Jonathan Meese

DER 1. BABYSOLDAT DER DIKTATUR DER KUNST, ZUSTANDMEESE, STEHT IMMER STRAMM (STRAMMMMEESEL STRULLERT: DEMORKATISIERT MI NIT ON)

The interdisciplinary performance programme at Kunsthalle Krems invites visitors to a contemplation on current identity constructions, demasking the economic and political actions of the individual in the collective. We take a look behind the scenes of our globalised present and identify the selection processes of the modern world. If the laws of the economy determine the cartography of our world order, then the liberation of the economic processes generates the disintegration of our established value systems, resulting in immanent cultural uprooting. There’s no space anymore in the boat to Lampedusa!
German performance artist Jonathan Meese fuses the inevitable dialectics of history, economy and society into his provocative installations, lectures and manifestos. With his sociographic eye for the failings of cultures, he contrasts the idea of a societal ideal landscape with a utopian conception of a “dictatorship of the arts”. As part of a powerfully eloquent lecture, Meese will be directing his call for the total mobilisation of the arts also at the audience at the donaufestival, as the following teaser illustrates:
ART IS NOT ESOTERICS AND ART IS NOT HUMAN ANARCHY: ART IS THE ONLY FORM OF DOMINION OF THE FUTURE, great, great, great ... so THE ARTS MUST ASSUME POWER

www.cfa-berlin.com/exhibitions/artist/jonathan_meese

In cooperation with Kunsthalle Krems.
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