A Knot in Throat: Foraging for a Vanishing Present

Co-Curator with Isin Önol

Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna

September 8th - October 9th 2021

Artists: Fatma Bucak, Silvina Der Meguerditchian, SPURSE + FLOURISH LAB + BLOCK ECOLOGY, Stefanie Wuschitz

Event programme
Banu Cennetoğlu, Silvina Der Meguerditchian, Eylem Ertürk, Marianne Hirsch, Banu Karaca, Susan Meiselas, SPURSE + FLOURISH LAB + BLOCK ECOLOGY, Stefanie Wuschitz, Women Mobilizing Memory Book Launch

The throat – the passageway that ferries a perpetual cargo of air, food, and words – is under constant duress as the access point to the essential constituents of its precious load: Breathing, eating, and speaking take on new meanings and perils at every turn of environmental shifts and political violence. Ecological devastation, food insecurity, and now a global pandemic are weighing on our bodies in the most palpable ways. Imagining the exhibition space as a living-breathing throat, we forge an organic space where artistic research can form new communities around shared concerns, and spill into Vienna as an urban laboratory for the study and exploration of total cohabitation.