Rehearsals of Metabolising

Basics

Description

The event series Rehearsals of (...), taking place in four iterations, explores the potential of embodied and situated artistic critique. Kevin Space invites artists, writers, and performers to site-specifically think and work through ways of shaping the frameworks within which they operate – including the respective relationships to bodies, places, knowledges, and histories that these infrastructures allow for—and to push their material and ideological boundaries. After nine years of exhibition making, Kevin Space furthermore aims to critically reflect on our own involvements, desires, and motivations.

The final iteration of the series, Rehearsals of Metabolising, delves into archival configurations of the art space, encompassing material, social, and symbolic assemblages of knowledge production that enable both the reinforcement and the challenge of its fundamental values, asking: how does an art space constitute and reconstitute its significance and how is artistic knowledge produced and archived within this context? Together with invited artists and scholars, we reflect on the non/material, ephemeral and historical conditions of exhibition making while focalizing on the emergence of sites for relational interactions, dialogue, cultural critique, discourse, and the ‘archiving’ and ‘metabolising’ of these shared experiences.

Noit Banai is a Professor of Diaspora Aesthetics in the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

Steph Holl-Trieu is an artist and writer based in Berlin and Vienna. Her practice pursues questions of materialist aesthetics—engaging with the material conditions of our modes of perception and the production of meaning. Emerging through writing, installation, sound, performative readings, and (role-playing) games, her work is often process-driven and situated within collaborative or collective settings.

Johannes Porsch works as an artist, curator, and author. In so-called project proposals / (pp), the postmedial intersection of exhibition, publication, and materials of publicity, the serial linking of space, surface, object, image, and text he works regarding infrastructure and performativity, politics of representation and corresponding processes of subjectivation.

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Participants

Noit Banai, Steph Holl-Trieu, Johannes Porsch