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:: KAIROS. Recall of Earth addresses
the relationship between humans and natural events. The term kairos relates to natural phenomena on the one hand and to temporality
on the other – kairos is the modern Greek word for "weather", but it also means "the right moment". The ambiguity inherent
in this word runs like a golden thread through the exhibition. Starting out with meteorological aspects regarding the “weather”,
the exhibition also tries to draw a pic- ture of the psyche and its entangle- ment with natural phenomena. The boundaries
between different levels of perception dissolve; the influence of the outside world becomes tangible and visible; the illusion
of being able to control perceptions falls victim to deception itself.
The show explores
the contribution of the abstract cosmic and the concrete terrestrial conception of space in relation to space/time, which
can no longer be reduced to a philosophical-transcendental a priori as the still prevalent division of social contexts and
nature, of bodies and the psyche needs to be called into question. The exhibi- tion tries to trace possible dividing human
resources. Because, as Bruno Latour points out, “[…] the Terrestrial […] is political, […]; but it is not statist. It is,
literally, atmospheric.”* Maybe …
* Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the
New Climatic Regime, Polity Press, 2018, 93.
Artists:
Irini Athanassakis,
Ulla von Brandenburg, Laurus Edelbacher, Thomas Glänzel, Maria Hubinger, Anni Kaltsidou, Mathias Kessler, Peter Kubelka, Alfred
Lenz, Brigitte Mahlknecht, Josefina Nelimarkka, Patrícia J. Reis, Ruth Schnell, Christian K. Schröder, Helmut Swoboda, Anna
Watzinger
Curator/project leader Sophia Panteliadou
Curatorial
consultants Madalina Diaconu, Rainer Kaltenberger
Co-production AIL– Angewandte
Innovation Lab
Picture on cover Ruth Schnell, Enchantment of the Seas, 2017/19, © R. Haas
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