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Beschreibung
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When Jimi Hendrix released Purple Haze in 1967, he did not intend to issue a pop-environmentalist manifesto – yet this was
precisely how the song was read by the Hungarian-American artist György Kepes. In the 1969 essay 'Art and Ecological Consciousness',
the director of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies interpreted the refrain of Hendrix’s hit record – “Excuse me while
I kiss the sky” – as an expression of “hopes of the richer, expanded world” and anger at humankind’s “short-sighted selfishness”.
Testifying to the first cosmic journeys, advance of first network media and birth of planetary capitalism, Kepes insisted
that the closed circuits of information flows and economic exchange on the Earth must be re-imagined as if experienced from
the outside. It was artists like Jimi Hendrix that Kepes saw fit for the task of dissociating the modern human’s self-centered
perception of the world – trying to see it from within and beyond at once; staying engaged in the human affairs while acknowledging
the existence of the temporalities, spaces and agencies that surpass the “here and now” of modernity. In works of many contemporary
artists, the impending ecological catastrophe and globally relevant social issues are framed within a posthuman, planetary
perspective.
The exhibition 'While I Kiss the Sky' traces the dissociative aesthetics’ development throughout the last century. With work
by Nikolaus Gansterer, Alicja Kwade, Natalia LL, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Katja Novitskova, Otto Piene, Sung Tieu & Debora Delmar,
Guan Xiao. On the 12th of September 2019, at 6 pm festive opening of the group exhibition at Galerie Gabriele Senn in Vienna,
Austria in the framework of "curated by festival". Curated by Goschka Gawlik & Arkadiusz Półtorak.
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Künstler*innen
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Nikolaus Gansterer, Kwade, Alicja, Natalia LL,, Moholy-Nagy, László, Novitskova, Katja, Otto Piene, Tieu, Sung, Debora Delmar, Guan, Xiao
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Ort
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Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna, Austria, Schleifmühlgasse, Vienna, Austria
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