ARTISTS:
Vyacheslav Akhunov, Factory of Found Clothes (Gluklya & Tsaplya), Yuri Leiderman, Vlado Martek, Jinoos Taghizadeh, ŠKART, Yelena Vorobyeva & Viktor Vorobyev
CURATORS:
WHW
Kunsttraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt
14/1 – 26/2/2010
Ground Floor America is the title of a travel book by Soviet writer duo Ilf and Petrov, written in 1936. Ground floor America takes Ilf’s and Petrov’s approach as a starting point for questioning the notion of “curatorial research“ within the broader field of cultural translation, looking at the parallels between the burgeoning liberal economy’s capacity to erode a hitherto existing social consensus—both in the crisis era of the 1930s and at present.
