Catch Me! Geschwindigkeit fassen

The group exhibition Catch Me! and this accompanying catalogue deal with the phenomenon of acceleration - the personal experience of speed relative to time and space. The selected works by artists such as Daniel Hafner, Anri Sala, Roman Signer, Ed Ruscha, Lisi Raskin and Markus Wilfling are about the fascination of the heightened situation, the thrill of acceleration or the intoxication of speed. Speed as an experienceable phenomena is either excessive and idealised or - as in Paul Virilio's formative text Polar Inertia, which, in a sense, forms the foundation of the theoretical discourse of the exhibition - problematized and nigh on doomed. Beginning with the piece High-Speed Gardening by Ed Ruscha, the exhibition represents the attempt to choreograph a group works and as such, Catch Me! is a libretto to the layout of the exhibition space. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Catch Me! Grasping Speed at Kunsthaus Graz, February - April 2010. English and German text.