If you were asked what object represents a “good life” for you, what would it be? A blanket, a coffee cup, a book, a group photo, a new cover for the sofa, an ID card, …?
To what extent does the object that comes to your mind speak about the relationships within and the difficulties of your life, and about the social conditions in which they are embedded? Are there any unrealized possibilities, dreams, and wishes, possibly even utopias, to be discovered in the stories? Especially if we pursue the question together.
The workshop series LET’S BE REALISTIC! is an invitation to explore these questions during two weekends in July. Based on an intensive examination of the artefacts in the exhibition Averklub Collective. Manuš Means Human, connecting lines will be drawn to objects and stories that the workshop participants bring along .
Following a suggestion by the Soviet writer Sergei Tretyakov, we want to arrive at an analysis of socio-political relationship dynamics through the writing of “thing biographies” and, based on this, at visions of how we want to live (together).
As a result of the workshops, ”companion objects” will be created – leaflets and picture postcards that will accompany future visitors through the exhibition.
With inputs by Katharina Graf-Janoska, Heide Hammer, Gilda Nancy Horvath, Andreas Lehner, Samuel Mago, Andreas Pavlic, Žaklina Radosavljević, Michaela Schipper-Schauer, Ioana Spataru, Lea Susemichel, Vivaro (Žaklina Radosavljević, Lavinia Seidel), a.o.
Concept and realization: Andrea Hubin and Melinda Tamás
All dates
Information, getting to know each other & possibility to register: Wednesday, 23/6 2021, 5 pm, Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier
1st workshop weekend: Friday, 2/7 to Sunday, 4/7, Tuesday, 6/7 2021, from 2 to 6 pm
2nd workshop weekend: Friday, 16/7 to Sunday, 18/7, Tuesday, 20/7 2021, from 2 to 6 pm
Registration until Jily 1st is required. There is a possibility to register in the frame of the get-to-know date.
For further information and registration write to: Andrea.Hubin@kunsthallewien.at
Participation is free of charge. Free entry to the exhibition.
Language(s): German (English, Hungarian, French, Romanes, Romanian, … as required)
Partial participation is possible. A detailed program will be published here soon.
The workshops will take place as group activities at Kunsthalle Wien, as excursions and/or online, in accordance with the current Covid 19 prevention regulations.