only revolutions

only revolutions
curated by Seda Pesen

with Anne De Boer, Felix Breidenbach, Frederik E. & Jakob Sjøberg, Alexander Föllenz, Thomas Geiger, Maarten Van Roy, Tristan Stevens, Morgaine Schäfer, Eugen Wist

2017 July 13 – August 27

The exhibition title „only revolutions“ is taken from the eponymous book by Mark Z. Danielewski. The book tells a playful story about two sixteen-year-old teenagers and their different views on their relationship, parallel displaying 100 years of american history. If you turn the book upside down and swing it around every eight pages, one can alternate the monologues of its two narrators. Throughout those monologues Danielewski presents different sized panels with historical, poetical, enzyclopaedic etc. texts. The exhibition has the attempt to adapt the formal style of the story in a more metaphorical than precise way. The substantial conception consists of different approaches towards narrative structures within itself, thinking about popular antithesis’s as privacy and togetherness, fiction and reality etc. The assemblage of the positions should function like brains in vats, emerging an own narrative structure that offers different, partly completely contrary thoughts, the positions can encounter each other in an either caleidoscopic or dichotomical way.