On annotating, editing and making text in contemporary art
Opening : 5.6.2025, 7 PM
Artists: Anahita Asadifar, Sanna Helena Berger, Lara Dâmaso, Joshua Leon, Ville Laurinkoski, Prosopopoeia, Rietlanden Women’s Office, Lisa Robertson, Shanzhai Lyric, Miriam Stoney, Ian Waelder und Eleanor Ivory Weber
Burn The Diaries, Read Them Out Loud is an exhibition incorporating a programme of performance, readings and discursive exchange with a focus on text in the field of contemporary art. Conceived as a group exhibition in progress, artworks installed at its inception will be in dialogue with numerous performative interventions taking place at and around Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz over a course of five months. Looking closely at the practice of annotating, editing and writing in art, the format considers text as a skeleton of artmaking, expanding its status beyond the preliminary note.
Artists employing text in their work are invited to use the exhibition as a space for production and experimentation. A display, specially-conceived by artist Ian Waelder in conversation with the artists, curator and institution, forms a setting ready for interaction, as well as a site for reference and meeting. In this scenario the exhibition serves as a page upon which artworks and performances are inscribed as interrelated notes – sampling, (mis)quoting and rehearsing themselves and one another.
Thursday, June 5, 7:00 PM
Opening with a performance by Ville Laurinkoski
Saturday, June 14, 4:00 PM
Performance by Lara Dâmaso
Thursday, July 3, 6:00 PM
Performance by Eleanor Ivory Weber and Cassandra Seltman
July (exact date to be announced)
Performance by Shanzhai Lyric
Thursday, September 4, 6:00 PM
Performance by Sanna Helena Berger
Saturday, September 20, 2:00 PM
Workshop with Prosopopoeia hosted by Inga Charlotte Thiele
September (exact date to be announced)
Lecture and conversation by Lisa Robertson
October (exact date to be announced)
Performative reading by Joshua Leon
October (exact date to be announced)
Performative reading by Miriam Stoney
October (exact date to be announced)
Discursive event with Anahita Asadifar