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Gerald Nestler: HEDGE AVANTGARDE, exhibition view, photo: Wolfgang Thaler |
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HEDGE AVANTGARDE, exhibition view RENEGADES TRAITORS EDUCATORS. Wall text, 50 x 900 cm, 2015.. Photo: Wolfgang Thaler
HEDGE AVANTGARDE, exhibition view, photo: Wolfgang Thaler
WE TAKE YOU EVERYWHERE, BUT GET YOU NOWHERE blackboard, chalk, mathematical formulations, 2015. Residual of the opening performance by mathematician/quant Paul Wilmott and performers Andrea Gunnlaugsdottir, Nizan Kalina and Evandro Pedroni. Quantitative derivations of risk and the volatile sequences of movements in a crowded space. photo: Wolfgang Thaler
LA POVERA NELLA SUA CASA. Futurismo Nuovo (contracts for the 1% and the 99% respectively). Gestell (body): original OTC derivatives contract, application form; transparent paper, glue strip, GRP-bars, aluminum tubes, rope, composite materials, copies, iron, glass, 2015.
HEDGE AVANTGARDE, exhibition view, photo: Wolfgang Thaler
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Gerald Nestler
HEDGE AVANTGARDE Renegades, Traitors, Educators Inquiries into an Aesthetics of Resolution |
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May 6 - June 13, 2015 Hours: Wed – Fri, 4 - 7 pm
Opening: Tue, May 5, 2015, 7-10 pm 7.30 pm: we take you everywhere, but get you nowhere Performance-lecture by Paul Wilmott with Andrea Gunnlaugsdottir, Nizan Kalina and Evandro Pedroni
Monday, June 8, 2105, 7-10 pm: Book launch Making of finance, MERVE publishers, Berlin Armen Avanessian & Gerald Nestler (eds.)
HEGDE AVANTGARDE disperses the time-based flow of cinematic documentary into a spatial arrangement of material artefacts through which visitors move in time and space. Video footage, images, graphics, voice, performance, objects and texts provide the material for a query that resonates around the issue as to whether the conditions of perception and agency in the era of black boxes are being modified – if not disintegrated – into myriad derivative devices that are custom-built to exclude (capitalize) and at the same time internalize (socialize) underlying human assets. This begs the question whether an aesthetics of "resolution" could serve as a toolbox to counter proprietary schemes by employing the full purport of the term. The arbitrary, marginal but at the same time insurgent figure of the renegade – a traitor inside systems and an educator beyond their confines – is introduced as potential pharmakon against the ruptures that transform knowledge into capital and vision into social blindness.
Among other materials, the exhibition features video interviews with Haim Bodek (financial expert and whistleblower) and Randy Martin (dancer and theoretician); a mathematically-derived performance by Paul Wilmott (mathematician and expert in quantitative finance) including financialized sport equipment; educational footage by Sang Lucci about a financial transaction generating $600K profit; as well as contracts drawn up for the 1% and the 99% respectively.
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