Episode 2: sabotage

ARTISTS:
Marco Godinho, Mickaël Marchand, Panayiotis Michael, Pierre-Etienne Morelle, Ariel Schlesinger, Anna Witt

4 July – 3 August 2013
insitu, Berlin

Sabotage is the disruption of a dynamic, the purposeful or unconscious ruin or failure of a system. Initiated as a worker’s strategy, sabotage has become a recurring artistic strategy in contemporary art. With »Episode 2: sabotage« insitu showed the work of seven artists that upset the harmony of an exhibition, like putting a spoke in the wheel of a moving machine.

Discord is generated by interferences between the works themselves as well as the works and their audience. While some deal with the architectural structure of the exhibition space, others sabotage in a more subtle way by causing irritation, disorder or threat.

CURATORS:
Marie Graftieaux, Nora Mayr, Gilles Neiens (as insitu)

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Episode2_view_4aAnna Witt »здесь деньги (Re-enactment of Money to find)« (2012); right: Marco Godinho »(...) is not real« (2013)
Episode2_view_07from left to right: Pierre-Etienne Morelle »Forbidden Corners« (2013); Marco Godinho »Universal Declaration« (2013); Marco Godinho »(...) is not real« (2013)Ariel Schlesinger »Untitled (Gas Loop)« (2011), detail