On the occasion of their residency at Trauma Bar und Kino, THE FAIREST is proud to present Falling off the Face of the Earth, a group exhibition that explores how a collective feeling of unearthing permeates contemporary art and performance. From existential dread to the hyper-saturated sense of self, from sensory media overload to what seems like a world in decay, each artist reckons with various current issues that are driving factors in shifting and shaping our present day. By bringing them together, Falling off the Face of the Earth seeks to map a structure of feeling. When this collective suffocation chokes all language before it can be articulated, a new generation of young artists thus conjures a visual language to unravel our sense of now. Dumping the blind ignorance of truth-telling narratives, they favour a multitudinous choir of situated voices, collectively reverberating the question of what it means to live today.
Falling off the Face of the Earth brings together not only the eight exhibited artists and artist-duos but also specific live acts and performances, facilitating a dialogue between live art, visual art and club culture. As both Trauma Bar and Kino and THE FAIREST seek to nurture experimental practices, the events will range from live music sets to poetic concerts, sound healing sessions to performance art. Together, they complement the exhibition in its aim to create an immersive, emotional space in which subjectivities can be negotiated. Here, states of being are not fixed but permeable, not predetermined but aggregated, where viewer and actor synthesise.
EXHIBITION Bianca Hlywa, EXPAT (Mykki Blanco & Samuel Acevedo), George Jasper Stone, Lauriane Daphne Carl, Shamiran Istifan, Suzannah Pettigrew, Theodolus Polyviou
CLUB EXPAT (live), New World Dysorder: Mama Yha Yha / Cali Rose / ARIESFALLENANGEL
Tickets: 13€
