Kunsthaus Jour Fixe 24:

The exhibition Rock - Paper - Scissors at the Kunsthaus Graz is about how art construes the whole business of pop music, as a matter of controversy, quarry for material or something to escape. Virtually all artists alive today grew up with pop music and identify with it to a greater or lesser extent. How do they treat it, over and beyond the clichés of obsession and fan positions?

This will be debated by Diedrich Diederichsen, writer on pop and curator of the exhibition, radio producer Thomas Edlinger and the author and journalist Christof Huemer.
Moderator: Andrea Schurian (Der Standard).

entrance free

After the discussion, hardcore punk band Lago Morto will perform with artist Nico Vascellari live in Space04. For the exhibition Rock - Paper - Scissors, Vascellari turned the model of the cast band upside down. The performance of his Lago Morto band is about things that casting calls usually exclude - targeted aggression, unpredictable social effects and local politics. The basic condition when the band was founded in April 2009 was that all members should come from the small north Italian town of Vittorio Veneto and should tour the town together. From 10th - 24th May 2009, Lago Morto played at all possible venues - pizzeria, bar, laundry or video shop. Lago Morto can only export their social punk sculpture to Graz by bringing busloads of people from Vittorio Veneto with them. The film and sound material produced during the tour is also the starting point for the installation at the Kunsthaus Graz.

You are cordially invited to visit the exhibition Rock - Paper - Scissors. Pop Music as a Subject of Art prior to the event (6 - 7pm, entrance free).

Lago Morto live

http://www.subluminal.it/personal/nico/lagomorto/CalDeLivera_
Audio4tracce.mp3

Credit:
Lago Morto, live at Pizzeria Cal De Livera, Vittorio Veneto, May 23, 2009
Recorded by Giulio Tami. Thanks to everyone there that night!

Diedrich Diederichsen has had a varied career as an editor (music periodicals Sounds and Spex, 1980s), lecturer at art academies and in the History of Art, Applied Theatre Studies, Fashion and Public Appearance, Cultural and Musical Studies (1990s), Professor of Cultural Theory, Merz-Akademie, Stuttgart (1998-2006) and Professor of the Theory, Practice and Communication of Contemporary Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (2006-). Most recent publications: Über den Mehrwert (der Kunst), Rotterdam 2008, Kritik des Auges, Hamburg 2008, Eigenblutdoping, Cologne 2008.

Thomas Edlinger is a radio producer (FM4 - Im Sumpf), freelance writer and occasional curator. Most recently: The Porn Identity (Kunsthalle, Vienna). Current publication: Wem gehört die Stadt? Vienna - Art in Public Spaces since 1968.

Christof Huemer, 1972 born in Salzburg, living as journalist and author in Graz. 2008 DJ-Story Zweifellos.

Nico Vascellari is an artist, and as a singer and co-founder of the four-member punk band With Love has been involved in the music business since 1995. He is also active internationally as a noise-musician, and has worked with many of the major names in noise music.