choi
Programm soon to be announced!
A new church is being launched. In a three-day happening, this newly created temple will take the audience beyond the event horizon of knowledge. It creates meaning through nonsense and teaches agnosia. It finds techniques that counteract the general anger and depression caused by the increasingly overwhelming sense of powerlessness (Ohnmacht), thus providing support and cohesion. In the School of Ignorance, we examine the relationship of logic to the world and how to deal with ambivalence.
„Who turns the tide?“ The Church of Ignorance (Choi) analyzes the culture of thought that prompts such a question and the expectations it raises. What do we do with logic and what does logic do with us? How do we deal with ambivalence? The ingrained paradigm of the vector called progress, namely „knowing how to go on“, creates a feeling of powerlessness when it collides with a wall of major crises. Choi faces this powerlessness (Ohnmacht), establishes an awareness of the ambivalence not perceived in the divisive light of logic, and invites everyone to publically commit to non-knowledge and not-knowing-how-to-go-on.
At the first Pole Sitting in Linz, high above Herrenstraße, you can confess your ignorance. In the artistic evening programme, the bands Fuckhead, Enesi M and Gruppensex celebrate ecstatic concerts, while the Pataphysical Orchestra astounds with skilful not-knowing. Mass, confession and other healing rituals are performed. Bruixes Lab hold a workshop on unlearning taboos and Miriam Stoney deals with the imperatives of self-help and self-care.
In the School of Ignorance, during daylight, we explore the topics of non-knowledge, ambivalence and decidability on a scientific, philosophical and theoretical level. The connection between logic and familiar categories of stratified, hierarchical societies, such as justice, the public sphere, prosperity, hope and happiness, are questions that we address.
Curators: Raphaela Edelbauer, Simon Nagy, Dominika Meindl, Kat Suryna, Thomas Preindl, Walter Stadler
Credits:
Linsey McGoey, Miriam Stoney, Bruixes Lab, Sonja Riegler, Lydia Haider, Moritz Danner, Anna Weberberger, Fabian Navarro, Thomas Kranabetter, Diana Pankova, Miha Godec, Kaname Muroya, Walter Schalter, Anna Freudenthaler, Uwe Hochhauser, Rene Monet
Partner: Forum Stadtpark
Nightline
Enesi M, Fuckhead, Gruppensex, Quatsch mit Sosa, Pataphysical Orchestra