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RADICAL CONTEMPORANEITY – Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid 35 years of work revisited (1982–2017)

Curated by Aneta Stojnić
Kunstraum Lakeside B02, Klagenfurt, Austria
Opening: 11.05.2017, 18.30h

This exhibition encompasses the most significant body of works by the Slovenian artists Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid developed over 35 years. Highly performative in the sense of producing the specific impact in current socio-political reality, their mode of production is prompted by a sharp and accurate sense of the contemporary context, in the way that each of their works is producing a specific account of what we will call radical contemporaneity. This means that not only have they been working with boiling political questions, but they have kept dealing with them as they are happening, always taking the risk to provide the analyses of traumatic presents, conscious of the historic momentum, yet with a clear understanding of the processes of historicization.

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KUNSTRAUM
LAKESIDE
Lakeside B02
9020 Klagenfurt, Austria
www.lakeside-kunstraum.at

Opening: 11.05.2017, 18.30h

Curator: Aneta Stojnić

Into the Now, performance by Marina Gržinić and Aneta Stojnić, 11.05.2017, 19h

Dystopian futures, panel discussion with jan jagodzinski, Martin G. Weiss, Marina Gržinić and Aneta Stojnić, 07.06.2017 at 18h

Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid are involved in videofilm experimental and political productions from 1982. They have collaborated in more than 40 video art projects; they made a short feature 16 mm film and numerous video and media installations. Marina Gržinić is doctor of philosophy and Professor at The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Aina Šmid is art historian and free-lance journalist.

Aneta Stojnić is theoretician, curator and artist. She works as assistant professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade.

jan jagodzinski is Professor of Visual Art and Media Education in the Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Martin G. Weiss is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt.


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