FRI 04.03.: Exhibition Opening: “Dump Time. For a Practice of Horizontality”

Shedhalle / Events / March 2011 / Friday March 4, 7 pm

Stefan Panhans: If A Store Clerk Gave Me Too Much Change, 2009

Dump Time. For a Practice of Horizontality
Opening: Friday 4 March 2011, 7pm

Curated by Anke Hoffmann and Yvonne Volkart

With this group exhibition project, we want to think about these unproductive, senseless, and mad dimensions of sleep and their effects on our daily life. The sleeping ego cannot be controlled. Thus, we say, sleep contains recalcitrant, and critical moments. It was these critical, political and even revolutionary dimensions of sleep and dream, which were important for the surrealists, and their poetics of sleeping and dreaming. Walter Benjamin precisely recognised and described this deeply critical aspect of the surrealistic artistic practises and their political ideologies.