DIVUS LONDON: AutopsiA – Thanatopolis | at The Horse Hospital

AutopsiA – Thanatopolis | at The Horse Hospital

18.11.2016 19:00 - 26.11.2016

DIVUS LONDON | en

THE HORSE HOSPITAL: Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD

Autopsia is language is image is sound. Autopsia is a tombstone on the grave of time. Autopsia is archaeology. The discourse of the beginning and about the beginning. At the beginning is Death.

The mysterious project AutopsiA had its genesis in the alternative London culture of the late 1970s. At the start of the 1980s these London influences (Punk, early Industrial, radical conceptual art and more) were brought back to provincial Yugoslavia and blended with local cultural tendencies and histories, as well as other, unexpected sources such as post-structuralist philosophy and alchemy. Always remaining in the shadows, AutopsiA operated from an historic provincial town, sending out cryptic communications in the form of graphics, cassettes, and even early computer art. Over the years AutopsiA’s practice grew to include installation, performance and film work, all marked by its distinctive combination of technological and mystical sources. AutopsiA (in)famously and repeatedly announced that “20th Century is Dead” and the tragic and mythomaniacal quality of the work it produced in the late 1980s, bore witness to the death of modernity in Yugoslavia and its fall into pre-modern darkness.

Following the outbreak of war in Yugoslavia, AutopsiA relocated to Prague, where it has remained since, drawing fresh inspiration from the city’s rich esoteric histories. During the 1990s a series of complex and richly orchestrated music releases were issued, gaining great respect among those exposed to them. In recent years it has returned to the galleries and to live performances, appearing in Leipzig, Prague, Novi Sad, Belgrade and Split.

40 years after the outbreak of Punk, London is again at a moment of crisis, with many experiencing speculation-driven urban‘renewal’ as the inexorable transmission of a living cultural death. So it is fitting that 35 years after its birth, AutopsiA should bring its complex and thought-provoking work to London for the first time. Placed in the unique context of the Horse Hospital, its shadowy, spectral, multi-layered work will act as an admonitory memento mori and a cryptic illumination of the shadow side of the vain, death-marked metropolis.

Presented in association with Divus and the Czech Centre London, the exhibition will present films, an introductory lecture, music and graphics, including specially commissioned work in which AutopsiA brings its aesthetic to bear on London. A special exhibition publication featuring an essay by Alexei Monroe and Autopsia works will also be available.

Was heisst Autopsia? Art? Theoria? Framing? Projection? Gaze?
Autopsia is language is image is sound.
Autopsia is a tombstone on the grave of time.
Autopsia is archaeology. The discourse of the beginning and about the beginning.
At the beginning is Death.

Thr Horse Hospital
AutopsiA
AutopsiA in Umelec Magazine

In collaboration with Czech Centre London. Supported by TECHO.

18.11.2016 19:00 - 26.11.2016

Als e-mail senden Ausdrucken

Kommentar

Der Artikel ist bisher nicht kommentiert worden

Neuen Kommentar einfügen

3 krát 5
Jméno		Email

Empfohlene Artikel

	No Future For Censorship
	Author dreaming of a future without censorship we have never got rid of. It seems, that people don‘t care while it grows stronger again.

	Tunelling Culture II

	Afrikanische Vampire im Zeitalter der Globalisierung
	"In Kamerun wimmelt es von Gerüchten über Zombie-Arbeiter, die sich auf unsichtbaren Plantagen in obskurer Nachtschicht-Ökonomie plagen."

Wenn man sich gut orientiert, findet man heraus, dass man jeden Monat und vielleicht jede Woche die Chance hat, Geld für sein Kulturprojekt zu bekommen. Erfolgreiche Antragsteller haben genug Geld, durchschnittlich so viel, dass sie Ruhe geben, und die Erfolglosen werden von der Chance in Schach gehalten. Ganz natürlich sind also Agenturen nur mit dem Ziel entstanden, diese Fonds zu beantragen…

Kalender

Ganzes Verzeichnis öffnen

grim cabaret

Öffnen

DIVUS LIVE (blog)

Ganzes Verzeichnis öffnen

04.02.2020 10:17

Slavka Kneppo:

Pověsti o těžkých časech na trhu s uměním jsou opět velmi přehnané...

Letošní 50. ročník Art Basel přilákal celkem 93 000 návštěvníků a sběratelů z 80 zemí světa. 290 prémiových galerií představilo umělecká díla od počátku 20. století až po současnost. Hlavní sektor přehlídky, tradičně v prvním patře výstavního prostoru, představil 232 předních galerií z celého světa nabízející umění nejvyšší kvality. Veletrh ukázal vzestupný trend prodeje prostřednictvím galerií jak soukromým sbírkám, tak i institucím. Kromě hlavního veletrhu stály za návštěvu i ty přidružené: Volta, Liste a Photo Basel, k tomu doprovodné programy a výstavy v místních institucích, které kvalitou daleko přesahují hranice města tj. Kunsthalle Basel, Kunstmuseum, Tinguely muzeum nebo Fondation Beyeler.

Star Wars, I.

01.01.2000 | Öffnen

Empfohlenes Buch

Öffnen

Alexei Monroe: Autopsia - Thanatopolis

Die neuesten Artikel in DIVUS

Ganzes Verzeichnis öffnen

DIVUS INTERNATIONAL: Divus at Unearthing the Music in Lisbon

DIVUS LONDON: My Itinerary Has Been Monotonous for Quite a While

DIVUS LONDON: Zinovy Zinik: On Sound Monsters

Rubriken, die interessieren

Ganzes Verzeichnis öffnen

Zitat des Tages Der Herausgeber haftet nicht für psychische und physische Zustände, die nach Lesen des Zitats auftreten können.
“	Die Begierde hält niemals ihre Versprechen.