UBERMORGEN Schuldvermutung

UBERMORGEN
Domneva krivde

Opening
April 27, 2023, 7 pm

Exhibition
April 28 – June 2, 2023

Focus Group:
Democratic Circle
Performance on the opening evening
7:30 pm

With Luzius Bernhard, Julian Hessenthaler,
lizvlx (Elisabeth Haas), and Klaus Schönberger

With Domneva krivde [Presumption of Guilt], UBERMORGEN present a new series of works at Kunstraum Lakeside. Based on actual political events in Austria, they unfold a real dystopia of post-democratic tendencies that goes far beyond Austria’s local milieu. It is a piece about a democracy that is merely flaunted by the people involved and has degenerated into phrasemongering; it is about the fire of corruption that is downright stoked up by neoliberalism; about the cunning circumvention of the law and the corrosion of public information by media companies willingly instrumentalized by special interests.

“Does the best of subversions not consist in disfiguring codes, not in destroying them?”

With his question, Roland Barthes pointed to a loophole for undermining existing ordering systems at the beginning of the 1970s, which has lost none of its relevance today. As individuals, we cannot help but become active in the midst of a system, a network, in order to remain capable of action and resist if necessary. That there has never been an outside, something like a neutral ground, becomes all the more clear in times of global entanglements of politics, economy, and media. Appearances are deceptive—always. The artistic oeuvre of UBERMORGEN demonstrates this contradiction at the intersection of art, performance, media activism, exhibition space, and digital environments.

UBERMORGEN
lizvlx (b. 1973 in Austria) lives and works in Vienna and St. Moritz.
Luzius Bernhard (b. 1973 in Switzerland) lives and works in Vienna and St. Moritz.
www.ubermorgen.com