15.01.2026 to 15.01.2026 - Kunsthalle Wien
SALOON Vienna: Screening and Q&A with Rah Eleh (EN)
DIGITAL, ART, FILM & DIGITAL CULTURE
SALOON Vienna: Screening and Q&A with Rah Eleh (EN)
Thu 15.01., 18.30 – 20h
The Kunsthalle Wien is pleased to host SALOON Wien with a screening of video artworks by Canadian-Iranian artist Rah Eleh. The programme will showcase "Prompt: Technofetishism (2025)", "DissemiNation" (2023) and "SuperNova" (2019). The screening will be followed by a Q&A with curator and historian Dr. Julia Hartmann.
Rah Eleh’s work critically engages heterogeneous speculative practices, their role in maintaining ethnic nationalism, and their championing of techno-utopianism. "Prompt: Technofetishism" brings these issues to the fore in discursive and relational encounters with leading scholars and thinkers in the burgeoning field of futurism, including Ytasha Womack, Catherine Ramírez, and Boddhisattva Chattopadhyay. "DissemiNation" unearths archival and textual findings to expose the construction of the nation, and juxtaposes romantic proclamations alongside ultraconservative, exclusionary rhetoric. "SuperNova" pursues queer and camp aesthetics to address a lacuna in the discourse and proposes Xenofuturist principles of pluriversality, unworlding, and unbelonging as a potential remedy for the genre’s shortcomings.
The screening will take place at the studio (lower floor) and is free of charge with a valid exhibition ticket.
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