Opening The Myth of Normal. Chronic Contradictions

08.05.2024 20:00
Opening The Myth of Normal. Chronic Contradictions

for ‘health’ is an entire symbol. of no fixed meaning a vulgar
phenomenon which moves through the ongoing days in the
latest stage of this capitalist age in which medicine moves like
money through the air where the antiseptics of the medical-
industrial factory reside. in this data I dissolve feeling. we are
mountains turned upside down for gold. as information
equates to collecting abstractions of the first person…
 

—Cat Chong, When Health Becomes Available (2024)

We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition The Myth of Normal. Chronic Contradictions. The group exhibition explores the standards of ‘normalcy’ within health and societal expectations, drawing inspiration from the work of Dr. Gabor Maté, a renowned figure in the study of trauma.
 

Reception & Opening:
Gerda Ridler, President of the Salzburger Kunstverein
Mirela Baciak, Director of the Salzburger Kunstverein
Christoph Platz-Gallus, Director of Kunstverein Hannover

21:30
Reading by Cat Chong of her poems
When Health Becomes Available

22:00-24:00
When the Body Says Dance
DJ-Set by DIA.HRD