The exhibition takes as its starting point the Utopian promises of socialist modernity. Rationality and functionality as objectives and in their implementation have led not only to a standardised formal expression, but also to a universalist concept of territory with an attitude of indifference to cultural diversity and individual aspirations. The intention here is to examine the fiction of function and functionality, the myth of rationality and the resulting individual and collective strategies of deviation or appropriation and cultural diversity from a contemporary artistic perspective.
The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be
November 28, 2004
until January 16, 2005
until January 16, 2005
with
Tadej Pogačar, Roman Ondak, Olaf Nicolai, Dorit Margreiter, Deimantas Narkevičius, Josef Dabernig, Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani
curated by
Barbara Steiner and Igor Zabel