Statement #14 | Guilherme Maggessi & Rafał Morusiewicz — Duration Trouble (In the Meantime of a Wormhole #1)

Statement #14 - Guilherme Maggessi & Rafał Morusiewicz
Duration Trouble (In the Meantime of a Wormhole #1)

Performances
November 16, 2021, 6 and 7 pm
Open space, from 4 pm

“Thinking of a future,” say Guilherme Maggessi and Rafał Morusiewicz, “always implies a horizon.” In their performance at Kunstraum Lakeside, the duo conducts a transmedial experiment dedicated to fabulating a future by employing various theorizations of futures, from José Esteban Muñoz’s queer utopia to Wendy Hui Kyong Chun’s “future as (a) memory.” While the former employs the adjective “future” as an intrinsic modality of queerness, looming on the horizon and always not-yet-here, the latter imagines a future as an upgrade, and not a radical change, to what already exists. In both, the present is a transition zone and a space for acting in the here-and-now, which continuously realigns itself to foresight, marked by coordinates of openness, dialogue ability, and inclusion. The Statement in Kunstraum Lakeside is intended as the result of the convergence of Morusiewicz and Maggessi’s individual artistic practices, which manifests as a polylog between diverse narratives, media, and temporalities.

Guilherme Maggessi (b. 1994 in Brazil) lives and works in Vienna.| Rafał Morusiewicz (b. 1979 in Poland) lives and works in Vienna.

www.guilherme-maggessi.com
www.rafalmorusiewicz.com