steirischer herbst festival: Second World
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Second World
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With
Jumana Emil Abboud (PS), Yael Bartana (IL), Nemanja Cvijanović (HR/I), Marcelo Expósito & Verónica Iglesia (E/ARG), Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency / DAAR (PS), Ruben Grigorian (ARM), Bouchra Khalili (F/MA), Daniel Knorr (D/RO), Tom Nicholson (AUS), Maha Maamoun (EG), Mona Marzouk (EG), Chan-Kyong Park (ROK), Lala Raščić (HR/USA), Marko Tadić (HR)
Curated by
What, How & for Whom / WHW (HR)
23/09 - 16/10/2011
Mon - Fri 12 noon - 8 pm
Sat & Sun 10.30 am - 8 pm
Opening: Fri 23/09/2011, 5 pm
Contact
info@steirischerherbst.at
0043 316 81 60 70
Address
http://www.steirischerherbst.at
c/o Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill
Opernring 7
8010 Graz
Austria
Second World
herbst-exhibition
'Second Worlds' – the theme of this year's steirischer herbst festival in Graz / Austria – sets out in search of cultural, social, political and psychological parallel worlds: as conceptual alternatives, models of thought, levers for a change of paradigm that suddenly allow us to see things differently. This year's herbst exhibition 'Second World' – conceived by the Croatian curator collective WHW – uses the potential of possible and impossible second worlds as a projection surface for an imaginary and political change of perspective – but still firmly rooted in the geopolitical reality of our time.
Second Worlds: in which the past had different consequences and the future does not depend on the present. Parallel worlds, possible worlds, impossible worlds, ideal worlds. Worlds apart, worlds connected. The programme invokes the unrealised possibilities haunting our present day, as well as the realistic dangers that could wipe out any conceivable future. The notion of another world has become largely apocalyptic – a world in the wake of an unimaginable natural disaster, for example, or a human-induced self-destruction with capital as the sole survivor. The geopolitical construction of a second world from the Cold War era, that for decades euphemistically sought to conceal the dark chasm between the First and Third Worlds with the illusion of progress that would, sooner or later, embrace all people, has gone out of fashion. But the inequalities and divisions that it manifested have continued to grow. Only the ideology of economic growth has superseded that of progress.
The other exhibitions showing at the festival, created in co-operation with partner institutions, also revolve around the leitmotif of 'Second Worlds', considering the topic from different angles and perspectives:
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Kunstverein Medienturm: Hauntings – Ghost Box Media
Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten: Irrealigious!
Camera Austria:Communitas. Among Others
Haus der Architektur: Plural realities
Galerie Artelier Contemporary: Life in the 20th century
the smallest gallery: If it is not beside you it is inside you
Mursteg / Akademie Graz: Lullaby of the Earth / Graz
Grazer Kunstverein: Public Folklore
ESC im LABOR: Possibility Grid
More on the festival's exhibition programme here: www.steirischerherbst.at/2011/english/program/bildende_kunst.php
