Gruppenausstellung "Callings from the deep"

How to imagine a future when time stands still, when we seem stuck in the present? When the present wraps itself around and paralyzes us, exhausting our senses and imagination?

Together with Austria-based as well as international artists, the group exhibition "Callings from the deep" ventures out to break through the heavy and sticky crust of the present. Seeking to unleash unscripted, more livable futures for the many, it takes its cues from "acid communism" a never finished concept by cultural critic Mark Fisher who died in 2017. Fisher had traced back the "disappearance of the future" to the early 2000s, when electronic music, in particular, started to fail at producing "futuristic" sounds. Crafting realities "radically different from the one we currently live in," he argued, would require mind-altering states.  

"Callings from the deep" transports these lines of thought into 2022 and dives into the underworlds of hallucinations, psychedelic trance-like states and surreal fever dreams. It celebrates transcendental experiences, dreams and ecstasy as reminders that we are co-creators of interdependent and caring worlds - for humans and more-than-human beings.

Lavinia Lanner // presse@dasweissehaus.at // +43 1 2363775
das weisse haus, Hegelgasse 14, 1010 Wien

das weisse haus has been present in Vienna since 2007 as a venue for exhibitions, performances and lectures by young artists and in cooperation with national and international partners. During this time, the Kunstverein, under the direction of Alexandra Grausam, has taken up six locations and occupied vacant buildings of various sizes as well as numerous satellites in nomadic interim use.

With studio das weisse haus, a studio and residence program for national and international artists, curators, critics, and theoreticians was added in 2013 to the platform's field of activity - visible in the ever stronger interweaving of the two focal points and the networking of the participating actors.

Initially, the focus was on young artists, whereas now the content has shifted to positions that deal with current events.

This release was published on openPR.