Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Währinger Straße 59, 2nd Staircase, 1st Floor, 1090 Wien

19 January - 3 March 2012. Opening on 18 January, 19h.

Works in the Exhibition

“Schmale, Scheirl, Knebl Werke” (Toni Schmale, Hans Scheirl & Jakob Lena Knebl) (AT)

Toni Schmale, Hans Scheirl and Jakob Lena Knebl, all living and working in Vienna, have collaborated on a variety of projects before, and in autumn 2011 got together as "Schmale, Scheirl, Knebl Werke" to work more regularly in collaboration. Their participation in Reality Manifestos is at the same time the inauguration of the group's work. If the cinema machine is an important component that has given a push to the image economy in cognitive capitalism, how can we intensify a photonegative process of becoming-together against control? For "the collective pursuit of pleasure is always in the forefront – revolution is a desiring machine!" (Lazzarato) The joy of life, the joy of work – what could that work be that does not look like work, in which we would boldly reconfigure the gender, body work? It is a question of play. What is this scenario? What are these transversal abstract figurations? A schizophrenic experimentation with social labor, producing a collective heterogeneous voice of the cinematic persona, producing a new utterance: we have always been more than one, auto-affections of the monstrous child.

Untitled (2012)

Installation, diverse materials

WE JOIN THE GAME.
WE PLAY “GROUP.”
WE ACT UP AS A GROUP PLAY.
WE GROUP THE GAMES. MATERIAL.
THE WORK IS THE LOGO. PHOTO.
THE WORK STANDS UP. WORKSHOP.
WORKSHOP GROUP SEX.
6 WORKSHOPS PLAY GROUP PLAY.
THE WORK.

(SSKW)

Untitled (2012)

Installation, diverse materials

Courtesy the artists