Right to Refusal / exhibition curated by Eva Kraus and Doreen Mende / with The Otolith Group, Hassan Khan, Milica Tomic and others

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RIGHT TO REFUSAL

Opening 1/2/3 06 2012
Exhibition - 26 08 2012


Contributions by
Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh
Bassam El Baroni
Samir El Kordy
Jean-Luc Godard
Grupa Spomenik
(Jelena Petrović, Branimir Stojanović, Milica Tomić)
Adelita Husni Bey
Yazan Khalili
Hassan Khan
Eva Kraus
Doreen Mende
Karen Mirza and Brad Butler
Olaf Nicolai
Sherif Sonbol / Ulrike Müller
The Otolith Group
Milica Tomić
Simon Wachsmuth
Arthur Zalewski

01 06 Freitag / Friday
19.00 Uhr / 7pm
Welcome Wolfgang Fetz, Direktor
Introduction Eva Kraus und Doreen Mende, Kuratorinnen
Opening Judith Reichart, Stadträtin
21.00 Uhr / 9pm
Concert Hassan Khan

02 06 Samstag / Saturday
17.00 Uhr / 5 pm
Translation Project Grupa Spomenik
(Jelena Petrović, Branimir Stojanović, Milica Tomić, guests: Boris Buden, Doreen Mende)

03 06 Sonntag / Sunday
16.00 Uhr / 4pm
Performance Lecture Milica Tomić
17.30 Uhr / 5.30 pm
Round Table with the artists, Bassam El Baroni, Eva Kraus, Doreen Mende

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The exhibition Right to Refusal is held in an era in which people in various locations throughout the world are increasingly organizing themselves and banding together in groups to declare their independence from established ideologies. Recent revolutionary events may serve as a sounding-board for some of the questions the exhibition plans to address. However, the issue at the heart of Right to Refusal concerns the conditions under which the articulation of refusal takes place, both in topical themes and long-standing geopolitical conflicts as well as in everyday actions and artistic production. Initially, the only clarity in the right to refusal is the rejection, or at least the rigorous questioning, of existing structures. To give this refusal a widely heard voice, new ways and means must still be explored and uncharted methods tested. Right to Refusal proposes to use the exhibition space to develop a provisional language forged from a maze of contradictions and different voices. This is where the search for alternatives, new forms of expression and methods finds its creative potential, in debate and discussion involving art as a constituent element and a pathway.

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