The theme of this year’s Forum Expanded is “Traversing the Phantasm”. The programme sees experimental and artists’ film as a form of traversing real and imaginary territories that are manifested in (geo-)political realities and the fantastical constructs symptomatic of capitalist consumerist societies alike. The question also arises here as to what changes this type of traversing can and must trigger within us: what traces can be left behind by an art or film event? In reference to theoretician Jacques Lacan, the concept of the phantasm is reflected in numerous different ways, including in the sense of working through archives, social and political themes or collective fantasies.
The group exhibition “Traversing the Phantasm” includes 13 installations:
A MINA DOS VAGALUMES Raphaël Grisey
BBR 1 – NO. 1 OF BLOSSOM BUD RESTRAINER Liu Chuang
CHAO JU ZUO YONG (Action at a Distance) Yin-Ju Chen
GIRL TALK Wu Tsang
HYGIENE / SWACHH Pushpamala N.
KARTOSHKA (Potato) Lyusya Matveeva
MLEETA Sandra Schäfer
LES OXYMORES DE LA RAISON Kader Attia
THE PINK DETACHMENT Jen Liu
PSSST LEOPARD 2A7+ Natascha Sadr Haghighian
THE REFRAIN Angela Melitopoulos, unter Mitwirkung von Maurizio Lazzarato, Angela Anderson und Aya Hanabusa
SAFE DISASSEMBLY Andreas Bunte
TERRA NULLIUS OR: HOW TO BE A NATIONALIST James T. Hong

11.2. – 22.2. daily 11:00 – 21:00

OPENING Wednesday, 10.2., 19:00

Artist talks in the exhibition: 11.2. 14:00 / 20.2. 14:00

FINISSAGE: Monday, 22.2., 19:00 – 21:00