Tipping Point Event

Space Medo and toZomia laden Sie herzlich zur
ERÖFFNUNG - “Tipping Point” ein

Location: Bloch-Bauer Promenade 28, 1100 Wien

Program:

17:00 Solar Kitchen
18:30 Opening
19:00 Film Screening: Behemoth
20:30 Artist Talk: Markus Sepperer

Artists: Li Yongzheng (CHN), Wei Fei (CHN), Qu Jianan (CHN), Ma Jia (CHN), Markus Sepperer (AT), Ben G. Fodor (AT), Song Jing (CHN), Liu Guangyun (CHN), Ma Zhandong (CHN)

Tipping point
The term „tipping point‟ in its most basic meaning refers to a critical point when unprecedented changes occur rapidly with irreversible effect. The political scientist Morton Grodzins in 1957 in his sociological studies on racial segregation to describe the critical threshold at which point the white population would leave an area where more and more black people were present.
Grodzins studied integrating American neighborhoods in the early 1960s. He discovered that most of the white families remained in the neighborhood as long as the comparative number of black families remained very small. But, at a certain point, when “one too many” black families arrived, the remaining white families would move out en masse in a process known as white flight. He called that moment the “tipping point”.
The term was popularized in application to daily life by Malcolm Gladwell’s 2000 bestselling book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. A tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. The exhibition “Tipping Point” invited nine contemporary artists from China and Austria to participate. They attempted to form a critical approach, personal interpretation and narrative of the tipping point in different social contexts and initially conduct a dialogue between the East and the West in this regard.

Behemoth (2015 film, Zhao Liang)

Behemoth is a Chinese documentary film directed by Zhao Liang about the environmental, sociological, and public health effects of coal-mining in China and Inner Mongolia. Behemoth is an example of the burgeoning wave of independent documentaries and films made with limited support and funding. Without the restrictions of a larger production company, these film-makers are able to express more politically scathing ideas without having to cater to the general box-office audience in China. This film was released in competition on September 11, 2015, at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.