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B. Holub, J. Qu, C. Cabanas, E. Anosova:
"Urgent Perspectives #3";
Group exhibition; organised by: KulturKontakt Austria, curator: B. Holub; Aa collections gallery, 2019-04-25 - 2019-05-04.

Urgent Perspectives takes place at changing exhibition venues in Vienna as part of the AIR Mentoring Program of the Federal Chancellery / KulturKontakt Austria and uses existing networks and resources. After Urgent Perspectives #1 (2017) in the project space Viktor Bucher, Urgent Perspectives #2 (2018) at the alternative art fair PARALLEL VIENNA, Urgent Perspectives #3 2019 will be held in Aa collections in the 15th district. The artist run gallery is located in a former venue of a social housing, which opens a new context for "Urgent Perspectives".
The work of Elena Anosova, Carla Cabanas and Jianan Qu, in particular, discusses the role that the media play in our time in various ways. Elena Anosova refers to Marshall McLuhan, who in 1964 coined in "Understanding Media" the distinction between "hot media" (which do not actively involve the viewer, e.g. radio and film) and "cool media" (in which the viewer can intervene). More than half a century later, the "cool media" via social media such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have become a compulsion to permanent communication and self-expression, on the basis of which the "status" is measured by the "friends"' community and in society. With short and often demagogic messages, social media now have a greater impact than conventional media, which feel obliged to a differentiated reporting and substantiated information content due to research.

How the individual interacts with the intricate web of informational content, and what responsibility the individual assumes for the community, is reflected in the works in the ever-renewed tension between privacy and intimacy (Carla Cabanas), the exposure of self (Jianan Qu) and self-reflection (Elena Anosova). Urgent Perspectives #3 also refers to the original function of the exhibition space on a parallel level, which was an important infrastructure for the social housing it belongs to and is now being given a new role by being used as a gallery.

urgent perspectives, media discourse, urban-societal issues, public space, social housing

https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_280753.pdf