Aggression
La discorde (Zwietracht), (Glasgow) the Centre of Attention, 2007
AGGRESSION
Marc Bijl, Stefan Burger, The Centre of Attention, Brice Dellsperger, Tom Ellis, Joep van Liefland, Alex McQuilkin, Laura Parnes, SIS.TM, Sündikat, Alejandro Vidal
curated by Oliver Kielmayer and Dimitrina Sevova
Kunsthalle
Winterthur
Marktgasse 25
CH 8400 Winterthur
21 October
to 2 December 2007
Opening reception Sat Oct 20 at 6 pm
Opening hours: Wednesdays to Fridays 12 to 6pm, Saturdays and Sundays
12 to 4pm
"Marcuse
sees an incessant aggressive surrounding of contemporary opulent society
in which there is a yawning gap between established models of existence
and the real possibilities of human freedom. The society’s repressive
tolerance leads to stress, tension and inequality and finds its expression
in local conflicts. Via the pressure to conform and be normal, a historically
entirely new and institutionalized access to their subconscious, people
are drilled to become functioning consumers: normal body, normal family,
normal profession, normal love. If then the history of humanity may be
seen as an accumulation of downright destructive power, cruelty and aggression,
the question arises as to what opportunities are available to the contemporary
social subject or to society as a whole to deal with this aggression,
to tame this phenomenon that people are faced with in the hostile environment
of a globalized, highly technologized world in which we are suffering
day by day the shock treatment of daily news, in which the fears of the
end, of catastrophes and the forces of nature are ubiquitous."
Oliver Kielmayer and Dimitrina Sevova
With the kind support of the British Council
