen Zusammenhängen
entworfen werden.
Diskursives Rahmenprogramm:
New Feminism. World of Feminism, Queer and Networking Conditions
7 April 2008, 19.00
Buchpräsentation mit Eva Egermann, Marina
Gržinić, Marty Huber, Katharina Miko, Kati Morawek, Rosa Reitsamer,
Lisa Rosenblatt, Rubia Salgado (MAIZ), Karin Sardadvar, Jo Schmeiser
(Klub Zwei)
Agency, Specimen 0768
(Musée du Cinéma Henri Langlois)
15 April 2008, 18.00
Specimen 0768 will bear witness on April 15th 2008 at 6 pm during a local
assembly with Kobe Matthys (artist), Roland Fischer-Briand (Filmmuseum Vienna), Angelika Fitz (curator) and Alfred Noll (laywer).
In 1997, Cinématheque Française made the attempt at moving the exhibition ‘Musée
du Cinéma Henri Langlois’ from the Palais de Chaillot to Palais de Tokyo Paris.
A conflict arouse wherein Langlois' heirs opposed the alteration of the
exhibition on the basis of copyright. During the court case Henri Langlois
Foundation vs Cinémathèque Française at the Cour d’Appel the judges had to
decide if the exhibition ‘Musée du Cinéma Henri Langlois’ is just a collection of
existing works or a new composed work.
Agency constitutes a list of quasi things: things that witness hesitation in
terms of the bifurcation of nature into 'nature' and 'culture'.
Artistic Interventions as Cultural Politics | First Knowledge Network Convention
17 - 20 April 2008
Workshop
mit Claudia Berardi, Anna Curcio, Aileen Derieg, Eva Egermann, Marcelo
Expósito, Rainer Hackauf, Brigitta Kuster, Katja Reichard, Vassilis Tsianos, Julia Wieger; Moderation: Monika Mokre, Katya Sander, Simon Sheikh
Programm
Mehr Information zu diesem Workshop findet sich hier
Texte, die in diesem Kontext entstanden sind; Erstveröffentlichung in: Kulturrisse 02/2008.
How to picture protest?
On the Representation of Activism in Artworks and Exhibitions
18 April 2008, 19:00
Screening und Podiumsdiskussion mit Marcelo Expósito, Oliver Ressler und Luisa Ziaja
Moderation: Belinda Kazeem
http://kunsthalle.wuk.at/2/frame.htm
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