Debt affects many aspects of our lives and shapes our socio-economic relationships. But where and how do debt economies materialize in cultural, local and global, individual and collective relationships? This and other questions will be explored in the exhibition Unsettling Matters of Interest, which will be on view at the GAK from May onwards. As a prologue to the exhibition, the GAK invites to a performance by Lili Huston-Herterich and a reading by Miriam Stoney. Both artists will also be represented with works in Unsettling Matters of Interest.
The performance Let Me Tell You About This Shoe positions the presentation of artistic research and work as gift-giving. Huston-Herterich uses humour as a vehicle to propose modes of artistic, learning, and citation practices that challenge the illusion of an untethered individual, enforced by neoliberal mantras for independent labour and success with an origin in colonial exploitation and social oppression. Lili Huston-Herterich (*1988) works in various media to explore the relationships between her surroundings, history and people.
In her text Debt Verses, Miriam Stoney reflects on the concept and the various dimensions of “debt”, on its effects on the self-image and on relations in the context of class and spatio-temporal situatedness between past, present and future. Miriam Stoney (*1994) is a writer, artist and performer. Her artistic practice is mostly collaborative and text-based, but also includes performance, audio and installation.