Galerie im Taxispalais

MAPPING THE BODY

The Body in Contemporary Life

Laia Abril, Selma Alaçam, Natalie Bookchin, Daniele Buetti, Cassils, Mariechen Danz, Michael Fliri, Regina José Galindo, Patrycja German, Floris Kaayk, Jakob Lena Knebl, Eva Kot'átková, Ulrike Lienbacher, Molly Lowe, Lu Yang, Anahita Razmi, Rico Scagliola & Michael Meier, Ryoko Suzuki

The international group exhibition MAPPING THE BODY investigates the far-reaching transformation and manipulation of the human body in contemporary life. In a time of constantly increasing economic and media monopolization, technological progress that promises to transcend physical boundaries, and more and more confrontation between politically and culturally differing notions of sexuality and gender, the body has become a place where conflicts are realized, and the search for identities is reconstituted. The exhibition is devoted to artists who critically question current fields of body politics from various cultural and media perspectives. In research-based, participatory, as well as narrative, fictional and metaphorical works, they reflect upon the influence of the economy and society on the body, gender and sexuality, upon the transformation of body awareness through technology and the internet, the significance of inner and outer constraints as manifest in the body, and also upon the dissolution of corporeal boundaries and clear-cut identities.

Curators: Julia Brennacher, Lena Nievers and Jürgen Tabor

Catalogue
MAPPING THE BODY. Der Körper in der heutigen Lebenswelt / The Body in Contemporary Life
With texts (Ger./Engl.) by Julia Brennacher, Verena Gstir, Lena Nievers, Christina Nägele, Sabine Maria Schmidt and Jürgen Tabor, 160 Seiten, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna 2016