MIWA NEGORO

Bodily contour is a boundary between the interior and exterior of the subject, thereby the boundary on which the power of the sociocultural hegemony is exercised. Language and its grammar formulate the system that establishes the dominant norms, gaining the power to form the I. If our body performs ourselves within cultural codes, how can we subvert the dominant ideology? The group exhibition investigates the performative mode of bodies, considering the bodies as a social sphere to utter, to gesture, and to resist in the interdependency with others and foreign. Keeping a critical eye on transcultural representations, my grammar and (y) ours? features artistic practices across choreography, writing, performance, installation, video, sculpture, and text, that challenge the hegemonic mechanisms and geopolitical complexities. Quynh Dong and Willimann/Arai reveal the fluidity of culture and the mobility of things, whereas Yamu Wang’s linguistic approach questions the issues of signification and identification. Stefanie Knobel weaves a narrative, seeking a new subject form: Interfacing the non-. Together with six artworks, the exhibition is an attempt to imagine alternative stories of the bodies.

curated by Miwa Negoro

EVENTS:

20 September 2018, 5:30pm: Free workout lesson Swiss Step Aerobics by Willimann/Arai *Starts in the Platzspitz

SWISS STEP AEROBICS is a short step-aerobics-sequence, developed by theartists Willimann/Arai. On 20 September 2018, the artists give a free workout lesson,which starts in the Park Platzspitz (next to the Landesmuseum) and moves to theexhibition space nearby.

4 October 2018, 7pm: A manifestation for the quasi-public by Stefanie Knobel

Knobel’s performance A manifestation for the quasi-public(2018) situates the performance’s estimation in an active process of degeneration while proposing to see ourselves in the perspectives of our lungs.

11 Oct / 01 Nov / 22 Nov 2018, 7pm : reading group

reading group meets triweekly on Thursday at 7 pm, at OnCurating Project Space within the context of the exhibitions: my grammar and (y)ours? (21.09-13.10.2018) and Silvan Kälin: Homo Viator (19.10-09.11.2018). The selection of texts discuss the topics around the dismantled geography, the concept of foreigners and hospitality, and the process of decolonization.

⇨ 11.10.2018. Thursday, 19:00 Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa (Chapter 5: How to Tame a Wild Tongue and Chapter 7: Towards a New

⇨ 01.11.2018. Thursday. 19:00 Step of Hospitality/No Hospitality by Jacques Derrida

⇨ 22.11.2018. Thursday. 19:00 Realism in the Work of Maria Thereza Alves by Paloma Checa-Gismero

Organized by Giovanna Bragaglia and Miwa Negoro