It’s not a dream!
(from The Magic Flute, Act 1, Scene 19, Tamino)
brick-5, Fünfhausgasse 5, 1150 Vienna
Opening September 6, 2006, 7 pm
Duration September 7 – October 15, 2006
Curators Ljubomir Bratić and Luisa Ziaja, Co-curator for educational aspects Nora Sternfeld
It
is not a dream!…challenging and changing what is accepted and
acceptable. As finale of the project Hidden Hi/stories– remapping
Mozart, an undertaking with the goal of writing and demanding a
counter-history, the fourth Configuration is concerned with historical
and contemporary approaches to political changes at the interface
between art and society.
In the late 18th century the relationship of art to society was
discussed intensively and redefined: thus the process of art becoming
autonomous simultaneously also raised the question as to its social
relevance and educational function. Within this context It is not a
dream! is dedicated to the relationship of art to its spectators. How
is the relationship between art and action to be regarded today? Are
they necessarily two separate ways of behaving or can we also think of
them as being linked? What forms the participative aspect of art but
also that of individuals and groups in contemporary society? And how
does one achieve the position of an emancipated spectator?
In the space of brick-5 – both a former gymn of a Jewish
school and a former factory building – the exhibition develops a
narrative of “viewing and acting”: points of departure are questions as
to the educational function of art and the function of education in
society. In the process, the institutions school and museum as well as
the non-institutional counter-proposals for the production and transfer
of knowledge are scrutinised for their normative (but also
emancipatory) potential. Within the term “militant research”, which
reinforces alternative social models in both theoretical and practical
work, the sphere of knowledge – and equally that of looking – is
conjoined with socio-political struggle i.e. action.
At the
same time the exhibition once again picks up the previous
Configurations with regard to the central aspect of “historicising as a
strategy” and places them in the context of a common action.
(c) 2006 by Verborgene Geschichte/n - remapping Mozart.
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It
is not a dream!…challenging and changing what is accepted and
acceptable. As finale of the project Hidden Hi/stories– remapping
Mozart, an undertaking with the goal of writing and demanding a
counter-history, the fourth Configuration is concerned with historical
and contemporary approaches to political changes at the interface
between art and society.
In the space of brick-5 – both a former gymn of a Jewish
school and a former factory building – the exhibition develops a
narrative of “viewing and acting”: points of departure are questions as
to the educational function of art and the function of education in
society. In the process, the institutions school and museum as well as
the non-institutional counter-proposals for the production and transfer
of knowledge are scrutinised for their normative (but also
emancipatory) potential. Within the term “militant research”, which
reinforces alternative social models in both theoretical and practical
work, the sphere of knowledge – and equally that of looking – is
conjoined with socio-political struggle i.e. action.