27—28.12.2014
Costa&Obermair, Schneiderei, Vienna, AT

Opening December 27th 2014, 4-7 pm
at Meridian Space and Urbanus E6
Behind 77 Theatre at C&C Park, 77 Meishuguan Houjie, Dongcheng district, Beijing

Featuring works and
collaborations by
Christiane Huber
Enrique Lanz
Wolfgang Obermair
Jagrut Raval.

Gatherings of exiles and émigrés and refugees; gathering on the edge of ‘foreign’ cultures; gathering at the frontiers; gathering in the ghettos or cafes of city centers; gathering in the half-life, half-light of foreign tongues, or in the uncanny fluency of another’s language … of other worlds lived retroactively; gathering the past in a ritual of revival; gathering the present”Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture

“In-Between You and Me” is an attempt to understand the spatial temporality formed between individuals in a foreign land. The exhibition endeavors to comprehend various artistic visions from disparate locations around the world and present them in a liminal space. The space is a starting point that triggers the interactions and juxtaposes different narratives. The boundary between the viewer and the viewed gets diminished in this liminal space. The actions, sounds and gestures construct a dynamic aura within the space that leads to a potent question – Does the space between ‘Us’ and the ‘Other’ exist? Or is it merely a fictitious cavity that we imagine?

Curated by Emma Karasz
Photography: Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair

Pending
Photography on rice paper
2014

Wave
Performance, stoles
Collaborative performance
2014

During the opening a line of stoles was moved constantly through the space like a wave

SPIT
setup for a performance with stoll, glass, wood, 2014,
Performance
in collaboration with Jagrut Raval

Wolfgang Obermair Dresdner Strasse 46/10 1200 Vienna / Austria