An exhibition of the Kunsthalle Wien in context of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2019
In any society, one fundamental field in which gender is expressed is technology. Technical skills and domains of expertise appear to be divided between the sexes, shaping masculinities and femininities.
In the contemporary West, which pioneered industrialization, allowing it to dominate the worldwide production of material and intellectual goods, of commodities, services, and desires, technology is firmly coded as male. Men are viewed as having a natural affinity with technology, whereas women supposedly fear or dislike it. Men actively engage with machines, making and using them. Women, too, may rely on machines but are effectively regarded as passive beneficiaries of the inventive flame. The modernist association of technology with masculinity translates into gender-specific everyday experiences, historical narratives, employment practices, education, the design of new technologies and the distribution of power across a global society that sees technology as the driving force of progress.
The exhibition analyses the material worlds we are creating through technology and technology’s role in shaping local and global configurations of power, forms of identity, and ways of living. It draws on radical feminist and techno-feminist theories from the 1970s until now that criticised and revised the nexus tying new technologies and technoscience to patriarchal ideas. The exhibition’s agenda is both intellectual and political. The works of the artists included in the show go beyond critique to think and enact other kinds of knowledge, skills, and bodily practices regarding the use as well as production of (new) technologies.
Artists: Trisha Baga, Louise Drulhe, Veronika Eberhart, Sylvia Eckermann & Gerald Nestler, Judith Fegerl, Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni, Katrin Hornek, Barbara Kapusta, Marlene Maier, Miao Ying, Pratchaya Phinthong, Marlies Pöschl, Delphine Reist, Tabita Rezaire
Curators: Anne Faucheret, Vanessa Joan Müller
Discursive space
The discursive space at Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz will be activated in September with a variety of events; from artist talks and performances to film programs, workshops and reading sessions. Barbara Kapusta will give a reading of her own writing, dancer Anne Juren will perform in the exhibition, Irene Posch will host a workshop on Handcrafting the Digital. Tabita Rezaire offers a collective sky-gazing during the full moon and Thomas Edlinger will host an evening addressing feminism and technology. Experimental artist’s films will feature at LE STUDIO Film und Bühne. All events are listed in the calendar and further down under program.
Community College: The Black Box Issues
Could there be an affectionate feminist algorithm? What knowledge(s) can we acquire about the inner processes of black boxes in order to be capable of action, criticism and to tackle technologically amplified discrimination? Open get-togethers, workshops and collective action in June (7/6 with Cornelia Sollfrank, 12/6, 21/6, 26/6 2019) and September (20 – 28/9 2019) – risking translations of what is only partially understood. More…
For dates, program and details on how to participate contact: community.college@kunsthallewien.at
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