The Pow(d)er of I Am Klick Klick Klick Klick and a very very bad bad musical!
May 15–September 5, 2021
The title of this exhibition by the artists’ duo Stefan Panhans (Germany) and Andrea Winkler (Switzerland) refers to the rhetoric used by Evangelical Protestant megachurches in the USA, preaching a market-compatible neoliberal ideology of individual self-optimisation under the guise of Christian morals. The two artists’ works revolve around SUVs, communication with artificial intelligences, everyday racism, the cult of celebrity and clichéd roles, the “uncanny valley” and other post-digital feedback loops between human beings and virtualworlds as well as, last but not least, the precarious status of cultural workers.
The exhibition presents six video installations plus a selection of sculptural and photographic works. The video installations consist of three new productions Border Control (2021, premiere), Defender (2021, premiere) and If You Tell Me When Your Birthday Is (Machinima Version) (2020), together with HOSTEL (2018), Freeroam À Rebours, Mod#I.1 (2017/2021) and Noch ein Sportstück (2014).
For the exhibition, a publication with texts by Inke Arns, Martin Herbert and Tom McCarthy will be released.
As part of the exhibition, a comprehensive digital program will take place.
Andrea Winkler, b. 1975 in Zurich. Stefan Panhans, b. 1967 in Hattingen (Ruhr), Germany. Winkler and Panhans live and work in Hamburg and Berlin.
