Forbidden Love
Art in the Wake of Television Camp
35% installation
40% TV
25% image


The big debates of the seventies and eighties about television are now forgotten – television has long since asserted itself as a medium of mass effect, with hardly any media-critical and technology-critical artistic projects questioning it. How do artists interested in television, in both its pop culture image productions and its passive consumption experience this influential ”dowager”? What possibilities does it hold as a venue of politics?
”Forbidden Love: Art in the wake of television camp” examines television as a reactive, open process, as a space of battling for attention, (self-) presentation and affect that popularises the discourse on identity, gender and difference. As a powerful construction, the derived images define the theme of the exhibition, which plays with a media-tised production process and lures us out of our accustomed attitude as viewers.
The exhibits start out from television as an apparatus of image production and go on to explore the potentials of a symbolic transfer of common codes and meanings inherent in the genres and engage in specific metaphorical interpretations by investigating current image productions and looking for possibilities of a different kind of television.

Video

Kunstverein Medienturm: Verbotene Liebe



Co-produced by steirischer herbst, Kunstverein Medienturm & Kölnischer Kunstverein

25/09 - 27/11

Tue - Sat 10 am - 1 pm
Wed - Sun 3 - 6 pm

Sat 25/09, 10 am
Vernissage

Admission free




Kunstverein Medienturm
With
BitteBitteJaJa (D), Christoph Draeger / Reynold Reynolds (CH/USA), Omer Fast (IL), Marlene Haring (A), Sanja Ivecović (HR), Zuzanna Janin (PL), Judith Hopf / Stephan Geene (D), Marko Lulić (A), Frédéric Moser / Philippe Schwinger (CH), Susanne Schuda (A), Heimo Zobernig (A) et al.

Curated by
Sandro Droschl (A)

medienturm.at


25/09 - 27/11

Tue - Sat 10 am - 1 pm
Wed - Sun 3 - 6 pm

Sat 25/09, 10 am
Vernissage

Admission free




Kunstverein Medienturm

With
BitteBitteJaJa (D), Christoph Draeger / Reynold Reynolds (CH/USA), Omer Fast (IL), Marlene Haring (A), Sanja Ivecović (HR), Zuzanna Janin (PL), Judith Hopf / Stephan Geene (D), Marko Lulić (A), Frédéric Moser / Philippe Schwinger (CH), Susanne Schuda (A), Heimo Zobernig (A) et al.

Curated by
Sandro Droschl (A)

medienturm.at



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