Calendar

Participating artists:
aLifveForms (cared for by J.P. Raether), Cru Encarnação, Jeroen Jacobs, KAYA (mit N.O. Madski), Henrik Olesen, Paul Thek, Wu Tsang u.a.
Kuratorinnen: Kathrin Busch, Ilse Lafer

opening hours:
aktuell nur für HGB-Angehörige geöffnet: Di–Sa 14:00–17:00 Uhr sowie nach Vereinbarung/ and by appointment (galerie@hgb-leipzig.de)

Venue:
HGB gallery
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig
www.hgb-leipzig.de/galerie
instagram.com/hgbgallery

The gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig is realizing an exhibition project dedicated to new forms of sensibility and corporeality in the arts. Drawing on philosophical and feminist discourses, the exhibition distinguishes between body and flesh in order to draw attention to the current modes of passivation/ activation of flesh. This addresses not only the increasing digitalization of life or the increased use of psychotropic drugs, but also all forms of targeted affection to which individuals are exposed today. This radical being exposed is not freely chosen, on the contrary: according to Paul B. Preciado, it is subject to the regime of a „patriarchal-colonial capitalism“ that regulates processes of subjectivation in such a way that individual desire adapts to processes of capital production and the heterosexual, colonial reproduction of life. This articulates a hegemonic aesthetic that limits the field of perception and holds sensitivity and individual desire captive.
But how does art deal with this form of the affect-controlled production of society, and how does it succeed in intervening in this "new politics of affection"? Among other things, it does so by differentiating between body and flesh, and by conceiving as flesh that which transcends the body: in the form of rampant bulges, transgressions with uncertain outcomes, as well as by creating new precarious pluralities. The artists in the exhibition show how conceptually different such a practice of "affect deregulation" through affection can be. Their unifying element is the question of the social shaping of a sensibility that is no longer subject-centered.

The exhibition will be contextualized by a workshop by Kathrin Busch and Ilse Lafer with guests (note: the date on 19-21.11.20 has unfortunately had to be postponed due to the corona protection measures at the HGB. If you are interested please write to: galerie@hgb-leipzig.de).

A more extensive version of the exhibition was shown at nGbK Berlin from 12.09. to 01.11.2020.