Familiarity: Imperial Myths. Unexpected Queerings. Event

Exhibition and 5 o’clock Tea

FAMILIARITY.
Imperial Myths. Unexpected Queerings.
30.10.-24.11.2015

Simone Bader, Amoako Boafo, Rehad Desai, Mulugeta Gebrkidan, Maren Grimm, Lydia Hamann+Kaj Osteroth, Jakob Krameritsch, Sabelo Mlangeni, Ruby Sircar

Opening: 29.10.2015, 7pm

Programme:
03.11., 5pm: 5 o?clock Tea #1 Orange Blossom: Sabelo Mlangeni
18.11., 5pm: 5 o?clock Tea #2 Rooibos: Workshop Report: Film Screening: ?Aus der Distanz schwer möglich. Potemkin, Platin, Postkolonial?: Maren Grimm/Jakob Krameritsch
18.11., 7pm: Film Screening: ?Miners Shot Down?: Rehad Desai
21.11., 2pm: Guided Tour: Vienna Artweek
24.11., 5pm: 5 o’clock Tea #3 Punch: Artist Talk: Mulugeta Gebrekidan/Simone Bader/Andrea Braidt

THE FAMILIARITY CONCEPT
What is familiarity? According to Webster’s Dictionary the state of being familiar with/familiarity includes a range of possible interpretations – the most positive one: being close and intimate. But it also enfolds other possible meanings such as impropriety and includes notions of forced closeness. Bondings and entanglements which allow familiar relations and perspectives thus ensure a wide range of interpretations, especially when connected to various art forms and contents.
The invited artists and participants of the exhibition project all play with imagined, possible and actual familiarities which are rooted in decolonizing practices and invite the public to share their perspectives on migration, decolonization and queer artistic practices.

THE 5 O’CLOCK TEA CONCEPT
What could be more imperial then a steaming hot cup of tea, consumed with a cucumber sandwich? Going back on a traditional late-afternoon entertainment format, also practiced early on at the VBKOE, the project tries to break and discuss colonial images. So lean back and enjoy neo-imperiality deconstructed.

VBKÖ - Vereinigung bildender Künstler*innen Österreichs, Maysedergasse 2/4. Floor, 1010 Vienna
Opening Hours: Fri/Sat 3-7pm

Kindly supported by BKA, WIEN KULTUR and ]a[ academy of fine arts vienna.