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Opening of the 4th exhibition of ”Land of Human Rights“
Saturday, October 4th 2008, at 6 p.m.
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Saturday, October 4 2008
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of the exhibition
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Participating Artists
Ingo Abeska (Graz)
Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson (Rotterdam)
Tanja Dabo (Rijeka)
Enks (Graz)
Igor Grubić (Zagreb)
Lisl Ponger (Vienna)
Nada Prlja (London / Skopje)
Khaled D. Ramadan (Copenhagen)
Delaine und Damian Le Bas (Worthing, Sussex)
Aandrea Ressi (Vienna)
Szu Szu (Warsaw)
Sylvia Winkler & Stephan Köperl (Stuttgart)
Duration of the exhibition: 5.10. – 29.11.2008
Opening Hours: DI – SA, 10 am – 6 pm, SO, 11 am – 4 pm
Adress: Volksgartenstraße 6a, Corner Orpheumgasse, 8020 Graz
Happiness in life for everyone! It fails. The categorical imperative stops
at the other, the unknown, the unfamiliar. Foreign customs, religion, other
languages, even skin colours form the building material for barricades of fear,
equally around Fortress Europe. Strategies of breaking them down seem increasingly
helpless. Xenophobic thinking and acting becomes a calamity for all those who
leave their homelands, setting out not only with their needs but also their
ideas and dreams in search of a better future.
Those stereotypes that become fixed in our minds as a concomitant of xenophobia
are a central aspect of ”Counter Images for Transcultural Thinking and
Acting“. This is the point where a field of activity opens up for art:
Alternative images are possible and we can work on developing the present situation
under different auspices. Such counter-concepts empower us to hone our view
and revise the conceptions stored in our own minds. ”Wie du mir“
works on counter images for thinking and acting beyond national, cultural and
religious boundaries.
The exhibition project "tit.for.tat. Counter Images for Transcultural Thinking
and Acting" is taking place at: Afro-Asiatisches
Institut, Chiala Afriquas,
ISOP, KHG-Galerie,
Megaphon, Minoriten-Galerien
im Priesterseminar, Public Space.
Co-produced by steirischer
herbst, Afro-Asiatisches Institut, ISOP, KHG, Kulturzentrum bie den Minoriten
& < rotor >.