[rohrpost] Superenhanced in Italy
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Mit Jan 14 17:21:58 CET 2009
brzzl-buzz,
anbei den englischen einladungstext unserer nächsten ausstellung;
und ein foto (keine ahnung ob das auf die mliste durchkommt)
hans, lizvlx & the girlz
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Superenhanced
OPENING & PERFORMANCE: Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 6.00 PM
From January 17 to March 7, 2009
3.00 – 7.00 PM, closed on Sunday
Fabio Paris Art Gallery is proud to announce the second solo
exhibition by the Austrian artist duo UBERMORGEN.COM, presenting the
world preview of the project “Superenhanced”, which is dedicated
to the pressing issue of torture. Though torture is banned almost
everywhere, it has re-emerged under a new set of names with the
neutral, tidy, functional language of marketing and branding. http://
ipnic.org/superenhanced
Kidnapping is now called “extraordinary rendition”, and torture
is “enhanced interrogation”: “an efficient way to extract
valuable information from unwilling detainees” that uses so-called
“soft” techniques such as the Attention Grab (the interrogator
forcefully grabs the prisoner’s shirt front and shakes them) and the
Attention Slap (an open-handed slap to the face); the Belly Slap (a
hard open-handed slap to the abdomen, able to cause pain, but not
internal injury); this then continues into “harsh techniques” like
then Long Time Standing, with prisoners forced to stand, handcuffed,
for more than 40 hours; the Cold Cell, where the prisoner is left to
stand naked in a cell kept near 10 degrees Celsius; Waterboarding, a
controlled form of drowning, and Sleep Deprivation, where they are
not allowed to sleep for several days. These are mostly psychological
techniques, which do not leave marks on the detainee’s body, and
have been used for years (since the Reagan administration) in
America’s Supermax prisons (but also in places like Kandahar, Bagram
Airbase and Guantanamo Bay) to prepare ‘unlawful enemy
combatants’ (including numerous children) for interrogation. The
final set of methods used by authorities are the classic extremely
brutal ones: Hanging prisoners by their wrists for days, beating
prisoners, breaking bones, amputation of limbs, starving prisoners
and killing prisoners.
UBERMORGEN.COM gets to grips with this sinister subject matter, but
rather than condemning a human rights outrage that is there for all
to see, appears to be more interested, on one hand, in exploring the
hypocrisies of the language that renders it acceptable, and on the
other the moral position of the spectator when exposed to ambiguous
questions and disturbing images. The point of departure is the
Superenhanced Generator, a web project (displayed in installation
form) that contains a smart interrogation engine, basically capable
of comprehending the spectator’s responses, and that generates a
fake legal document (a foriginal), modelled on rendition orders and
interrogation protocols.
The installation is accompanied by a series of photographic prints
( http://ipnic.org/superenhanced/photos.html ) and a video which
adopt the ascetic aesthetic of maximum security prisons representing
child prisoners undergoing intimidation and torture: the photos are
staged poses of a reality that no-one wants to believe in – a
reality that is conveyed to the public eye as a form “collateral
damage” in a “necessary” fight against terror. The images are
nicely lit and professionally produced, but they are profoundly
unsettling due to the truths that lie beneath their patina of glamour.
On the evening of the opening, the installation will be accompanied
by a performance.
UBERMORGEN.COM (lizvlx & Hans Bernhard, www.ubermorgen.com) is an
artist duo based in Vienna, Austria. Behind UBERMORGEN.COM we can
find one of the most unmatchable identities – controversial and
iconoclast – of the contemporary European techno-fine-art avant-
garde. Their open circuit of conceptual art, drawing, software art,
pixelpainting, computer installations, net.art, sculpture and digital
activism (media hacking) transforms their brand into a hybrid
Gesamtkunstwerk.
In February/March 2009, Christoph Merian Verlag (Publisher) will
release: HANS BERNHARD, LIZVLX - UBERMORGEN.COM, MEDIA HACKING VS.
CONCEPTUAL ART, ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO (ED.) with contributions by Olia
Lialina, Dragan Espenschied, Florian Cramer, Yukiko Shikata, Cornelia
Sollfrank, Inke Arns, Peter Weibel, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Marina
Grzinic, Grischinka Teufl, Stefan Nussbaumer, Jacob Lillemose,
Nebojsa Milikic, Raffael Doerig, Domenico Quaranta and 2 Interviews
(WMMNA & Neural.it). And in February 2009, FPEditions
(www.fpeditions.com) will publish the monograph UBERMORGEN.COM
(edited by Domenico Quaranta, with contributions by Inke Arns and
Jodi.org).
fabioparisartgallery
via Alessandro Monti 13 - 25121 Brescia - tel. 030 3756139 - Skype:
fabioparisbs
www.fabioparisartgallery.com
Superenhanced is supported by MIGROS kulturprozent

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