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1997 eröffnete die Kunsthalle Bern “Blues and the Abstract Truth”, eine Einzelausstellung des US-amerikanischen Künstlers David Hammons. Der damals 54-Jährige richtete mit sparsamen Mitteln eine “unverkäufliche” Ausstellung ein: “Die Leute sollten nicht glauben, dass man irgendetwas nach Hause nehmen könnte.” (Hammons). Im Rückblick erschließen sich weitere Bedeutungen dieser Ausstellung, die im Moment des Besuchs vor allem durch ihre Atmosphäre beeindruckte, wie Daniel Baumann schreibt.
When the Vienna Actionists urinated, masturbated, and vomited at an event titled “Art and Revolution” in Vienna University’s Lecture Hall 1 in 1968, the proceedings were accompanied by a lecture on the relationship between speech and thought by the then thirty-two-year-old Oswald Wiener. One year later his literary montage die verbesserung von mitteleuropa, roman (the improvement of central europe, a novel) was published. With its excurses on linguistics and cybernetics, it now reads as an astonishing foreshadowing of the Internet and virtual reality. Later, Wiener turned to the figure of the dandy, who maintains his difference from machines by cultivating a practice of self-observation. Hans-Christian Dany visited him at his home in southeast Austria to talk about the peculiar standstill of art and science in the digital age.
