and|or—but, yeah*

Exhibiton location:
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Flux 2 / 2nd floor
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
1030 Vienna

and|or—but, yeah*
Nicoleta Auersperg, Oscar Cueto, Kyungrim Jang, Jakob Kirchweger, Mara Novak, Asher O'Gorman / Anne-Clara Stahl, Lola Pfeifer, David Reiner, Huda Takriti, Ayşe-Gül Yüceil

Opening
October 19, 2018, 6 pm

Exhibition duration
October 22–24, 2018, 10 am–6pm

The exhibition and|or—but, yeah explores aesthetic fields of endeavor that not only constantly reflect on and revise their own materials, forms, and media, but whose speculative approach itself becomes an object of investigation and representation. “The aim of the research is neither to capture reality graphically nor to describe it linguistically, neither to check previous hypotheses nor to follow up on preliminary questions or document processes. Instead, it seeks to be identical with practice and by revising, circumventing, and treating that practice to activate implicit knowledge and generate new findings [...] – research conducted on one’s own behalf that provides information through its execution.” (Hanne Seitz) In the exhibition and|or—but, yeah, aesthetic practice is thus understood as a form of knowledge that not only describes and/or visualizes reality but also shapes it.

The exhibition title and|or—but, yeah* reflects the described processes of artistic research. “And,” “or,” and “but” are to be understood as verbal decision-making expressions that are inseparably linked: it’s about constantly weighing questions and problems of content; about considering the one side and the other side; about connecting and mixing stories, narratives, and forms with the aim of achieving integrative solutions; about separating and juxtaposing the natures and characteristics of things; about contradictions and the contrast between phenomena and systems that condition and exclude one another; about a productive interruption – “yeah.”

Kunstraum Lakeside in cooperation with TransArts – Transdisciplinary Art, University of Applied Arts Vienna
www.transarts.at