invited by concrete fortune - sex rules

“(…), if a disposition of an action is existent pertaining to an instinct movement (…)”.

The exhibition, entitled Sex Rules, is both private and public. Staged in a private apartment in Vienna but publicly accessible, the intimacy at the core of the piece is transformed into a walk-in cabinet of fantasies big and small.

As reflected in the many diverse works in Sex Rules, power mechanisms, as well as the privilege gained from access to them, transform, intensify, control and monitor the subdued strengths of the self and of the other. Aristotle philosophized that the human is an animal: his “politics” concern his life and reflect in a strict sense the wholeness of his baser needs. Within the body sex becomes the object of perception and of desire, both bound to cultural patterns and subversive games.

Sex within the religious definition, with the sole function of procreation, or psychologically as a clear dispositive power, implements a categorical black and white contrast- the self-controlled, disciplined, neurotic subject, who suffers from obsessive cleanliness, overstepping the boundaries and loss of the balance.

Sex Rules is more than an attempt to establish an intersection between the functional and the aim- a tale told not without a kind of irony but also with the lust to arouse perceptions.

It is overlapping appetence behaviour: hunger initiated by fantasy, thus activated hunting, the creeping on the bag, the chasing and the killing occlusion- but as long as no final action will take place appetence is formed, i.e. it is an ever-increased desire- a survive-live-force-technology, or a strategy?

The sex, the drive and the fixation on the object in the sense of acquisition also referring to the “anatomical-physiological apparatus” will outline the interlacing of the manifestation by signs and sign language, also a part of the human hysteria and perversion- likewise a game, reason and lack, plus the outrage and the weakness in reality and on the lust is shown in the materiality of the images.

Biology for the principles of “the normality”; Christian pastoral care on the flesh and the centuries-old insanity of stigmata- bodies, identity, the understanding of roles and role plays, the right of self-determination, knowledge and power strategies plus the development of the deceits and skills -gender-specifical considered.

with works by following artists:

Ellen Cantor, Mathias Deutsch, Thomas Draschan, Ilse Haider, Paule Hammer, Marlene Haring, Paul Horn, Anna Jermolaeva, Angelika Krinzinger, Leo Kogan, Corinne von Lebusa, Joep van Liefland, David Nicholson, Hermann Nitsch, Manfred Peckl, Rigo Schmidt, Leopold Schuster, Eva Schwab, Dallas Seitz, Marcus Sendlinger, Clarissa Stadler, Caro Suerkemper, Hans Petri, Kai Teichert, Alex Tennigkeit, VIP, Nives Widauer