Forthcoming – March 2010:
Group exhibition @ Kunstpavillon der Tiroler Künstlerschaft

IN OTHER WORDS…? DISCOURSES WITH POETIC FUNCTION
Kunstpavillon der Tiroler Künstlerschaft, Innsbruck/Austria
25 March 2010, 8 pm (Opening) | 26 March – 08 May 2010

Featuring works by: Anna Artaker, Lisa Rastl, Ruben Aubrecht, Barbara Musil & Karo Szmit, Maria Anwander, Michael Kargl – aka carlos katastrofsky, Ralo Mayer, Arnold Reinthaler, Johanna Tinzl & Stefan Flunger

Variations and versions are central components of a globalized and constantly faster-paced everyday culture. Only a short time after their introduction, products and services – especially in the field of information technology – are quickly expanded, reformulated, refined, and different versions are produced for different markets. The functions and properties of goods are continually adapted to the consumers’ needs, which leads to the worldwide economic network constantly spitting out new remakes, reproductions, and also imitations and unauthorized fakes – Interpretations? Regarding the development of such market tendencies, the exhibition In other words…? Discourses with Poetic Function traces strategies of a kind of “cultural versioning” in the sense of interpretation. The exhibition shows nine contemporary Austrian Conceptual art approaches that resort to already existing ‘cultural texts’ from everyday activities or social-political conventions and/or social relations, and reuse them two, three, or multiple times. At the interface between literature and visual art and within the context of the writing of history, institutional critique, and the (non-)transparency of public structures, the primarily language-based artworks are embedded in a reciprocal system of ‘media cultural self-explanation,’ whose self-reflexive moment, as a formal condition for artistic production, is central.

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UNTITLED (THE AUTHOR ENTITLES TEXTS WITH EXPERIMENTAL ART)
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