Zeros and Ones
3 July – 19 September 21
Artists: Lutz Bacher, Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Hanne Darboven, Jana Euler, Jef Geys, Tishan Hsu, Ilmari Kalkkinen, Silvia Kolbowski, Pope L., Louise Lawler, Carolyn Lazard, Ghislaine Leung, Lee Lozano, Henrik Olesen, Sarah Rapson, Margaret Raspé, readymades belong to everyone®, Ketty La Rocca, Sturtevant, Otto Wagner, and Martin Wong
Image: Lutz Bacher, In Memory of My Feelings (Detail), 1990; Courtesy The Estate of Lutz Bacher and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York
The group exhibition Zeros and Ones investigates the ways artists operate within their surrounding institutional structures. Taking the algorithmic paradigm in scripting, scoring, instruction, or command, the works selected systematically complicate these procedures through lived experience. Tools and tasks are mobilized without measurable outcome while always returning to the material conditions of their labor. Through subtle redistributions, infrastructure and the body are both intimately as well as violently situated towards each other. The practices of artists such as Lutz Bacher, Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Hanne Darboven, Jana Euler, Jef Geys, Tishan Hsu, Ilmari Kalkkinen, Silvia Kolbowski, Pope L., Louise Lawler, Carolyn Lazard, Lee Lozano, Henrik Olesen, Sarah Rapson, Margaret Raspé, readymades belong to everyone®, Ketty La Rocca, Sturtevant, Otto Wagner, and Martin Wong, prompt us to question the metrics and hierarchies that are being reproduced in the field of art and beyond.
Curators: Kathrin Bentele, Anna Gritz, Ghislaine Leung
Exhibition walkthrough with Anna Gritz and Kathrin Bentele. Closed Captions in German and English can be activated in the Vimeo player. (Camera: Frank Sperling)
Short exhibition trailer in German Sign Language (Concept and moderation: Andreas Döltgen, Camera: Frank Sperling)
The exhibition Zeros and Ones is made possible through support from the Capital Cultural Fund.
With generous support by Gebrüder Thonet Vienna.
Media cooperation: Missy Magazine
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