[rohrpost] Superenhanced in Italy

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brzzl-buzz,

anbei den englischen einladungstext unserer nächsten ausstellung;
und ein foto (keine ahnung ob das auf die mliste durchkommt)

hans, lizvlx & the girlz
UBERMORGEN.COM


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UBERMORGEN.COM
Superenhanced


OPENING & PERFORMANCE: Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 6.00 PM

 From January 17 to March 7, 2009
3.00 – 7.00 PM, closed on Sunday


Fabio Paris Art Gallery is proud to announce the second solo  
exhibition by the Austrian artist duo UBERMORGEN.COM, presenting the  
world preview of the project “Superenhanced”, which is dedicated  
to the pressing issue of torture. Though torture is banned almost  
everywhere, it has re-emerged under a new set of names with the  
neutral, tidy, functional language of marketing and branding. http:// 
ipnic.org/superenhanced

Kidnapping is now called “extraordinary rendition”, and torture  
is “enhanced interrogation”: “an efficient way to extract  
valuable information from unwilling detainees” that uses so-called  
“soft” techniques such as the Attention Grab (the interrogator  
forcefully grabs the prisoner’s shirt front and shakes them) and the  
Attention Slap (an open-handed slap to the face); the Belly Slap (a  
hard open-handed slap to the abdomen, able to cause pain, but not  
internal injury); this then continues into “harsh techniques” like  
then Long Time Standing, with prisoners forced to stand, handcuffed,  
for more than 40 hours; the Cold Cell, where the prisoner is left to  
stand naked in a cell kept near 10 degrees Celsius; Waterboarding, a  
controlled form of drowning, and Sleep Deprivation, where they are  
not allowed to sleep for several days. These are mostly psychological  
techniques, which do not leave marks on the detainee’s body, and  
have been used for years (since the Reagan administration) in  
America’s Supermax prisons (but also in places like Kandahar, Bagram  
Airbase and Guantanamo Bay) to prepare ‘unlawful enemy  
combatants’ (including numerous children) for interrogation. The  
final set of methods used by authorities are the classic extremely  
brutal ones: Hanging prisoners by their wrists for days, beating  
prisoners, breaking bones, amputation of limbs, starving prisoners  
and killing prisoners.

UBERMORGEN.COM gets to grips with this sinister subject matter, but  
rather than condemning a human rights outrage that is there for all  
to see, appears to be more interested, on one hand, in exploring the  
hypocrisies of the language that renders it acceptable, and on the  
other the moral position of the spectator when exposed to ambiguous  
questions and disturbing images. The point of departure is the  
Superenhanced Generator, a web project (displayed in installation  
form) that contains a smart interrogation engine, basically capable  
of comprehending the spectator’s responses, and that generates a  
fake legal document (a foriginal), modelled on rendition orders and  
interrogation protocols.
The installation is accompanied by a series of photographic prints  
( http://ipnic.org/superenhanced/photos.html ) and a video which  
adopt the ascetic aesthetic of maximum security prisons representing  
child prisoners undergoing intimidation and torture: the photos are  
staged poses of a reality that no-one wants to believe in – a  
reality that is conveyed to the public eye as a form “collateral  
damage” in a “necessary” fight against terror. The images are  
nicely lit and professionally produced, but they are profoundly  
unsettling due to the truths that lie beneath their patina of glamour.

On the evening of the opening, the installation will be accompanied  
by a performance.

UBERMORGEN.COM (lizvlx & Hans Bernhard, www.ubermorgen.com) is an  
artist duo based in Vienna, Austria. Behind UBERMORGEN.COM we can  
find one of the most unmatchable identities – controversial and  
iconoclast – of the contemporary European techno-fine-art avant- 
garde. Their open circuit of conceptual art, drawing, software art,  
pixelpainting, computer installations, net.art, sculpture and digital  
activism (media hacking) transforms their brand into a hybrid  
Gesamtkunstwerk.

In February/March 2009, Christoph Merian Verlag (Publisher) will  
release: HANS BERNHARD, LIZVLX - UBERMORGEN.COM, MEDIA HACKING VS.  
CONCEPTUAL ART, ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO (ED.) with contributions by Olia  
Lialina, Dragan Espenschied, Florian Cramer, Yukiko Shikata, Cornelia  
Sollfrank, Inke Arns, Peter Weibel, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Marina  
Grzinic, Grischinka Teufl, Stefan Nussbaumer, Jacob Lillemose,  
Nebojsa Milikic, Raffael Doerig, Domenico Quaranta and 2 Interviews  
(WMMNA & Neural.it). And in February 2009, FPEditions  
(www.fpeditions.com) will publish the monograph UBERMORGEN.COM  
(edited by Domenico Quaranta, with contributions by Inke Arns and  
Jodi.org).

fabioparisartgallery
via Alessandro Monti 13 - 25121 Brescia - tel. 030 3756139 - Skype:  
fabioparisbs
www.fabioparisartgallery.com


Superenhanced is supported by MIGROS kulturprozent



Hans-

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Hans Bernhard
UBERMORGEN.COM

Skype: Hans_Bernhard
Mobile +43 650 930 00 61
Email hans at ubermorgen.com
http://www.ubermorgen.com


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