Vertigo of Reality examines how the profound changes in artistic practice as a result of new media, from photography to film to digital media, in particular digitalisation, have resulted in a stream of new strategies tackling ways to construct or deconstruct reality in and with art, attempting to make a contribution to enlightenment and resistance through critical appraisal. The show inevitably engages with relational aesthetics and the concept of audience participation. In line with Roland Barthes’ Death of the Author, the practitioners behind the exhibition are almost subservient to the viewers themselves. In focusing on the audiences’ perception of a work and how it interacts with reality, the role of the artist is changed to that of an enabler. Ultimately the questions of reality and art’s effect on it are manifold and complex, and they provide a continual topic of debate.

Upcoming events:

Wed, 03 December, 18.00h
Forum: Panel discussion with Horst Bredekamp and Wulf Herzogenrath on the role of images in dissolving the private-public border. How do images operate and act?
- free admission
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Wed, 03 December, 20.00h
Forum: Worshop discussion and concert with Marcel Beyer, Jörn Peter Hiekel, Jacqueline Merz, Manos Tsangaris, Pi-hsien Chen as well as students from HfM Dresden.
- free admission
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Thursday, 04 December, 18.00h
Guided Tour in the exhibition with curator Wulf Herzogenrath

Sun, 07 December, 17.00h
Luca Lombardi „Warum/ Why?“
Closing Concert: Second String Quarter 
Nomos Quartett
Followed by discussion with Luca Lombardi, Johannes Odenthal and guests.
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