Magic circle
By: herausgegeben von Katharina Brandl, Daniela Brugger, Christiane Krejs
Contributors: Kunstraum Niederösterreich (Vienna, Austria)
Publisher: Verlag für moderne Kunst
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Wien
Language: ger
Number of pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9783903228436
Subjects: Witches in art; Exhibitions; Witchcraft in art; Feminism in art; Modern Art; Themes, motives; 20.10 art and society: general
Description: The exhibition Magic Circle investigates current feminist interest in the figure of the witch within contemporary artistic production. Our present time has become an arena for surging disputes about the notion of truth; keywords such as 'post-facticity' and the rise of populist strategies of simplification in the political realm evidence this development. Witch cultures provoked historically dissident forms of knowledge - and thus this interest of late in witches is also conceived as a vehicle to explore resistant knowledge and queer-feminist organisation models and their denunciations at a distance from the respective mainstream. Furthermore, the exhibition views the witch as a kind of hub, a departure point from which to chart different forms of social exclusion mechanisms: In post-Reformation Europe people the collective wanted to be rid of were vilified as a witch - often older women, homeless and poor persons, queer subjects. Exhibition: Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien, Austria (23.03. - 15.05.2018).
Notes: On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, March 23 - May 15, 2018.

Limited edition of 600 copies.

Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel texts in German and English.