Dancing ever closer to strangely alive
and deeply compelling human⇌machine⇌interspecies co-evolutions, we find ourselves moving away from the old materialist canons
of method, rationality and reason that asked: “supposing it could be otherwise, what would your otherwise look like” towards
a slightly more graphic, urgent, raw, re-think: “supposing it already is ‘otherwise’”– how does this ‘otherwise’ enable new
forms of agency, aliveness, and responsibility in the face of multi-modal generative Ai, non-conscious cognitions, TouchDesigner?
Our initial answers demanded a full ‘stripping-off’. A radical⇌matter that demands: Strip away the old metaphysics of materialism!
Strip off the speculative, object-oriented, historical or idealist well-past-their-sell-by-date wine in new bottles! Strip
off these old knowledge systems which for so long have occluded new imaginaries, different forms of resistance, poetics, and
libidinal economies. Take a walk with us on the wild side – a wild side that is already here, shape-shifting and proliferating.
Artists:Amir Bastan, Sonia Bernac, Yasmine Boudiaf, Jonathan Boyd, Bernhard Cella, Clarissa
Leonie Cohausz, Selina de Beauclair, Sylvia Eckermann, Maximilian Gallo, Johnny Golding, Ivonne Gracia Murillo, Tonica Hunter,
Ajamu Ikwe-Tyehimba, Ameera Kawash, Jeremy Keenan, Gerhard Lang, Tina Lechner, Thandi Loewenson, Manu Luksch, Gerald
Nestler, Jannis Neumann, Harold Offeh, Julian Palacz, Mukul Patel, Maggie Roberts, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Linn Phyllis
Seeger, Dario Srbic, Noor Stenfert Kroese, Tanja Traxler, Shira Wachsmann, John Wild, Julia Wolf
Curatorial
Team:Johnny Golding, Martin Reinhart, Tanja Traxler
The Radical Matter exhibition and symposium is part
of a PEEK artistic research project hosted by the Art & Science department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in
cooperation with the Royal College of Art London. We would like to thank the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and all our project
partners.
Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri: 13:00–18:00 /
Thu: 13:00–20:00
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