Exhibitions

For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon

Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová ; 
Sin Kabeza Productions (Cheto Castellano & Lissette Olivares) ; 
Tamás Kaszás (featuring Anikó Loránt as ex-artists' collective) ; 
Diana Lelonek ; 
Alicja Rogalska ; 
Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor ; 
Monika Zawadzki
12.10.2017 - 14.01.2018
  • The photo shows the facade of the Edith Russ House with the banner of the exhibition For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the entrance area of the Edith Russ House during the ehibition For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the upper floor of the Edith Russ House with the Exhibition view For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    Exhibition view For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the upper floor of the Edith Russ House with the artwork by Monika Zawadzki: Minuet with Cows. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    Monika Zawadzki: Minuet with Cows. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the upper floor of the Edith Russ House with the artwork by Monika Zawadzki: Towel, Sheet. No 2. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    Monika Zawadzki: Towel, Sheet. No 2. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the upper floor of the Edith Russ House with the Exhibition view For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    Exhibition view For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the upper floor of the Edith Russ House with the artwork by Tamás Kaszás & Anikó Loránt as ex-artists' collective: Lost Wisdom. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    Tamás Kaszás & Anikó Loránt as ex-artists' collective: Lost Wisdom. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • [Translate to Englisch:] Das Foto zeigt das Untergeschoss des Edith-Russ-Hauses mit der Ausstellungsansicht Denn hinter diesem Horizont liegt ein weiterer Horizont. Foto © Edith-Russ-Haus
    [Translate to Englisch:] Ausstellungsansicht Denn hinter diesem Horizont liegt ein weiterer Horizont. Foto © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the upper floor of the Edith Russ House with the artwork by Monika Zawadzki. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    Monika Zawadzki. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the upper floor of the Edith Russ House with the artwork by Monika Zawadzki: Askew Heads. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    Monika Zawadzki: Askew Heads. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the upper floor of the Edith Russ House with the artwork by Monika Zawadzki: Cyber Mother, Cyber Son (Sorrow). Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    Monika Zawadzki: Cyber Mother, Cyber Son (Sorrow). Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the upper floor of the Edith Russ House with the Exhibition view For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the upper floor of the Edith Russ House with the Exhibition view For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the basement of the Edith Russ House with the Exhibition view For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    Exhibition view For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the upper floor of the Edith Russ House with the Exhibition view For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the upper floor of the Edith Russ House with the Exhibition view For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the upper floor of the Edith Russ House with the Exhibition view For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the basement of the Edith Russ House with the Exhibition view For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the basement of the Edith Russ House with the Exhibition view For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • Das Foto zeigt das Untergeschoss des Edith-Russ-Hauses mit der Ausstellungsansicht For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the basement of the Edith Russ House with the Exhibition view For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    Exhibition view For Beyond that Horizon Lies Another Horizon. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the basement of the Edith Russ House with the artwork by Diana Lelonek: The Center for the Living Things. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    Diana Lelonek: The Center for the Living Things. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the basement of the Edith Russ House with the artwork by Alicja Rogalska: The Ones Who Walk Away. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    Alicja Rogalska: The Ones Who Walk Away. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
  • The photo shows the basement of the Edith Russ House with the artwork by Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor: The Order of Things. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
    Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor: The Order of Things. Photo © Edith-Russ-Haus
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The exhibition For beyond that horizon lies another horizon* is a proposal to imagine emergent horizons for the Earth household of the future. It is inhabited temporarily by works of artists exploring possible modes of survival, cooperation, and care for a myriad of communities connected by the complex web of life.

The point of departure for this messy assembly is an attempt to change the world-ecological system based on the concept of unlimited economic growth. The artworks in the exhibition resonate with collective forces working on overcoming the paralysis of imagination related to this model’s inherent lack of consideration for socio-environmental costs and cycles. In particular, they correspond with disputes related to redesigning human organizations in ways that would end the ongoing creation and appropriation of what Jason W. Moore calls “cheap nature”: cheap labor power, cheap energy, cheap food, and cheap raw materials. Cheap nature functions in the exhibition as a metaphor for processes of extracting surplus value from the web of life and putting human and extra-human natures to unpaid or low-paid work.

Trying to look critically at and beyond these toxic conditions of (re)production, the artists do not ground their practice in the quest for new, ideal, and utopian sites and ideas. They rather focus modestly on careful connecting, recycling, and thereby transforming a variety of already available tools, embodied knowledges, and resources, among which the experience of care work is particularly valuable. They approach complexity and interdependence of emergent patterns of environment-making by using different scales of perception and relating seemingly disparate fields of competence. While some explore and translate biomimicry and states of “becoming-animal, becoming-earth and becoming-machine,” others draw on legacies of indigenous habitats or the autonomous survival practices of global civil society. Against this backdrop emerge interconnected questions related to food production, waste, money, community, and whether the value of work can be reinvented.

Yet the common matter of concern for this constellation of artworks is care work. What if caregiving were liberated from patriarchy and the economy of “cheap nature”? Could it be done collectively for human and non-human communities in an expanded, decolonized household?

*The title is a quote from the poem Celebrating our Freedom by Chirikure Chirikure, performed in the film The Order of Things by Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor.

Curated by Joanna Sokołowska. The exhibition was also shown later in the Muzeum Sztuki, Łodz.

    FOR BEYOND THAT HORIZON LIES ANOTHER HORIZON Artist Talk with Joanna Sokołowska & Monika Zawadzki

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Funded by

Stiftung für Deutsch-Polnische Zusammenarbeit
Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur
Kulturstiftung der Öffentlichen Oldenburg