The Graz-based art association Kunstverein Medienturm continuously presents exhibitions, screenings and theoretical discussions, which are also edited in publications. In the field where media art and fine art experience cross over moments, material- and context references of "new media" face "old media" in a productive way. This interdisciplinary approach is basis for a preferred development of cross-medial projects, which advance current questions in the field of art production and theoretical reflection.
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"Forbidden Love: Art in the Wake of Television Camp" analyses television as a reactive and open process, as a space of the struggling for attention, of self-expression and affect, which popularises the discourse around identity, gender and difference. How do artists, who rather receive television casually and from a consumer-oriented point of view, and are interested in its (pop)cultural image production and it being a space of politics, experience this powerful “old lady” nowadays?

At the same time, Kölnischer Kunstverein shows a homonymous exhibition with other artistic positions. Both exhibitions are documented by one catalogue. MORE
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Forbidden Love: Art in the Wake of Television Camp

Opening: 25.9.2010, 10 a.m.
Press talk: 24.9.2010, 9 a.m.
Curator: Sandro Droschl
Co-production: Kunstverein Medienturm & steirischer herbst, Kölnischer Kunstverein
Thanks to: Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung

Press talk: Sept 24, 2010, 10 a.m.
IMAGE MATERIAL PRESS

Kölnischer Kunstverein
Period: 25.9.-19.12.2010
Opening: 24.9.2010, 7 p.m.
Curators: Anja Nathan-Dorn, Kathrin Jentjens
With Judith Barry, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Paul Chan, Mel Chin and the GALA Committee, Jaime Davidovich, Simon Denny, Kalup Linzy, Christoph Schlingensief, Ryan Trecartin, Francesco Vezzoli, Andy Warhol