Verbotene Liebe

The big debates of the seventies and eighties about television are now forgotten – television has long since asserted itself as a medium of mass effect, with hardly any media-critical and technology-critical artistic projects questioning it. How do artists interested in television, in both its pop culture image productions and its passive consumption experience this influential ”dowager”? What possibilities does it hold as a venue of politics?

”Forbidden Love: Art in the wake of television camp” examines television as a reactive, open process, as a space of battling for attention, (self-) presentation and affect that popularises the discourse on identity, gender and difference. As a powerful construction, the derived images define the theme of the exhibition, which plays with a media-tised production process and lures us out of our accustomed attitude as viewers.

The exhibits start out from television as an apparatus of image production and go on to explore the potentials of a symbolic transfer of common codes and meanings inherent in the genres and engage in specific metaphorical interpretations by investigating current image productions and looking for possibilities of a different kind of television.

Kuratorin / Kurator: Sandro Droschl
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: BitteBitteJaJa
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Christoph Draeger
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Reynold Reynolds
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Omer Fast
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Marlene Haring
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Sanja Ivekovic
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Zuzanna Janin
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Judith Hopf
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Stephan Geene
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Marko Lulic
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Frédéric Moser
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Philippe Schwinger
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Susanne Schuda
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Heimo Zobernig