Performance: Geyer/ McElheny - The infinite repetition of revolt

20.30 h MUMOK
ANDREA GEYER (D/USA) / JOSIAH McELHENY (USA)
The infinite repetition of revolt, 2010
Im Rahmen der Performance-Reihe und Ausstellung Push and Pull

TICKETS: 9 EUR

“In…(this county), however, the…(movement) must make up by its own efforts an entire historic period. It must lead the (disenfranchised) from their present “atomized” condition, which prolongs the automatic regime, to an… organization that would help them to become aware of their historic objectives and prepare them to struggle to achieve those objectives.”
(Rosa Luxemburg)

A sculpture, reminiscent of a double-sided blackboard, is situated in an exhibition space. It is freestanding, nothing else close by. Either side of the sculpture presents on its shiny black glass surface words and sketched diagrams mapping different forms of organization of ideas, actions and people. Midway through the duration of the exhibition, the sculpture becomes the site of an event: A social event and an event of words addressed to an audience. Ideas are formed, delivered, and retraced. It is an event of knowledge and of poetic utterance. Then it ends. What remains is a trace in a sculpture that now conceals itself in quiet presence. It merely looks back at its observers, resonating the memories of ideas passed on.