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mumok Kino: Posthuman Complicities „I hear the waters’ song“

26.04.2017 to 26.04.2017 - mumok

mumok Kino: Posthuman Complicities „I hear the waters’ song“

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mumok Kino: Posthuman Complicities „I hear the waters’ song“ mumok Kino: Posthuman Complicities „I hear the waters’ song“

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wed, 26.04.2017
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Posthuman Complicities
„I hear the waters’ song“

Location:
mumok Kino

“I hear the waters’song” takes place in connection with the exhibition Posthuman Complicities currently on show at xhibit at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna: this exhibition addresses concepts of fluidity, the Atlantic, and the deep seas, seeing the ocean as a location of violence and resistance. The focus of the accompanying program at mumok cinema is on music as a store of colonial history, with a central role taken by the Detroit techno duo Drexciya. In a series of publications and an accompanying mythology, Drexciya reformulated a speculative version of the 1781 massacre on the slave ship Zong, transferring the story to the present day. A large number of filmmakers and artists have drawn on the work of Drexciya. Spirits from the past are conjured up, allowing their voices to be heard in the rhythms of language and song, and in essayistic and simulated moving images. Audre Lorde says: “I hear the waters’ song, feel the tides within the fluids of my body, hear the sea echoing my mother’s voices of survival […] I hear them resounding inside me from swish to boom – from the dark to the moon of fullness.”

Program

Hannah Black, My Bodies, 2015, 4 min

Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Finding Fanon Part Two, 2015, 10 min

Paul Maheke, What Flows Through and Across, 2017, 14 min

Akosua Adoma Owusu, Drexciya, 2010, 11 min

The Otolith Group, Hydra Decapita, 2010, 31 min

Presented by Andrea Popelka and Lisa Stuckey

Andrea Popelka lives in Berlin. She has a background in cultural studies, and works as an author and curator. She has co-curated exhibitions at ACUD gallery, Berlin, the Phyletisches Museum in Jena, the Animal Anatomy Theater in Berlin, and Kunsthalle Vienna. Popelka is interested in the “art of not being governed like that” (Michel Foucault), and the extent to which this can be applied to a curating of resistance.

Lisa Stuckey lives in Vienna. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. She has participated in exhibitions and screenings at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, mumok cinema, and Künstlerhaus Vienna. Publications among others in Journal for Artistic Research and NEUE kunstwissenschaftliche forschungen.

The exhibition Posthuman Complicities takes place from March 10 to May 14, 2017, at xhibit at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.



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wed:10:00 – 20:00
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Due to renovations, mumok is closed from January 8 until June 6, 2024.


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