Gernot Wieland’s diagrams illustrate some of the basic concepts of his lecture performance, held as part of steirischer herbst’s Opening Extravaganza. Both here and there, he examines the Austrian predilection for culinary delights and easy living as an expression of repressed feelings of guilt, hate, and powerlessness. One of his heroes is the prophet Jonah. In Wieland’s lecture, he appears as a Monty Pythonesque figure, ridiculous through and through. In many ways, he resembles a child oppressed by his mother and father who might become a serial killer out of frustration, as the first diagram shows. The second diagram elaborates this basic structure into a broader field of repression—sequences which generate the desires and symbolisms that define reality.

Translation German to English: Gernot Wieland
Proofreading: Maxwell Stephens

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https://2019.steirischerherbst.at/en/program/artists/443/gernot-wieland