Guided tour in the exhibition Geisterknochen
On the 26th of September 2024, from 6 pm Zsolt Miklósvölgyi and Márió Nemes Z. will hold a guided tour in the exhibition Technologie und das
Unheimliche (T+U): Geisterknochen.
on view: 07/09 - 27/10/2024
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The event will be in Hungarian.
Free entrance, all are welcome.
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Technologie und das Unheimliche (T+U): Geisterknochen
with artworks by:
Hynek Alt, Lőrinc Borsos ,
Aleksandr Delev, Miklós Erdély, Márk Fridvalszki, László Győrffy, Insane
Temple (Stach Szumski & Nestor Peixoto Aballe), Július Koller
(JKS), Tamás Komoróczky, Márió Z. Nemes, Dominika Trapp
Curators: T+U (Márk Fridvalszki, Zsolt Miklósvölgyi, Márió Z. Nemes), Borbála Szalai
The exhibition entitled Geisterknochen and the accompanying fanzine Paleohauntology offer
an insight into the creative and theoretical practice of the past ten
years of the collective Technologie und das Unheimliche (T+U). Combining
archaeology, geology, philosophy and speculative futurisms, the
collective invites visitors on an artistic excavation of the haunted
unconscious of techno-culture in collaboration with further artists.
Referring to Jacques Derrida's concept of hauntology, which rethinks our
contemporary condition based on an ontology of ghosts, paleohantology
encourages us to reckon with our biological, geological and cultural
heritage. In doing so, our prehuman past and posthuman future explode
like a meteorite into our present, like the still unexplained Tunguska
event.
The title of the exhibition refers to
Hegel's famous critical suggestion that the spirit can be seen as a
bone. From a paleohantological point of view, it can be further
interpreted as the idea that human existence can in fact be understood
as a phantom-like remnant of a non-human materiality. UFO ergo sum. Not
only do we live in a constant cycle of ghostly temptations, but we
ourselves are also ghosts. This determines not only the themes of
artistic practice, but also our approach to the history of art. The
community of ghosts perpetuates itself in the form of ghost evocations.
The exhibition can therefore be seen not only as a cursed excavation,
but also as a séance, in which phantoms from T+U's past are amalgamated
with the ectoplasm of the Hungarian and global artistic positions.
