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<div class="">Unseen Sights – Part 2<br class="">
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Installation by gottrekorder e.v. at Neuer Kunstverein
Wien<br class="">
as part of the Independent Space Index Festival 2022<br
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22.–26.06.2022, 12:00–19:00<br class="">
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Open discussion with Andreas Spiegl<br class="">
Wednesday 22.06.2022, 14:30–15:30<br class="">
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NKW<br class="">
Rennweg 110-116, A-1030 Wien<br class="">
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R.G. for gottrekorder e.v., Vienna, 06.04.2022<br
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Unseen Sights<br class="">
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The emptiness that becomes ritual is real.<br class="">
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After post-modernity comes, is now – real
postmodernism!<br class="">
The replacement of rational decisions by aesthetic
ones – without a link. The reversal, the turning back
to faith, the stupidity of self-empowerment as and in
therapeutic impotence, inexperiencabilty of
significate, realisations of multiple virtualities –
into an easy standardising “pluralism for the future”.<br
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(Beautifully ideology-free?)<br class="">
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"What is done to our individual life experience by
means of high-tech, namely to let it dissolve its own
experience in its experience, is also applied
post-modernly to the social past, which thanks to
high-tech becomes so recitable that it can be received
immediately, as if one had travelled to yesterday, so
that one is no longer from yesterday, but from after
yesterday."<br class="">
B.S.<br class="">
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Of this it must be said: what is presented as drafted
is here already practically closed in the draft –
never open.<br class="">
The necessarily selective traversal of the always
instantly different river as a polylogy of
artistic-aesthetic practices stabilises into the
constant outflow of productions that can/are allowed
to be thematised and commented on as artistic
decisions – to become nonchalant but no longer
negotiated (in the sense of processual vividness or,
even more, actual – with respect to their
potentialities – presence).<br class="">
Above all, more and more technical (applied) new
additions, whether as materials for informing and
information or as tools for doing this (the means
justify the means, the end is mediocrity), have been
and are being integrated, concisely presented.<br
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There is necessarily an overlapping of sense data,
mixing and cancelling, a "cross-over esotericism" of
pop-formalist content evacuation. Even an opposition
of form-statement-institutions within a few decades or
even years. Levellingly global in different places and
for different groups.<br class="">
In relation to the Western industrialised and everyday
digitalised art world, however, the zenith is already
well passed and tendencies are recognisable which,
while not a retrogressive movement, yet correspond to
the actually usable potential of supposedly innovative
technologies; weighed against the statements actually
obtained and produced in this way.<br class="">
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Was that the choice then?<br class="">
Virtual therapy (self-empowerment) and infantilism
instead of rationalization and technocracy? The living
zoon politikon is desired dwindlingly small, should
desire to give way to "anything goes", adoring itself
as an art figure, making aesthetic/more theological
decisions or not making them, individualized
collectively and throwing around and away from itself.
Rather art figure without conscience (historical
experienceability) than real (acting) person. Seen
sociologically, a pseudo-political "colour-blindness"
independent of class? Who is going to shoot whom
virtually? Just so.<br class="">
The impatience of the bourgeoisie, jiggling at the
world clasps, has passed loss at the short-lived
longeurs of the last decades of the last millennium;
and how could it revolt otherwise than as a
history-less non-rebellion of the real postmodernist
generations?<br class="">
To whom can all the utopias, efforts, constant toil
(formerly the civilizing project) be left now? Is the
old time still young?<br class="">
(Post-modernness faked for real.)<br class="">
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Better one cannot ...<br class="">
Because this always has, what appears aesthetically
charming, the consequence of justifying itself, if at
all possible, also ethically.*<br class="">
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Burghart Schmidt, Zeitökonomie des Individualismus
(Wien, Edition Splitter, 1996), 86.<br class="">
Cf. Umberto Eco, Kunst und Schönheit im Mittelalter
(München, Carl Hanser, 1991).<br class="">
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Translated by Jonathan Uhlaner</div>
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