Sa 3.10.2026
5.30 pm
kex—kunsthalle exnergasse
B
Bored A F: a performance of painfully fidgety feelings
☆☆ Curator's Tour
The curators of the exhibtion On Chewing Shoelaces give a guided tour in German and English.
☆ Performance: Bored A F
Boredom is one of the most understudied, ‘so called’ negative emotions in psychology. Think back for a second to when you were young and bored as fuck... what kind of creative or deviant shit did you get up to?
Two performers move among the audience and interact with their surroundings, inhabiting the metaphysical states one experienced when navigating the circumference of boredom. The performance captures both sides of the experience: the adult sinking into the slow torment of the boredom of parenthood, and the child suffocating in the endless wait while their artist parent works from home.
Team
Choreographie: Asher Ó Gormáin | Performance: Mani Obeya, Imani Rameses
This exhibition is created with parents, caregivers, children, and their wider communities in mind. No childcare is provided at our events, albeit plenty of understanding, paper, and crayons. Our symbols below indicate who each event is designed for.
☆ Bring the crew
This event is intended for all generations.
☆☆ Steal a moment
If you can come on your own, enjoy some uninterrupted time at this event.
If not, bring your little ones. We’re happy to have them too.
On Chewing Shoelaces: Art, Mess and Radical Kinship
Exhibiting Artists: Liesel Burisch, Club Fortuna, Nana Mandl, Jesseline Preach, Rychèl Thérin Scott, Sarah Sternat, HOOD dreamers and Im_flieger
Participating artists & facilitators: Alex Bailey, Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir, Sophia Hörmann, Krõõt Jurak, Mani Obeya, Asher Ó Gormáin, Imani Rameses, Miriam Wistreich
Curated by HOOD for Artist Parents Vienna
Here, art is made in the margins – between night feeds and school runs, between loss and life. It is made amidst leaking bodies and small sticky hands, in stolen minutes, in the gendered debris of daily life.
In a world that calls parents monstrous for wanting both autonomy and kin, On Chewing Shoelaces is a space – a rupture – where the patriarchal and ableist demands of “professionalism” and “productivity” are side-eyed.
It holds the gap between creation and care, refusing the tidy myth of the solitary artist. The exhibition brings together painting, sculpture, film, performance, collective experimentation, HOOD dreaming, a Queer Nursing book reading, and a FLINTA* play-fight night.
A co-working area is integrated into the exhibition setting, inviting all visitors to: sit, read, work, cry, fight, collaborate, care, radicalise kinship, chew on shoelaces – and perhaps, together, make this mess matter.
Supported by Bezirk Alsergrund, Bildrecht.
All the events as part of the exhibtion are in collaboration with Im_flieger, Backpulver and UKS Oslo
