BitterWeber:
LIVE LIKE THIS!
Infos
Opening
30. 9. 2005, 7 pm
Duration
1.10.2005 – 18. 11. 2005
As part of the opening the artists will be awarded the “Würdigungspreis für Fotografie des Bundeskanzleramtes 2005”.
Opening speech:
Susanne Neuburger, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
no.tour.no
Did that building do that to you?
Or did you do that to that building?
Artist talk with the curater
22. 10. 2005, 6 pm
BitterWeber
LIVE LIKE THIS!
Co-production steirischer herbst 2005
The exhibition will be shown at Plattform, Berlin, in April / May 2006.
SABINE BITTER, HELMUT WEBER, aus: Live Like This!, 2000.
Intro
LIVE LIKE THIS! traces Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber’s long-term engagement with the processes restructuring the city into this uneven landscape of neoliberal spaces, national spaces, and self-organized communities. Launched from multiple geographic scales, these processes are not new but have followed a jagged path toward market discipline and the shift to the city as a monochromatic site of consumptive practices and real-estate opportunities flanked by austerity programs and social exclusion for the under-consumers. This shift, incomplete and in process as it is, has been built on a long process of erosions, exclusions, dispossessions, and reconfigurings of the urban landscape that has gone hand in hand with the global neoliberalizing of production sites, the emergence of the new non-places (such as Free Trade Zones and Guantánamo-type
gulags) and a general ideology of the privatization of public goods set in opposition to forms of collectivity. While not uniform in its impact on cities, the urbanization of neoliberalism has made cities the “geographic targets and institutional laboratories” of neoliberalization.
“LIVE LIKE THIS!” creates a space for engaging with contemporary urban spaces as social environment and as political discourse. At the same time, it also creates a space for debating contemporary image politics as a cluster of visual practices for organising society and constructing the public sphere and history. As a result, the relationships between
architecture, visuality and representation, mediatisation, politics and identity are reallocated in the exhibition space.
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BitterWeber: LIVE LIKE THIS!
LIVE LIKE THIS! traces Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber’s long-term engagement with the processes restructuring the city into this uneven landscape of neoliberal spaces, national spaces, and self-organized communities. Launched from multiple geographic scales, these processes are not new but have followed a jagged path toward market discipline and the shift to the city as a monochromatic site of consumptive practices and real-estate opportunities flanked by austerity programs and social exclusion for the under-consumers. This shift, incomplete and in process as it is, has been built on a long process of erosions, exclusions, dispossessions, and reconfigurings of the urban landscape that has gone hand in hand with the global neoliberalizing of production sites, the emergence of the new non-places (such as Free Trade Zones and Guantánamo-type
gulags) and a general ideology of the privatization of public goods set in opposition to forms of collectivity. While not uniform in its impact on cities, the urbanization of neoliberalism has made cities the “geographic targets and institutional laboratories” of neoliberalization.
“LIVE LIKE THIS!” creates a space for engaging with contemporary urban spaces as social environment and as political discourse. At the same time, it also creates a space for debating contemporary image politics as a cluster of visual practices for organising society and constructing the public sphere and history. As a result, the relationships between
architecture, visuality and representation, mediatisation, politics and identity are reallocated in the exhibition space.
The project is realised in cooperation with steirischer herbst 2005.
As part of the opening the artists will be awarded the “Würdigungspreis für Fotografie des Bundeskanzleramtes 2005”.
The exhibition will be shown at Plattform, Berlin, in April / May 2006.
With kind support of Eternit company.
To accompany the exhibition there will be published a comprehensive publication
featuring an introduction by Reinhard Braun, texts by Catherine David, Jeff Derksen
and Neil Smith, as well as an artists’ talk with Bik Van der Pol, Ken Lum, Andrea
Geyer, Jayce Salloum, Marina Gržinić, David Thorne and Julia Meltzer (The
Speculative Archive).
Edited by Reinhard Braun, Edition Camera Austria, Graz 2005.
196 pages, Germ. / Engl., 100 colour and 30 b/w plates.
EUR 27,00
Installation Views
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BitterWeber LIVE LIKE THIS!
Camera Austria 2005
Photo: Seiichi Furuya -
BitterWeber LIVE LIKE THIS!
Camera Austria 2005
Photo: Seiichi Furuya -
BitterWeber LIVE LIKE THIS!
Camera Austria 2005
Photo: Seiichi Furuya -
Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber, aus / from: Bronzeville, 2005.
Courtesy: Camera Austria, Graz -
Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber, aus / from: Bronzeville, 2005. Courtesy: Camera Austria, Graz.
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BitterWeber LIVE LIKE THIS!
Camera Austria 2005
Photo: Seiichi Furuya -
BitterWeber LIVE LIKE THIS!
Camera Austria 2005
Photo: Seiichi Furuya -
BitterWeber LIVE LIKE THIS!
Camera Austria 2005
Photo: Seiichi Furuya -
Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber, aus / from: "Super Citizens", 2003 / 2004.
Courtesy: Camera Austria, Graz. -
Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber, aus / from: "Super Citizens", 2003 / 2004.
Courtesy: Camera Austria, Graz. -
BitterWeber LIVE LIKE THIS!
Camera Austria 2005
Photo: Seiichi Furuya -
Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber, aus / from: Live like this!, 2001.
Courtesy: Camera Austria, Graz. -
BitterWeber LIVE LIKE THIS!
Camera Austria 2005
Photo: Seiichi Furuya -
BitterWeber LIVE LIKE THIS!
Camera Austria 2005
Photo: Seiichi Furuya -
BitterWeber LIVE LIKE THIS!
Camera Austria 2005
Photo: Seiichi Furuya -
BitterWeber LIVE LIKE THIS!
Camera Austria 2005
Photo: Seiichi Furuya -
BitterWeber LIVE LIKE THIS!
Camera Austria 2005
Photo: Seiichi Furuya -
BitterWeber LIVE LIKE THIS!
Camera Austria 2005
Photo: Seiichi Furuya -
Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber, aus / from: "Place It", 2000.
Courtesy: Camera Austria, Graz. -
Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber, aus / from: "Place It", 2000.
Courtesy: Camera Austria, Graz. -
BitterWeber LIVE LIKE THIS!
Camera Austria 2005
Photo: Seiichi Furuya
Opening & Award Ceremony
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Eröffnung & Preisverleihung / Opening & Award Ceremony
30. 9. 2005
Camera Austria 2005 -
Eröffnung & Preisverleihung / Opening & Award Ceremony
30. 9. 2005
Camera Austria 2005 -
Eröffnung & Preisverleihung / Opening & Award Ceremony
30. 9. 2005
Camera Austria 2005 -
Eröffnung & Preisverleihung / Opening & Award Ceremony
30. 9. 2005
Camera Austria 2005 -
Eröffnung & Preisverleihung / Opening & Award Ceremony
30. 9. 2005
Camera Austria 2005 -
Eröffnung & Preisverleihung / Opening & Award Ceremony
30. 9. 2005
Camera Austria 2005 -
Eröffnung & Preisverleihung / Opening & Award Ceremony
30. 9. 2005
Camera Austria 2005 -
Eröffnung & Preisverleihung / Opening & Award Ceremony
30. 9. 2005
Camera Austria 2005 -
Eröffnung & Preisverleihung / Opening & Award Ceremony
30. 9. 2005
Camera Austria 2005 -
Eröffnung & Preisverleihung / Opening & Award Ceremony
30. 9. 2005
Camera Austria 2005 -
Eröffnung & Preisverleihung / Opening & Award Ceremony
30. 9. 2005
Camera Austria 2005 -
Eröffnung & Preisverleihung / Opening & Award Ceremony
30. 9. 2005
Camera Austria 2005 -
Eröffnung & Preisverleihung / Opening & Award Ceremony
30. 9. 2005
Camera Austria 2005