A Vessel. A Cage. A Machine. A Temple.
A Vessel. A Cage. A Machine. A Temple.
Minuszwei
Domgasse 6, 1010 Vienna
@minusoffspace
Not barrier free (no wheelchair access, stairs, warm environment)
Screening: 17.10.2024 | 18:00 - 21:00
Finissage: 24.10.2024 | 18:00 - 21:00
Duration: 11.10 - 25.10.2024
Hours: Friday - Sunday | 14:00 - 18:00
And by appointment
Artists
Jupiter Rhae Braun, Vinko Nino Jaeger, Zoya Laktionova, Naa Teki Martey Lebar, Frederik Marroquín, Danielle Pamp, Damien Rouxel, Francis Ruyter, Siggi Sekira, Shiraz Soeker, Camila Téllez & Eszter Katalin
Curated by Daniel Hill
The exhibition "A Vessel. A Cage. A Machine. A Temple." questions and interrogates the representation of the body in (post-)heteronormative society and contemporary art from a queer-feminist, decolonialist and antiracist position. What purpose does our (non-)physical embodiment serve in the disruption of the heteropatriarchal matrix as a means to dismantle the systems of oppression? How and for what purpose are gender identity and sex-practice norms created and sustained? How do we move towards other ways of being beyond the logics of the gender binary, capitalism and neoliberalism? How can our strategies of corporeal representation be utilized in our feminist, queer and antiracist vision of utopia?
From the diversity of their strategies and the plurality of their approaches, the participating artists open up new spaces of representation in which they can find and create an alternative voice outside the heteronormative and -patriarchal matrix. At the center is the body, either abstractly or figuratively, conceptually or concretely, visible or invisible, to contradict normative templates, to derail the current tendencies in cultural policy towards neoliberalization of the body and to reaffirm queer personalities and potentialities.
Partial funding by BMKÖS, Kultur Stadt Wien, Bezirk Innere Stadt, Bildrecht, ÖH