Anna Witt
28 Feb - 27 May 2018
ANNA WITT
28 February – 27 May 2018
Curated by Luisa Ziaja
Anna Witt's artistic practice is performative, participatory and political: she creates situations that reflect interpersonal relationships and power relations as well as conventions of speaking and acting.
Again and again Witt investigates questions of subject formation, how we become, who we are, what we do, what we believe in, what we fight for and how this social self is related to political and economic conditions. She designs experimental arrangements that always give the random or specifically selected protagonists possibilities of individual articulation and authorship.
For the solo exhibition at the 21er Haus, Anna Witt develops a new work that sheds light on the local situation of a large urban development area with regard to the imaginations of an optimized working and living environment. What value do we attribute to which occupation? What does it mean to interrupt or even stop working? What role does political organization play in this context and what visual vocabulary does it use? As a point of departure Anna Witt uses both virtual renderings of the adjacent quarters around the main railway station as well as real experiences of people who work here in many different sectors, from construction, railway and service to banking and investment.
Anna Witt was born in 1981 in Wasserburg am Inn (Germany), she lives and works in Vienna.
28 February – 27 May 2018
Curated by Luisa Ziaja
Anna Witt's artistic practice is performative, participatory and political: she creates situations that reflect interpersonal relationships and power relations as well as conventions of speaking and acting.
Again and again Witt investigates questions of subject formation, how we become, who we are, what we do, what we believe in, what we fight for and how this social self is related to political and economic conditions. She designs experimental arrangements that always give the random or specifically selected protagonists possibilities of individual articulation and authorship.
For the solo exhibition at the 21er Haus, Anna Witt develops a new work that sheds light on the local situation of a large urban development area with regard to the imaginations of an optimized working and living environment. What value do we attribute to which occupation? What does it mean to interrupt or even stop working? What role does political organization play in this context and what visual vocabulary does it use? As a point of departure Anna Witt uses both virtual renderings of the adjacent quarters around the main railway station as well as real experiences of people who work here in many different sectors, from construction, railway and service to banking and investment.
Anna Witt was born in 1981 in Wasserburg am Inn (Germany), she lives and works in Vienna.