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september 29, 2022 - Museion
Kingdom of the Ill curated by by Sara Cluggish and Pavel S. Pyś.
Bolzano, 29th September 2022 – #museion in Bolzano, Italy, presents Kingdom of the Ill, an international group exhibition curated by Sara Cluggish and Pavel S. Pyś. Opening on 30 September 2022, the exhibition marks the second installment of TECHNO HUMANITIES, a long-term research project initiated by #museion Director Bart van der Heide. The exhibition is supported by a series of public programs and an anthology of newly commissioned critical texts published by Hatje Cantz.
Occupying the entirety of the museum, Kingdom of the III investigates the contemporary social, corporate and institutional systems that influence our experience of healing and well-being. The exhibition seeks to respond to the current debate on health and illness, contamination and purity, and care and neglect by asking how and by whom a body is defined as healthy or sick.
The exhibition includes works by Enrico Boccioletti, Brothers Sick (Ezra and Noah Benus), #shuleacheang, Heather Dewey-Hagborg & #phillipandrewlewis, #juliafrank, #sharonafranklin, #barbaragamper, #nangoldin, #johannahedva, #ingridhora, #adelitahusnibey, #ianlaw, #carolynlazard, #lynnhershmanleeson, Juliana Cerqueira Leite & #zoeclairemiller, #marymaggic, #mattiamarzorati, Prescription Addiction Intervention Now (P.A.I.N.), #erinmriley, #pstaff, and #laurynyouden.
Kingdom of the Ill presents over 20 artists whose works draw on their lived experiences. Some of the artists identify as chronically ill or disabled and challenge the distinction between a healthy and an unhealthy body on a daily basis. The title of the exhibition references Susan Sontag's work of critical theory Illness as Metaphor (1978). The strikethrough in the word "kingdom" in the exhibition's title represents a resistance to Sontag's binary demarcation between the two "kingdoms" of the healthy and the ill. The curators argue that health and illness are not two separate worlds but rather intertwined and co-existing.
The exhibition investigates the ways in which welfare systems and commercial incentives determine healthcare, and how we question common definitions of good health. In this time of pandemic, increasing social anxiety, rising healthcare costs, increased monitoring of medical information and growing precarity among the creative class, can we still say we are truly healthy?
Kingdom of the III highlights flaws, inequities and shortcomings in the public health system that have come to the surface during the COVID-19 pandemic and observes the ways in which support networks are imagined alongside alternative methods of well-being.
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