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KAIROS. Recall of Earth addresses the relationship between humans and natural events. The term kairos relates to natural phenomena
on the one hand and to temporality on the other – kairos is the modern Greek word for "weather", but it also means "the right
moment". The ambiguity inherent in this word runs like a golden thread through the exhibition. Starting out with meteorological
aspects regarding the “weather”, the exhibition also tries to draw a picture of the psyche and its entanglement with natural
phenomena. The boundaries between different levels of perception dissolve; the influence of the outside world becomes tangible
and visible; the illusion of being able to control perceptions falls victim to deception itself.
The
show explores the contribution of the abstract cosmic and the concrete terrestrial conception of space in relation to space/time,
which can no longer be reduced to a philosophical-transcendental a priori as the still prevalent division of social contexts
and nature, of bodies and the psyche needs to be called into question. The exhibi- tion tries to trace possible dividing human
resources. Because, as Bruno Latour points out, “[…] the Terrestrial […] is political, […]; but it is not statist. It is,
literally, atmospheric.”* Maybe …
* Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New
Climatic Regime, Polity Press, 2018, 93.
Artists:
Irini Athanassakis,
Ulla von Brandenburg, Laurus Edelbacher, Thomas Glänzel, Maria Hubinger, Anni Kaltsidou, Mathias Kessler, Peter Kubelka, Alfred
Lenz, Brigitte Mahlknecht, Josefina Nelimarkka, Patrícia J. Reis, Ruth Schnell, Christian K. Schröder, Helmut Swoboda, Anna
Watzinger
Curator/project leader Sophia Panteliadou
Curatorial
consultants Madalina Diaconu, Rainer Kaltenberger
Co-production AIL– Angewandte
Innovation Lab
Picture on cover Ruth Schnell, Enchantment of the Seas, 2017/19, © R. Haas
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