Academy of Fine Arts Vienna presents a group show featuring 15 artists in the exhibition and conference of "Hauntopia/What if" in Venice.The artists featured are Aline Benecke, Katalin Erdődi, Zsuzsi Flohr, Sílvia das Fadas, Moira Hille, Zosia Hołubowska, Hristina Ivanoska, Janine Jembere, Ruth Jenrbekova, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Rafał Morusiewicz, Lisa Nyberg, Read-in, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Masha Godovannaya and Keiko Uenishi bringing forth the haunts of yesteryears to predict the various possible futures each of which encourage a haunting visual.The exhibition brings forth the ‘haunts’ of the recent times. In times like this, the violent political upheaval plays a major role in the collective psyche of the artists and the makers of the world and off course the populace of the planet itself. "Hauntopia/What if" brings forth the ‘haunts’ of today through artistic practices and discussions. The exhibition explores the illusions of the many spectres that haunt the collective psyche as a proper method for the art-based researches. The aim is to rediscover the ghostly of images through artistic events, signs, paintings and other image-making practices and portray objects that reinvent the atrocities of the past, the haunts and the ferocities that terrify the time. The possibilities of the various futures are not also out of the spectrum. The exhibition builds on the glossary of hauntopic devices and uses a unique blend of the ephemeral, opaque, or sci-fi elements and explores a range of ghostly aesthetics.The exhibition is complemented with a conference that also employs the concept of haunting to create a language for the ways in which an unfinished past makes itself known in the here and now by Avery Gordon matched with a discussion on violent histories, or stories that would initiate ongoing disruptions, wronging the wrong by Eve Tuck. Haunting often takes place when an official narrative insists that the violence of subjection and injustice is overcome. A good example of that method of ingesting a haunt would be, after the liberation from colonialism, after Stonewall, at the end of a war. It also appears when the oppression is strictly denied by the administrative authorities, who in most cases than not are the inflictors of the haunt. Now ghosts “appear” as agency in-between subjectivities, images, and spaces and insist on a response. As the haunting becomes real, it stimulates an imagination of how things could be otherwise. It’s the research of the means and possibilities by which the ‘now’ could welcome the spectre of the past and make unresolved social violence demand the due.The exhibition is on view through September 15 at The Research Pavilion, Sala del Camino, Campo S. Cosmo, Giudecca, 621 (Vaporetto stop Palanca), Venice, Italy.For details, visit: https://www.akbild.ac.at/portal_en/akbild_startpageClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek of the artworks.
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