EXHIBITION

Reality Manifestos, or Can Dialectics Break Bricks?

A study of "détournement" as Art Forms

EventTeaser:Reality Manifestos, or Can Dialectics Break Bricks?

Rebecca Ann Tess, A crime must be committed, 2009

Exhibition: January 19 - March 3, 2012
Opening: January 18, 2012, 7 pm
Symposium: January 19-20, 2012
Finissage. March 3, 2012, 7 pm

Participants in the Exhibition:
Marc Bauer, Sabina Baumann, Mareike Bernien & Kerstin Schroedinger, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Bogna Burska, Brice Dellsperger, Konstantinos Manolakis, Michele O’Marah, Cora Piantoni, Elodie Pong, “Schmale, Scheirl, Knebl Werke” (Toni Schmale, Hans Scheirl & Jakob Lena Knebl), Rebecca Ann Tess

With a performance at the opening by The Centre of Attention.
At the finissage on 3 March, Hans Scheirl will give a public interview, at 7pm.

The exhibition and the symposium are curated by Dimitrina Sevova.

Project website: www.realitymanifestos.info

Ideology can only shatter to pieces on contact with radical subjectivity.
From: René Viénet, Can Dialectics Break Bricks?

The project takes as its point of departure the “first entirely detourned film in the history of cinema”: Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973) by René Viénet, which adapts a spectacular film to a radical critique of cultural hegemony. The French word détournement is employed here for stealing, derailing, appropriating, misusing, re-enacting, rather than the specific term of appropriation that has acquired a special aura in an art-historical context, following John Stezaker’s recognition that “appropriation is actually a misleading term, because it suggests mastery.”
 

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