Beyond Dystopia

hopeful and catastrophic futures of public spaces & cities

Eröffnung: 09.12.2020, 15-20 Uhr
Ausstellungsdauer: bis 12.03.2020

Artists:
Linda Steiner, Käthe Löffelmann, Mariella Lehner, Moiz, Colin Linde, HNRX, David Leitner, NDZW, JAKOB der Bruder, Golif, Vunik, FATI

BEYOND DYSTOPIA is an open discourse of hopeful and catastrophic futures. While this look into the future might serve as a motivation to change the ways we operate day to day, it also questions the dominant trends and creates strategies to move forward.
As Richard A.Slaughter (1998) put it: “The speculative imagination is a higher-order human capacity that can productively explore the not-here and the not-yet. To some extent it is already doing so. But these explorations are limited by prevailing cultural assumptions. (…) there are other arenas to explore that, were they taken seriously, could exert sufficient symbolic ‘pull’ to qualify as desirable images of futures. They could then begin to act as ‘magnets’ for the realisation of possibilities that are presently obscured.”
Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization, tyrannical governments, environmental disasters, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society. But what happens when we are walking through the blurry line between fiction and reality? Are we currently living in a dystopian society? What is the space allying a dystopia and what’s beyond?
Linda Steiner, Käthe Löffelmann, Mariella Lehner, Moiz, Colin Linde, HNRX, David Leitner, NDZW, JAKOB der Bruder, Golif, Vunik, and FATI’s artworks, will each function as a visualization not just of the future but will represent the current – and very real – state of the world. However, the exhibition will remain sufficiently open to allow visitors to make up their own stories.

Curated by:
AG18 & Improper Walls

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To ensure your and our safety, preregistration for timed entry will be required.