10/05/2024
„Unselfing“, an exhibition with works by at
The exhibition takes its title from a term coined by Irish philosopher Iris Murdoch (1919-1999), describing a practice of voluntary self dissolution as a means to reach a degree of relationality that goes beyond the limits of subjectivity. A possible reaction to contemporary challenges, this idea could enable a position of both artistic and personal resistance in a moment where the self is in many ways considered a capital.
With newly developed performances, installations and interactive formats as well as videos and paintings, the exhibition explores the experience of self-dissolution: Possibilities of fluid identities, the death of one part of the self and the transformation of another, as well as feelings of empathy and oneness with the surrounding world—with humans or other species and nature. From mingled authorship and absorption in the collective, to physically and psychologically dissociating experiences through meditation, trance, pain or chemical substances, the exhibition seeks to outline a path and state of self-laterality, empathy and happiness. (Text: Dortmunder Kunstverein)
Curated by .seubert
Exhibition photos .philipp.franke
