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discord. sabotage of realities is being organized within the framework of the Week of Visual Arts in Hamburg. It will be shown in the Kunstverein and the Kunsthaus of this city from the 30th of November, 1996 to the 19th of January, 1997. The title is theme and strategy of an exhibition and action art project that intends to bring together a wide variety of different artistic positions of the Nineties.
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The origin of the concept lies in the "Peace Biennale", which was initiated by Robert Filliou and realized by René Block in 1985 as a project of the Week of Visual Arts and shown in the Kunstverein and the Kunsthaus in Hamburg. The central motto of this show was "to show peace more excitingly than war".
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Filliou's concept, which had the goal of forming a world-wide artistic network for "peace-forming" art strategies, prompted a re-thinking and re-formulating of the questions originally raised. A new call for participation in a parallel project was initiated. However, utopian and moral expectations no longer stand in the foreground of the art-scape. Instead, art must test its ability to visualize increasingly unpeaceful realities. It should intervene in existing structures, and expose mistaken handlings of private, social and political realities so that they can be experienced in a suggestive or reflexive way.
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Divided into six thematic zones (and mixtures of zones) control, news services, everyday life, border politics, state machineries, science ficion and economy the exhibition discord. sabotage of realities will reflect upon themes central to society's experience of reality as mirrored by art. A "heterotope" of art reality should come into being - a world parallel to the world, in which artworks are resocialized and made palpable in their critical and subversive potential. It is a world of art in which the inconspicious contents, definitions and attributions of our pluralistic realities are unveiled, doubled or distorted.
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