kathy rae huffman on Tue, 23 Sep 1997 18:08:07 +0100 |
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Syndicate: Steirischer Herbst 1997 |
Steirischer Herbst 97 "Social Bodies" 25 September - 31 October, Graz, Austria An annual international festival of art, literature, theater and music, more than 32 exhibitions, symposia, performances are scheduled throughout Styria, mainly in Graz. The Festival is held every Autumn in Graz, this year's pre-program is online at: http://www.stherbst.at/vor97_2.html ZONEN DER VER-ST�RUNG (Zones of Disturbance) 27 Sept - 31 Oct: Zones of Disturbance, the international exhibition curated by Silvia Eiblmayr will be on view at the Marieninstitut, Graz. Internet and CD ROMS selected by Kathy Rae Huffman, and a Reading Room, created by Thomas Brandstetter, will host Internet terminals, computer workstations with bookmarks of e-zines, artists websites, real books and a good cup of coffee. The pre-program is online at: http://www.stherbst.at/V_zonen.html#english CURATORIAL Statement: The "Zones of Disturbance" address everyday phenomena, the stuff of the media: commodities, advertisement, consumption, career, family, tourism, sexuality, illness, psychosis, accidents, racism, crime, terrorism, war. The artists in this exhibition are working on overlapping socio-cultural "fields of syndromes" in an attempt to study what effects and affects accompany the radical transformations of the geopolitical and economic situation. An increasingly brutal capitalism and new technologies of the ever-faster transfer of goods, information and media has led to a collision of modern and postmodern activities, of real and virtual bodies and thus also to a potential of threatening uncertainty which the "zones" are all about. At issue are two inseparably linked phenomena: "Stšrung" (interference") as a sort of oppositional intervention and "Verstšrung" ("disturbance" or "confusion") as reactive affect, as irritation. Both are equally informed by a media-dictated fusion of reality and fiction, as the presented works clearly show. For the artistic strategies and the means employed this implies that photography, video and film projections, hypertextual forms and multimedia CD-Roms as well as the electronic data networks dominate this exhibition. Dr. Silvia Eiblmayr, Zonen der Ver-Stšrung curator Kathy Rae Huffmam's personal comment: The Zones of Disturbance exhibition is an exciting opportunity to see a strong international selection of installations. These works all use media techniques (42! installations), that reflect upon and analyze the vastness of our 'media-dictated' and influenced IRL reality. A full color catalogue, a series of performance events, readings & lectures and a symposium are designed to follow the themes expressed by Dr. Eiblmayr more deeply, and to provoke a public forum for response to issue-based artwork. We invite you to visit the exhibition, virtually if you are unable to come to Graz. The website will be updated regularly to include documentation of performances, and images from the actual installations. OTHER FESTIVAL HIGHTLIGHTS: 27 September - 12 October Sex & Space II, a workshop on gender, space and representation, will bring women together from around Europe, with activists of the Graz Women«s Project 4 October, in the Marieninstitut, MAMAX will present a KONSUM DJ lecture event, Transform¯ativ ,which connects Internet server communication and live audio production by Internet processes, in a theory performance. 10 & 24 October, at Reininghaus, Granular Synthesis will present Areal A, a new psychotisches live event. Their former work Modell 5 has been shown around the world to enthusiastic audiences. 28 - 31 October, in the Telekommunikationszentrum of the PTA, Knowbotic Research re-presents their Net Installation project, Anonymous Muttering: on dis/place/ment, is an impressive sound and light environment. For additional festival information: FestivalbŸro / Festival office steirischer herbst Sackstrasse 17/I Tel.: + 43 316 823007 Fax: + 43 316 835788 Mo Fr: 10.00 18.00 25. 9. - 31. 10. auch Sa + So: 11.00 - 18.00 e-mail: stherbst@ping.at http://www.stherbst.at