"A Part of No-Part: Parallelisms Between Then and Now" Exhibition
The Chelsea Art Museum
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This exhibition explores totalitarian and post-totalitarian contemporary art from Poland, Czech Republic, Croatia, and New York. The videos and installations are gathered around the idea that history can only be represented through some form of distortion, detour, or absurdity that enables a distancing from the represented reality, so that meaning can be redefined and rearticulated. Jacques Rancière queries: “Are some things unrepresentable?” and responds, “The invention of actions is both a boundary and a passage between two things: the events, at once possible and incredible, which tragedy links; and the recognizable and shareable feelings, volitions and conflicts of will that it offers the spectator.” 1 Political conflict is the tension between a dominant social structure, in which each part has its place, and ‘a part of no-part,’ which stands for a human mass that destabilizes the functional order of things.
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Schedule
from May 07, 2010 to June 19, 2010