Imaginary Archive: Graz
Gregory Sholette and collaborators (see below)
<rotor> Contemporary Art Space
Graz, Austria
September 21 – November 23, 2013
Synopsis:
Imagine yourself uncovering a cache of materials and documents that record a past whose future never arrived? Imaginary Archive Graz is just such a repository: printed materials, objects, and narratives that imagine an alternative history, which nevertheless sheds a surprisingly strong light on concrete realities. New York based artist Gregory Sholette invited participants from Galway, Ireland, Wellington, New Zealand, as well as Graz, Austria, The United States, and other countries around the globe to produce documents about a past whose future never arrived. Thus Imaginary Archive is made up of under-represented, unknown, invisible, dreaded and/or hoped-for “historical” materials that point to multiple ways of interpreting the past, the present, and the future.
Participating artists:
Aaron Burr Society, Agata Craftlove, Alien Abduction Collective (Todd Ayoung, Heather Davis, Kim Asbury, Ulla Hvejsel, and Phoebe Bachman), Austin Ivers, Azra Aksamija, Babis Venetopoulos + John Voyatzopoulos, Ben Geoghegan, Brian Hand, Bryce Galloway & Students, Closed Engagement, Doris Jauk-Hinz, Edda Strobl, Ellen Rothenberg, Eva Taxacher & Karin Ondas, Eva Ursprung, Glen Goldberg, Grant Corbishley, Gregory Sholette, Helmut Kaplan, Jeffrey Skoller, Jeremy Booth, Johannes/zweite Liga für kunst und Kultur, John Hulsey & City Life/Vida Urbana, Josef Fürpaß, Karl Lorac, Malcolm Doidge, Matthew Friday, Matthew F. Greco, Maureen Connor, Markus Wetzel, Maryam Mohammadi , Murray Hewitt, Nanette Yannuzzi, Nayari Castillo, Oliver Ressler, Paul Lamarre & Melisa Wolf: Eida House, Patrik Aarnivaara, Pedro Lasch, REPOhistory, Roger O’Shea, Sarah Farahat, Suchness, Tender & endangered Cow/Horse of Dimness, Tiarnán McDonough, “t.j.”, Thom Donovan, Trust Art, Yevgeniy Fiks, Zoe Beloff (Previous Imaginary Archive participants include: Alan Hughes Niall Moore, Paul Maye, Dave Callen, Lee Harrop , Simon Fleming).
View the archive here
