Opening: Leakage, Breaching, Motley Tongues
Opening of the group exhibition Leakage, Breaching, Motley Tongues, a cooperation between Kunstraum Niederoesterreich and the PhD-in-Practice program of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. After the opening there will be a performance at 20 h.
Artists: andrea ancira, Tekla Aslanishvili, Caitlin Berrigan, Mustafa Emin Büyükcoşkun, Gris García, Pille-Riin Jaik, Izidora I LETHE, Yen Noh, Vrishali Purandare, Emily Sarsam, Olia Sosnovskaya, Olga Zovskaya
Curators: andrea ancira, Gris García, Yen Noh, Vrishali Purandare and Olga Zovskaya, with support by Laura Birschitzky
What is the basis of solidarity? The answer is usually: empathy – our ability to put ourselves in the shoes of others. But what if this answer falls short? What if empathy not only fails to enable solidarity, but actually undermines its potential?
The group exhibition Leakage, Breaching, Motley Tongues challenges the liberal model of solidarity based on empathy and identification. Building on the concept of “imperfect solidarities” by theorist and art critic Aruna D'Souza, it focuses on what supposedly stands in the way of the realization of solidarity: Difference, dissent, incomprehension. The thesis: solidarity begins where mutual understanding ends – and yet one is willing to care for and with each other.
How can divergence be made politically productive? How does one rethink and practice solidarity beyond unity? Leakage, Breaching, Motley Tongues engages with these questions through various formal and conceptual artistic strategies.