Artist Talk: Modern Alibis

Thomas Locher and Willem de Rooij will be in conversation with Nicolaus Schafhausen in the framework of their current exhibition at Georg Kargl Fine Arts.

The event takes place at the Main Gallery at Georg Kargl Fine and starts at 6 pm. The talk will be held in English.

In “MODERN ALIBIS” Thomas Locher and Willem de Rooij deal with the changing of the aesthetic and social practice of knowledge production. To what extent do images and linguistic signs already contain their own vectors for interpretation? To what extent does the contemporary mediality of information influence the relationship between sender and receiver, between subject and object? Approaches of information-aesthetics and the examination of material-immanent production of meaning contribute significantly to the considerations of the two artists about different forms of knowledge transfer. Autonomy and the agenda of language, image and the work of art as a heuristic tool for viewing the world are put to the test here.