workshop/exhibition
a/o-holics self help groups
Photo © Julian Siffert
Hopeaholics,
Surplusaholics,
Topoholics,
Conspiraholics
Oppressive, Out of reach, Anonymous, Amnesiac.
When thinking about addiction in pathological terms, one rapidly thinks of its pharmacological responses: cures, support groups, abstinence. But, what is it that we can be -aholic or -oholic of? Is it really just sugar, golf, work, drugs?What if we repurpose this marker to gain a critical point of view on other aspects we have an equally compulsive and disorderly relation to?
In the frame of the A-/O-holics workshop we would like to think of addiction as markers of sociological, political and even philosophical standpoints and tendencies. We will employ technics and methods borrowed from popular addiction treatments like support groups and 12 steps and 12 traditions programs) to deal with 4 concepts we want to suffix the -a-oholic marker to: Hope, Topology, Surplus and Conspiracy. In the workshop we will gather Hope’aholics, Topo’holics, Surplus’ aholics & Conspire’ aholics in working groups for the -a/-oholics club, that will be active in the shopping mall of Center Skanderija Sarajevo. Within this gathering, we will not only work on our addictions, but also on collective art pieces that will be presented in the context of the exhibition Giddy Flames at Collegium Artisticum on the day after.
organized by Janina Weißengruber and Daniel Hüttler
In the frame of the exhibition Giddy Flames
curated by Teuta Jonuzi & Julian Siffert
31.8. – 22.9.24
Collegium Artisticum, Centar Skenderija Sarajevo
Participating artists:
AdO-Aptive (Janina Weißengruber and Daniel Hüttler), Teuta Jonuzi, Sebastian Koeck, Lucille Leger, Ana Likar, Fritjof Krabbe Nørretranders, Julian Siffert, Lisa Sifkovits, Kai Philip Trausenegger, Helen Weber, Lulzim Zeqiri
Exhibition text:
Dim light infuses the space with a sense of liminality. The exhibition Giddy Flames inhabits an in-between, hovering between the surface and the underground, day and night, wakefulness and sleep. As the eyes adjust to the scene, details slowly emerge from the shadows. Some works radiate their own light, while others remain hidden in the creaks and corners. Tip-toeing on the edge of darkness and light, one navigates through pieces, that invite thoughts of ghosts and will-o’-wisps in dreams and fairytales, within the promises of a long night out and the depths of caves and archives.
Supported by
BMKÖS, Bildrecht, Austrian Cultural Forum Sarajevo, Ku(rz)nsthalle, Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Sarajevo and Association of Fine Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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