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Indepth Arts News: "Things We Don't Understand" 2000-01-28 until 2000-04-16 Generali Foundation Vienna, , AT Austria
Is there a difference between aesthetic experience and the experiences of
our daily life? The artists of this show use found objects, documentary
photographs, conventional fictions, use objects and genres. None of them
suppose these materials or their own means of expression to be neutral
but, rather, saturated in power relations. Though their works diverge in form
and content, all of the artists are interested in an aesthetic transformation of the
everyday. They want to irritate. However, the intention is neither to cause
misunderstanding or confusion for the observer; provoking a potentially
traumatic experience. Irritation as an artistic procedure is meant to create a
situation in which understanding itself is able to change. For this, we need
things we don’t understand.
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