31/03/2022
While some claim that we have never been modern (alluding to Bruno Latour), others assume that we entered a state of late modernism, believe that we are still in postmodernity or fall in line with Ulrich Beck´s concept of a second modernity.
The spirit of modernism and its discourse-shaping impact and after-effects on the state of contemporary art as well as the noticeable echo of the artistic avant-garde are the central motifs of our inquiry into the ontological foundation and current relevance of the term through an open interpretation of the various dispositifs. Buster Keaton's cinematic work serves as a backdrop for this examination, in which the excessive use of technical devices and mechanized processes apodictically anticipates three aspects of our present: the existential inevitability of failure, the post-humanistic ecology of things and the concomitant shifts in the authority of sematic interpretation, as well as the radical questioning of the teleological horizon of meaning.
Shown in 2018 in Kunstraum NÖ, in 2020 in Schauraum Q21
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