Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module
Group exhibition
24.01.2014 - 13.04.2014
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York / United States
The vessel is inspired by the spacecraft in the iconic Czech science-fiction film Ikarie XB-1 (1963), which melded postwar utopianism with Soviet utilitarianism. In its structure and design, it recalls future fantasies from the socialist Eastern European side of the Iron Curtain and explores the ideological role that outer space played during this time. On view in and around the spacecraft will be 117 artworks, including video, sculpture, print, and installation, by artists hailing primarily from cities around Eastern Europe, notably Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Bucharest, and Bratislava, all of whom tranzit has worked with previously....
“Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module” offers an allegory of “anthropological science fiction,” where the exhibition space becomes an estranged and exciting universe that dramatizes the cross-cultural translation involved in the presentation of art. The unique model evokes the challenges that contemporary artists experience in exhibiting works, or that curators come across in organizing exhibitions that stitch together diverse artworks, selected across generation, cultural context, personal narratives, and time.
This ambitious exhibition is guest curated for the New Museum by tranzit, a network of autonomous but interconnected organizations based in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia. Much like the Museum as Hub program (the New Museum’s international partnership through which the exhibition is produced), tranzit organizations actively collaborate with each other, but also work independently to produce art historical research, exhibitions, and new commissions. The work included in this exhibition—all made by artists that tranzit has worked with in some capacity or, alternately, documentation of events or exhibitions that tranzit has staged—constitutes an experimental archive of the organization’s work.
[Quelle: www.newmuseum.org]
- Anna Artaker
- Babi Badalov
- Zbynek Baladrán
- László Beke
- Erick Beltrán
- Derya Bengi
- Walter Benjamin
- Vladimír Boudník
- Ondrej Buddeus
- Luis Camnitzer
- Curatorial Dictionary
- Josef Dabernig
- Orshi Drozdik
- Miklós Erdély
- Stano Filko
- Zsuzsi Flohr
- János Fodor
- Andreas Fogarasi
- Heinz Frank
- Pawel Freisler
- Tomislav Gotovac
- Reesa Greenberg
- Ion Grigorescu
- Igor & Ivan Buharov
- Jasanský & Polák
- Mihut Boscu Kafchin
- David Karas
- Sung Hwan Kim
- Tamas Király
- Barbora Kleinhamplová
- Július Koller
- Igor Korpaczewski
- Eva Kotatkova
- Jirí Kovanda
- KwieKulik
- Denisa Lehocká
- Václav Magid
- Elin Magnusson
- János Major
- Ján Mancuška
- Piet Mondrian
- Deimantes Narkevicius
- Paul Neagu
- Ioana Nemes
- Boris Ondreicka
- Parallel Chronologies – An Archive of East European Exhibitions
- Dan Perjovschi
- Lia Perjovschi
- Walter Pichler
- François Piron
- Lukasz Ronduda
- Gábor Roskó
- Hedwig Saxenhuber
- Ernst Schmidt jr.
- Ruti Sela
- Katarina Sevic
- Catarina Simão
- Société Réaliste
- Tereza Stejskalová
- János Sugár
- Eszter Szakács
- Tamás St.Turba
- Avdey Ter-Oganyan
- Tranzit platform - Curator
- Goran Trbuljak
- Florin Tudor
- Zsuzsi UJJ
- Mona Vatamanu
- Jan Verwoert
- Krysztof Zarebski
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