{"id":2759,"date":"2017-06-02T10:09:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T08:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balkon.art\/home\/?p=2759\/"},"modified":"2019-06-07T09:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T07:23:23","slug":"immaterial-anna-fabricius-janek-tomza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balkon.art\/home\/en\/immaterial-anna-fabricius-janek-tomza\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodies are immaterial*"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n

IMMATERIAL<\/em> | Exhibition of Anna Fabricius and Janek Tomza<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”25″][vc_column_text]\n

Curator: Tomasz Piars<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”25″][vc_column_text]\n

Platan Gallery, Budapest
\n17 May \u2013 22 June 2017<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]There is a very famous, and one might say, really fascinating anecdote in the Preface of Judith Butler\u2019s<\/span> now-classic academic monograph Bodies that Matter.<\/em> The author recalls how, it the times of working on the book, the following question was formulating to her: \u201cWhat\u2019s with the materiality of the body, Judy?\u201d Later on she concludes that the thought of materiality invariably moved her into other domains, which presumably evokes many analogues in the viewer of this recent inspiring exhibition here at Plat\u00e1n Gallery of the Budapest Polish Institute.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” top_margin=”0″ bottom_margin=”0″ el_class=”box-l20″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none” offset=”vc_col-sm-offset-0″][divider line_type=”Small Line” line_alignment=”default” line_thickness=”4″ divider_color=”extra-color-2″ custom_height=”20″ custom_line_width=”100″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1496431232688{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”]\n

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Text of the opening speech that was held on 27 May 2017.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” top_margin=”0″ bottom_margin=”0″ el_class=”full-4″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][image_with_animation image_url=”2730″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%” el_class=”full-img”][vc_column_text]\n

IMMATERIAL<\/em> \u2013 exhibition of Anna Fabricius and Janek Tomza | photo: R\u00e9ka Hegyh\u00e1ti<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”40″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]We should at least borrow the metaphoric subtitle of Butler\u2019s book, which is \u201cOn the discursive limits of sex\u201d (as the opposite of gender) for the new joint display called Immaterial<\/em>, works of Anna Fabricius<\/span> and Janek Tomza.<\/span> [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” el_class=”box-l20″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none” offset=”vc_col-sm-offset-0 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” top_margin=”0″ bottom_margin=”0″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][image_with_animation image_url=”2711″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%” el_class=”full-img”][vc_column_text]\n

IMMATERIAL<\/em> \u2013 exhibition of Anna Fabricius and Janek Tomza | photo: R\u00e9ka Hegyh\u00e1ti<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”40″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]These artworks are of course not questioning (only) the limits of sex, but the limits of \u2013 well, materiality \u2013 and maybe even more than that, the limits of presence, the limits of technology and the limits of the body as a social construction. At the beginning of the 19th century some serious anthropological changes happened caused by theoretical and scientifical progress. The methodology of reading was impregnated with optical function while the interpretation of the body evoked mechanicity. These complex processes are still effecting the conception and design of bodies and identities in the 21st century, either in consumption culture and artworks. Said shifts are merging into one discursive imprint at Immaterial\u2019<\/em>s very material space. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” el_class=”box-l20″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none” offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”left-right” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][layerslider_vc id=”4″][vc_column_text]\n

IMMATERIAL<\/em> \u2013 exhibition of Anna Fabricius and Janek Tomza | photo: R\u00e9ka Hegyh\u00e1ti<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]The main description of the exhibition proposes an idea from Victor Buchlin\u2019s<\/span> 2016 book An Archeology of the Immaterial<\/em> which examines the denial of materiality within contrasted social systems, and I quote: \u201cA common feature of both post-industrial capitalism, Christian asceticism and reformation, as well as Leninism that nonetheless unite in making sure that matter always draws the shortest straw, and traces this denial to a particular view of the body \u2013 as a disposable vessel for the soul.\u201c In this case, archeology is understood both as a strategy and a point of view, in which these installations can be seen with kaleidoscope eyes. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” el_class=”box-l20″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none” offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”40″][nectar_video_lightbox link_style=”play_button_2″ nectar_play_button_color=”Extra-Color-1″ image_url=”2714″ hover_effect=”defaut” box_shadow=”none” border_radius=”none” play_button_size=”default” video_url=”https:\/\/vimeo.com\/82944701″][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Within the video installations of Anna Fabricius and Janek Tomza\u2019s series \u2013 that turn patterns of flea market paintings and figures of computer games into colorful sculptures \u2013 social rivals with individual, real rivals with virtual, fluid rivals with static, artistry rivals with trivial, and above all, they offer themselves a technological and a cultural analysis. To understand a society one should understand contemporary cultural effects, and vice versa.<\/p>\n

It is a clich\u00e9 that the medium essentially determines the quality of the artpiece. However in the case of digitally rooted pictures and artworks we have to put an emphasis on that sentence. It is not a coincidence that technological artwork is rewriting our culturally ingrained habits and stereotypes by integrating mediums to fine art which could be known only as an entertainig or popular function before. It confirms that the idea of subjectivity is highly and essentially determinated by the technological connexion which is characterizing by the actual age and implies that identity and interpretation could only partly be substantive because of the effects of the technological background and mechanical environment they are constructed by.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” el_class=”box-l20″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none” offset=”vc_col-sm-offset-0 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”40″][image_with_animation image_url=”2736″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%” el_class=”full-img”][vc_column_text]\n

IMMATERIAL<\/em> \u2013 exhibition of Anna Fabricius and Janek Tomza | photo: R\u00e9ka Hegyh\u00e1ti<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”40″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Just like objects, people are bodies themselves, and they have bodies as envelopes and barriers. We often tend to forget how easily and in how many ways a person, an object, or even an idea can be broken. That is not what is happening here. New spatial stories are rising from virtual ones, social strategies from individual ones in the artworks of Anna Fabricius and Janek Tomza.<\/p>\n

Thank you for the opportunity to think about Immaterial<\/em> \u2013 the phenomenon and the exhibition. I congratulate the artists and wish you all a pleasant, material presence in Immaterial.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none” offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”left-right” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”10″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-7-percent” column_padding_position=”top-bottom” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”]