11 Apr 2012

FORUM STADTPARK: An Exhibition of a Study on Knowledge

Artists: Rossella Biscotti (IT) . Marjolijn Dijkman (NL) . Nikolaus Gansterer (AT) . Toril Johannessen (NO) . Pilvi Takala (FI) . Haegue Yang (KR) . Gernot Wieland (AT)

Curated by: Margit Neuhold (AT) und Fatoş Üstek (TR)

In the midst of current changes of the production and position of knowledge, the exhibition brings together a variety of artistic practices while expanding on other domains of critical, immaculate positions, bringing out scientific, statistical, discursive, empirical, playful and artistic perspectives. Aiming at an encapsulation of ephemerality (knowledge), the exhibition will enhance the position of an investigation at large, than a mere display of conceptual objects.

The knowledge society, designed for livelong learning serves as foundation of the present capitalist order, the cognitive capitalism, which foregrounds related multiplicity evoked through cognitive work in knowledge economies. Here knowledge is not longer a tool but becomes the product. Functioning strongly interdisciplinary, such economies involve a broad range of specialists: economists, computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, geographers, chemists and physicists, as well as cognitivists, psychologists or sociologists. For the generated knowledge flows livelong learning, prescient education and communication are increasingly fundamental. Currently we witness, that education stratifies society and plays in important role in the class struggles for which schools and universities currently provide the arena. Methods of self-learning are increasingly significant since precarious conditions for public institutions lead to privatization of knowledge and restricted access to education.

As a study the exhibition questions the intellectual processing of reality, on which then technologies depart from and which in turn create both: knowledge and lived-in worlds. Michel Foucault only fragmentarily coined the concept governmentality which semantically combines the terms governing ('gouverner') with mentality ('mentalité') to analyze power-knowledge-structures. It encompasses on one hand the representation und rationalisation of power as an external and societal form in discourses and dispositifs and on the other the techniques in the inner side of the individual, its guidance, the subject's constitution and the ethic of its existence. Such a perspective opens a different view to neoliberal self-technologies, which provides a tool to reveal current upheavals along with social and political transformations.

Further information: forumstadtpark.at

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Following:
Lecture Performance 'Drawing on Drawing a Hypothesis' with Emma Cocker and Nikolaus Gansterer.

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Saturday, April 14, 2012, 4 pm
LUNÄ Meeting: Current topics in Quantum physics.
In conversation: Univ.-Prof Dr. Erwin Fiala, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hohenester, Marjolijn Dijkman und Fatoş Üstek (in English).

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Part of the festival aktuelle kunst in graz: 4. 5. – 6. 5. 2012.
Extended opening hours: Fr. 6 - 11 pm; Sa. 11 am - 7 pm; and So. 11 am - 5 pm.

Friday, May 4, 2012, 6.30 pm

Lecture Performance 'On Thievery and Walls' by Gernot Wieland and artist talk with Manuela Ammer.

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Sunday, May 6, 2012, 11 am
Tour and Conversation with Manuela Ammer

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This project is supported by: Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur, Vienna, Kultur Steiermark, Mondriaan Fund, Graz Kultur, HS Art Service Austria GmbH, Vienna.