A Question of Evidence
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2008
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2008
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A Question of Evidence presents artists and cultural practitioners from mainly South and Central Asia that engage with or comment upon the difficulty of creating, collecting, and disseminating evidence-based material around issues such as identity politics, democratic change, and the free circulation of forms of expression and (self-)representation. As "narrations of urgency", the works in the exhibition often present multiple perspectives on conflicted or rapidly changing realities, whilst investigating the hybrid nature of the evidence, as being something which is highly constructed, personalized, even possibly fake or poetic, contested or cryptic–its authenticity depending foremost on the credibility of the witness and the narrator.
The exhibition incorporates a variety of artistic and cultural approaches - including moving image, photography, text, archival material, installation, architecture, and performance-that encompass diverse viewpoints on the nature and function of representation in the face of “real” events and socio-political circumstances. The specific artistic contributions also examine the potentials of an aesthetic of the political.
The publication is published on occasion of the exhibtion "A Question of Evidence" at TBA21 in Vienna.
The exhibition incorporates a variety of artistic and cultural approaches - including moving image, photography, text, archival material, installation, architecture, and performance-that encompass diverse viewpoints on the nature and function of representation in the face of “real” events and socio-political circumstances. The specific artistic contributions also examine the potentials of an aesthetic of the political.
The publication is published on occasion of the exhibtion "A Question of Evidence" at TBA21 in Vienna.