Untranquil now

With untranquil now, attention is focused on artworks, artefacts, performances, figures and events, that authorize complexity, in which bodies and modes of perception become the agents of contradictory states and troubled histories. Doing so, they disarm configurations of power, unlocking imagination to explore heterogeneous narratives. These artistic and performative gestures bank on a creative breakthrough of the world.

Being transdisciplinary, the exhibition and performance and film program present artworks that explore forms of displacement of stage, to become modernist building, social housing, roof, public place, park, abandoned site, archaeological excavation, industrial platform, and the presence of human or animal characters.

Proposing a web of historical resonances or coincidences, a multiplicity of situated contexts and spatio-sensorial experiences influenced by political and social circumstances, the exhibition establishes relations to memory, heritage, and intimacy. It brings to the surface historic sediments to propagate their effects. Doing so, in various regimes of intensity, it evokes »contrapuntal consciousness« (E. Said), and how art does justice to the event, in attempting to restore its intensive potential.

Artists: John Akomfrah, Francis Alÿs, Richard Artschwager, Au Sow Yee, Rosa Barba, Yto Barrada, Éric Baudelaire, Lothar Baumgarten, Wang Bing, Dara Birnbaum, Manon de Boer and Latifa Laâbissi, Trisha Brown, Chen Chieh-jen, Lucinda Childs, Tacita Dean, Ângela Ferreira, Peter Friedl, Coco Fusco, Dora Garcia, General Idea, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Dan Graham, Hsu Chia-Wei, Pierre Huyghe, Joan Jonas, Limbo Accra, Gordon Matta-Clark, Anca Munteanu Rimnic, Raqs Media Collective, Dieter Roth, Athi-Patra Ruga, Anri Sala, Tomoko Sauvage, Alexander Schellow, Nida Sinnokrot, Hyun-Sook Song, Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi, Rosemarie Trockel, Kara Walker, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Paola Yacoub, among others.