FIRE AND FORGET. ON VIOLENCE

Exhibition Dates: 2015.06.14 – 08.30

Exhibition Venue: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

Artists: Marina Abramović and Ulay; Ron Amir; Julius von Bismarck; Roy Brand, Ori Scialom, and Keren Yeala Golan; James Bridle; Luis Camnitzer; Mircea Cantor; Jota Castro; Chto Delat; Marcelo Cidade; Jem Cohen; Martin Dammann; Öyvind Fahlström; Harun Farocki; Daniil Galkin; Rudolf Herz; Damien Hirst; Clara Ianni; Emily Jacir; Hunter Jonakin; Joachim Koester; Korpys/Löffler; Barbara Kruger; Armin Linke; Robert Longo; Jazmín López; Kris Martin; Michael Müller; Timo Nasseri; NEOZOON; Katja Novitskova; Pipilotti Rist; Frank&Robbert Robber&Frank; André Robillard; Julian Röder; Henning Rogge; Martha Rosler; Hrair Sarkissian; Santiago Sierra; Timur Si-Qin; Tal R; Javier Téllez; Sharif Waked; Gillian Wearing; He Xiangyu; Amir Yatziv; Ala Younis

Curated by Ellen Blumenstein and Daniel Tyradellis

Magician Space artist Timur Si-Qin will participate in Group Show “FIRE AND FORGET. ON VIOLENCE”. “Fire and forget” comes from military jargon, and is a term for weapons systems that are no longer used in direct combat with an enemy but are launched from a safe distance. The exhibition FIRE AND FORGET. ON VIOLENCE takes the military expression as the starting point for an examination of the conventional ideas about war and force. The project revolves around the dimensions of violence that go with the new technological change, and the different strategies. The exhibition is oriented towards the most visible agent of violence: weapons.

FIRE AND FORGET. ON VIOLENCE applies the means of contemporary art to address the long-term effects of these new weapons on the human psyche. The loss of a direct, physical confrontation and the danger for one’s own life had created, separates the violent situation itself from affects like reluctance for killing or overreaction, sympathy or hate.

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