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ANIMAL PAIN
Mara-Daria Cojocaru 

Video

The video is available in German.

Philosophy lecturer and writer Mara-Daria Cojocaru ties in with themes from Yalda Afsah’s exhibition. The contribution ANIMAL PAIN focuses on the suffering of animals and, among other things, also addresses animal protection laws. To what extent can animal suffering be adequately understood from a human perspective? 

Recommended reading:
Mara-Daria Cojocaru, Menschen und andere Tiere. Plädoyer für eine leidenschaftliche Ethik, WBG 2021.
Saskia Stucki, Grundrechte für Tiere, Nomos 2016.
Alasdair Cochrane, Should Animals Have Political Rights? Polity 2020
Arianna Ferrari und Klaus Petrus (Hg.), Lexikon der Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen, transcript 2015.

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Vanessa Joan Müller, Evelyn Plaschg
Conversation 

Video

The book presentation accompanying Evelyn Plaschg’s exhibition Viscous City features a conversation between Vanessa Joan Müller, Sandro Droschl, and the artist herself. Müller’s essay Ansichten des Unbestimmten (Views of the Indefinite) describes Plaschg’s painting as a poetic-analytical reflection on the body, pictorial space, and urban experience, inviting an in-depth exchange on image, text, and perception.

Viscous City: Evelyn Plaschg, Vanessa Joan Müller

Evelyn Plaschg
Concert

Video

The video shows an excerpt from Evelyn Plaschg’s concert, which she presented as part of her exhibition Viscous City at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark. The artist’s sound performance enters into dialogue with her paintings on display.

Evelyn Plaschg concert

Evelyn Plaschg
Viscous City

Slide show

Evelyn Plaschg combines sophisticated technique and her own idiosyncratic imagery to produce a kind of painting that is figurative in ways that transcend all standard approaches.

Viscous City

Louise Giovanelli
A Song of Ascents

Slide show

Louise Giovanelli paints striking hypnotic works that emit light both on a visual and metaphorical level. Her works often show mysterious objects, such as a closed curtain, a glimmering shock of hair, or the reflecting surface of a cocktail glass. There are also human figures, often women, seemingly caught in moments between awe and desperation, or about to cross over a border of experience and knowledge.

A Song of Ascents

Evelyn Plaschg
Artist Talk 

Video

Together, artist Evelyn Plaschg and curator Jan Tappe will speak about the process of painting, shifts within the artist’s practice, the role of photography as a point of departure, the presence of the body in the image, and a growing interest in urban spaces and infrastructures.

Evelyn Plaschg