IT'S MY HAIR AND I CAN DO WHAT I WANT WITH IT
Opening Friday, 28 February 2014, 6pm
1 March - 19 April 2014
With Lisa Holzer, Liz Magic Laser, Renzo Martens,
Pilvi Takala, Britta Thie and Jordan Wolfson
Curated together with Kirsa Geiser
'Under the hypnotic grimaces of official pacification, a war is being waged. A war that can no longer be called simply economic, social, or humanitarian, because it is total. And though each of us senses that our existence has become a battlefield where neuroses, phobias, somatizations, depression, and anguish are but a kind of defeated retreat, no one can grasp the trajectory of the battle or understand what's at stake in it. Paradoxically, it's because of the total character of this war - total in its means no less than in its ends - that it could be invisible in the first place.
To open force the empire prefers underhanded methods, chronic prevention, and the spread of molecules of constraint through everyday life. Its internal (endo) cop-ization clearly relays the general cop-ization, as individual self-control does social control. The new police are imperceptible because they're omnipresent.'
Exhibition title and text are citations from:
Tiqqun, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, 1999/2006.
Opening Friday, 28 February 2014, 6pm
1 March - 19 April 2014
With Lisa Holzer, Liz Magic Laser, Renzo Martens,
Pilvi Takala, Britta Thie and Jordan Wolfson
Curated together with Kirsa Geiser
'Under the hypnotic grimaces of official pacification, a war is being waged. A war that can no longer be called simply economic, social, or humanitarian, because it is total. And though each of us senses that our existence has become a battlefield where neuroses, phobias, somatizations, depression, and anguish are but a kind of defeated retreat, no one can grasp the trajectory of the battle or understand what's at stake in it. Paradoxically, it's because of the total character of this war - total in its means no less than in its ends - that it could be invisible in the first place.
To open force the empire prefers underhanded methods, chronic prevention, and the spread of molecules of constraint through everyday life. Its internal (endo) cop-ization clearly relays the general cop-ization, as individual self-control does social control. The new police are imperceptible because they're omnipresent.'
Exhibition title and text are citations from:
Tiqqun, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, 1999/2006.
Lisa Holzer, Liz Magic Laser, Renzo Martens, Pilvi Takala, Britta Thie, Jordan Wolfson, Kirsa Geiser, Galerie Kamm, Berlin
http://www.galeriekamm.de/en/exhibitions/past/2014/its-my-hair-and-i-can-do-what-i-want-with-it.html