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Diploma Exhibition We Must Be Mistaken
Participating artists:
Johanna Maj Schmidt & Charlotte Ruppert
Venue:
Galerie KUB
Kantstr. 18
04275 Leipzig
We Must Be Mistaken is a performative film project on echo chambers/filter bubbles in online spheres. The work delineates two contradicting lifeworlds: While educated middle-class feminists are longing for a world without inequalities, two resentful incels („involuntary celibates“ – men, who, supposedly, stand no chance with regards to women due to their biological features and hold misogynist views) are sharing memes in defense of the “freedom of speech” and their patriarchal power position. Two intellectual characters, who, initially, had hoped for the potential of digitalisation to bring people together, try to intervene in both worlds. Eventually, they amplify the sentiments they find there.
The work’s conceptual starting point is Johanna Maj Schmidt’s research, who is writing her PhD in the graduate school “Rightwing populism – Authoritarian Developments, Far-Right Discourses, and Democratic Responses” about the question how the Heroic is represented in far-right internet memes.
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Opening: 5:00 pm
Galerie KUB
05.–27.02.2022
In Leipzig
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