A work that can't shake off what it reflects

Departing from Austria’s involvement in colonial practices, in both the present and the past, as well as its crossovers to imperial and fascist policies of expansion , the exhibition collects artistic positions that examine these practices and oppose them through resistant strategies. Multi-dimensional perspectives on interwoven pasts should thereby challenge existing competitions of memory and open up spaces of action for contemporary processes of political and anti- racist self-empowerment.

artistsHistory-Politics Platform, maiz – Autonomous Center by and for Migrant Women, Christian Gangl, Research Group on Black Austrian History and Present/Pamoja, Ivana Marjanović, Ljubomir Bratic, Marcel Mališ, kegnschtelik – Yiddish Resistance 3.0, Nina Höchtl, Marika Schmiedt, Katharina Morawek, Richard Ferkl, MigrafonA
curatorsLina Dokuzović, Eduard Freudmann, Petja Dimitrova, Can Gülcü, Ivan Jurica
placeKunsthalle Exnergasse
tags
castIvan Jurica
cameraIvan Svoboda
soundIvan Svoboda
editingIvan Svoboda
interviewIvan Svoboda
published15. 9. 2011
languageČesky / English
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A work that can't shake off what it reflects
The concept of the exhibition is based on the ideological convergence of the work of Catherine Radosa and Jaroslav Varga, which consists in revealing the physical and symbolic traces of the past. Both artists examine these relics of bygone times and eras from the perspective of collective memory and the mechanisms of its storage. A vacant lot is an empty space, a gap left by a past situation that can be filled again. The installation Colonne / Révolution captures the constant cycle of the monument in a triple projection. The period of the revolutionary Paris Commune is still a problematic period in France, similar to the period of socialism in our country: it has been and continues to be reinterpreted, tabooed, or marginalized.