WORNG IN COPENHAGEN
Worng
Artists: Kristoffer Akselbo (DK), Goodiepal (DK), David Horvitz (US), Ferdinand Ahm Krag (DK), André Komatsu (BR), Takeshi Murata (US), Rasmus Høj Mygind (DK), Marie Kølbæk Iversen (DK), Pind (DK), Bertrand Planes (F), Torben Ribe (DK) & Nicolas Robbio (AR)
Period: April 16 – May 22, 2011
Curated by: Toke Lykkeberg & Julia Rodrigues
Returning to France from the Venice Biennial in 1995, Jean Baudrillard typed down his inner dialogue with contemporary art in an infamous article. He concluded that it was “mediocrity squared”:
It pretends to be null: ‘I am null! I am null!’ – and it is really null.
This cry, that Baudrillard was sure to identify and whose language he was so sure to understand, is still heard. And its echo resounds in this group exhibition at IMO under the heading “Worng”, which is hacker slang for wrong. But this time it resounds in an inappropriately more eloquent manner. Worng abounds with errors, flaws, distortions and mismanagement. However, the artists here do not just embrace failure. They also cultivate it. They try “to write the mediocre well,” as Gustave Flaubert put it.
If contemporary art is defined by its pluralism, then there is no right way of making art. Even to the point, where what might seem decidedly wrong becomes an option. And this option is not one option. It is a plethora of possibilities. There might be only one way of being right, but various ways of being wrong. The diversity is reflected in Worng, which presents anything from failed file sharing and distorted pictures to a text illustrated by its own obliteration and records which risk ruining the recording artist the very moment they start to sell.
At the opening, Goodiepal will give “a concert or playback lecture.”
Please download David Horvitz's book "Public Access", which will be presented at Worng.
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