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From IT to social relations: “host”
In a time marked by mobilization, by the global circulation of data, objects, goods, and bodies too; in a time, in turn, when stringent attempts are being made to preclude the refuge and migration movements of people, Kunstraum Lakeside reflects on the capacity to accommodate others. The 2024 program asks what being a host is all about. Hospitality is ultimately a phenomenon permeated by power effects.
In 2024, we shed light on the multifarious aspects of hospitality. The departure point is the concept of the “host,” which has undergone an interpretative shift in the course of digitalization and virtualization: in IT, a host computer can basically be any resource that can host another resource as a “guest” or provide the clients connected to it with particular IT services. The term “host,” first used in connection with mainframes to refer to centralized hardware elements, is now used to denote, for example, virtual machines that share server capacities with other such units and host applications, or in the case of cloud providers, “hosting” describes a line of business.
Program 2024
The annual program at Kunstraum Lakeside explores how hosts enable or disable encounters with strangers and the other, what hosts expect from those who enter their territory, and if it is even possible to create spaces for hosting outside of prevailing conditions. And we stake out whether a host—as a host computer and part of a greater network—can serve us to better understand the necessities of global social relations.
Lisl Ponger
Opening: February 6, 2024, 6pm
Exhibition, February 7–March 29, 2024
Huda Takriti
Opening: April 9, 2024, 6pm
Exhibition, April 10–May 29, 2024
Steffi Parlow
Opening: June 11, 2024, 6pm
Exhibition, June 12–September 13, 2024
Dušan Barok
Opening: September 24, 2024, 6pm
Exhibition, September 25–November 15, 2024
Salome Dumbadze, Ana Gzirishvili, Nina Kintsurashvili
Opening: November 26, 2024, 6pm
Exhibition, November 26–January 2025
Open call 2025: “glitch”
Furthermore, Kunstraum Lakeside invites artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers to participate in the 2025 program by submitting exhibition proposals whose content relates to the upcoming annual topic of “glitch.” According to the feminist author Legacy Russell “a glitch is an error, a mistake, a failure to function. Within technoculture, a glitch is part of machinic anxiety, an indicator of something having gone wrong.” Kunstraum Lakeside is a platform for experiments with modes of representation in the visual arts at the interface between art, economy, and technology. A total of two solo shows of our yearly program will be chosen from the open call 2025.
Applications must be sent per email by March 10, 2024 (midnight). All material for the open call as well as the application requirements can be downloaded on the Kunstraum Lakeside website.
Curators
Gudrun Ratzinger & Franz Thalmair
