{"id":398,"date":"2011-04-11T12:10:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T10:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.khm.de\/sag\/?p=398"},"modified":"2011-04-11T12:10:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T10:10:14","slug":"how-to-do-things-with-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"How To Do Things With Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An Exhibition of Radical Speech Acts<\/strong><br \/>\nOctober 30\u2013November 9, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opening Reception:<\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>\nNovember 1, 2010, 6:00 \u2013 8:00 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Sheila C. Johnson Design Center<br \/>\nParsons The New School for Design<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/service.gmx.net\/de\/cgi\/derefer?TYPE=3&amp;DEST=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newschool.edu%2Fsjdc\">http:\/\/www.newschool.edu\/sjdc<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2011\/04\/image-web-1.jpg\" alt=\"how to do things with words\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The  exhibition presents the work of fifteen artists and collectives who  explore the relationship between language and power, media, action, and  socio-political context through gallery works, talks, workshops and  performances. The exhibition takes its name from the title of a  groundbreaking treatise by British philosopher J.L. Austin, who  eloquently presented the concept of speech acts. He disavowed the notion  of language as something passive that simply describes reality, but  rather described it as a set of practices that can be used to affect and  create realities. Austin&#8217;s premise is that speaking itself contains the  power of doing.<\/p>\n<p>Participating artists include\u00a0<strong>Melanie Crean; Azin Feizabadi<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Kaya Behkalam; Andrea Geyer<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Sharon Hayes; Yael Kanarek; Carlos Motta; Martha Rosler; the Iraqi\/U.S. Cross Wire Collective; Mark Tribe<\/strong>; and\u00a0<strong>The Yes Men<\/strong>. Artists presenting talks and performances include\u00a0<strong>Wafaa Bilal<\/strong>; Feizabadi; Kanarek;\u00a0<strong>Huong Ngo<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Hong-An Truong<\/strong>; Tribe; and\u00a0<strong>Mary Walling Blackburn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Several  pieces in the show relate speech to the urgency of the political  process during an election season. Carlos Motta&#8217;s Six Acts: An  Experiment in Narrative Justice (2010) reenacts a series of speeches  concerning the concept of peace, originally delivered by six liberal  Colombian presidential candidates from the last century who were  assassinated because of their ideology. Performed by actors in public  squares in Bogota during the last presidential campaign, the work  emphasizes the transformative potential of fiction as a tool of  reparative collective memory. Azin Feizabadi&#8217;s The Epic of the Lovers:  God, Mafia and the Citizens (2009) muses on the disparity between  individual and collective desire for change during Iran&#8217;s Green  movement, written and photographed by the artist as he participated in  the protests in Tehran. Melanie Crean&#8217;s The Anonymous Archives  (2008-10), is an online archive of interviews that document the rapid  shifts in Iraqi and American desire for pol itical change during the  period of US military divestment, beginning before the 2008 election of  President Obama, and finishing just after the current US mid-term  elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Exhibition of Radical Speech Acts October 30\u2013November 9, 2010 Opening Reception:\u00a0 November 1, 2010, 6:00 \u2013 8:00 pm Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Parsons The New School for Design http:\/\/www.newschool.edu\/sjdc The exhibition presents the work of fifteen artists and collectives who explore the relationship between language and power, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-positions-projects","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}