#FromGesellschaftWithLove
with Luis Kürschner
Site-specific parasitic interventions: sound, video, objects, print, Instagram takeover
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
March 4–June 4, 2023
Curated by Adam Budak & Robert Knoke
[ɡəˈzɛlʃaft] is a parasitic exhibition of ephemeral character that pursues a strategy of unexpected appearance and disruption as a mode of operation. It fantasizes about what would happen if a hacking attack on the Kestner Gesellschaft took place. Through several parasitic interventions, an anonymous entity infects the hardware of the building with a new operating system – a software of love and tenderness which installs itself in the physical spaces.
The starting point is the infrastructure of the building and its internal procedures. The show infuses the hidden and forgotten spaces of the institution with fictions. It penetrates its basement and attic, its ventilation, announcement and ticketing system. Since the building’s organs are not accessible to the public, they harbor a certain mystery which the exhibition takes as a potential for a quasi-filmic narration. The secrets these spaces keep could be part of the cryptic plan prepared by the parasitic entity.
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