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Ines Doujak
Not Dressed For Conquering
October 15, 2016 – January 15, 2017 Press conference: Friday, October 14, 2016, 11 a.m.
An exhibition by
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
Curators
Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler
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Introduction
Let’s enter the a-historical and hermetic
world of fashion to dirty its surface.
For the exhibition Ines Doujak. Not Dressed For Conquering, Württembergischer
Kunstverein temporarily assumes the guise of a fashion store – to be precise, an assortment
of various pop-up stores.
The show is based on the long-term Loomshuttles / Warpaths project by Austrian artist Ines
Doujak (*1959) that, in different forms and formats, explores the links between textiles,
fashion, colonialism, violence and globalized production conditions. It comprises Doujak’s
“eccentric archive” that focuses on the history of globalization based on textiles from the
Andean region; an open-ended series of sculptures, performances, writings and video works
along with various, constantly evolving fashion collections.
The exhibition Not Dressed For Conquering features a selection of all these elements,
reorganizing and extending them. The focus is on eight fashion collections showcased in the
specially designed pop-up stores, each following different themes and motifs. Among them,
the fire of burning factories and the burnout – in the literal sense too – of low-wage workers,
animal and human skins, carnival and masquerade, and the devil himself. Under scrutiny are
the supply chains of global trade, tightly organized by means of barcodes, automated
cranes, containers and mega ships, or the long history of degrading workers to the level of
“intelligent apes”.
The collections consist of fabrics in which the various themes and motifs are directly
inscribed and of patterns, garments, outfits and accessories derived from them, but also of
writings, publications, objects, videos and pieces of dance and music in which patterns are
transformed and translated into motion and sound.
Employing the glamour of the fashion world, Doujak not only spotlights the exploitative
structures, gender and class orders of haute couture and mass-market clothing. Harking
back to the resistant, anarchistic practices of textile design ranging from Andean weaving
traditions to Dapper Dan, the iconic New York tailor to the eighties’ hip hop scene, she
creates another, a different fashion that counteracts the status quo. This idea is also
embodied by a group of “looters” and “rioters” who act as a kind of inverted gatekeeper at
the various pop-up stores.
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This other, resistant fashion again is the focal point of a number of performances and
workshops taking place during the exhibition, combining tailoring, dance, music, film and
politics.
Performance, f i lm and song are translations in motion of the
rhythmic texti les of cultures which, using the off-beat phrasing of
music, are a vibrant visual attack where the colors must talk to
each other or l iteral ly argue. The intention is for such motion to
break the cultural paradigm in which patterns exist only within
borders, so that they may permeate the world at large.
Ines Doujak
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The Stores (selection)
HC01 FIRES: The War Against the Poor
The war against the poor whereby locked in workers with overloaded electricity circuits live
under threat of death and horrible injury by fire to fulfill skin-tight clothing contracts.
(Ines Doujak)
In the modern world technological development has made for highly sophisticated production
processes, yet which co-exist with and are co-dependent on ultra-exploitative working conditions
especially in the making of clothes … In Bangladesh in 2010, just days before yet one more fatal
factory fire, a worker was shot dead by the police for protesting at conditions in a South Korean
owned factory. In Honduras burn-out is such that only 6.3% of women have worked longer than 10
years in such factories … Textile and clothing workers have fought against their exploitation for
hundreds of years with strikes, riots and the struggle to create trade unions, knowing that only they
can change the conditions of work. In some instances fire itself has been used as a direct means of
attack against oppressive conditions. (Ines Doujak)
Exhibits: Two textile prints as bolts; shirts, trousers as samples on ladder; video (of a performance); hand-out (on
what happened after the Karachi fire); audio-interview with Chun Soonok …
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HC 02 DIRTY SECRETS: Tradition
Good Marks for Social Cohesion, Bad When it Resists Enclosure of the Common. Inside the
clean-cut Black Square the dirty secret of a thousand years of textile patterns. (Ines Doujak)
Exhibits: Scarves; ponchos; 8 booklets and a historical display with the inscription: “Lest. Verbreitet gute
Schriften (Read! Spread Good Writings!); poster; knitted pull-over …
Sample (left); cover of booklet (right): pattern (bottom)
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HC 03 CARNIVAL
Where Masterless Voices Sing Songs in the Dark of Unforgiving Joy, the Masters’ Voice
Falters. (Ines Doujak)
Exhibits: Video (with John Barker); body suits; masks; partly produced with the support of the São Paulo Biennial
Ines Doujak / John Barker, A Mask is Always Active, video, 2014
HC 04 TRANSPORT
Chains of Lean Retailing, their Wheels Oiled by Bar Codes and Human load Carriers …
(Ines Doujak)
Exhibits: Textile print; necklaces; bags …
Cloth (detail)
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HC 05 APES, KRIMINALAFFE: Why Are Things As They Are?
When Paradise was lost to men and women, the Ape stayed put. In captivity the lazy rascal
must work for his supper, and asks: Why Are Things As they Are? (Ines Doujak)
“F.W. Taylor's Principles of Scientific Management was published in 1903. In it, he describes a worker
both as an 'intelligent gorilla' and – unwittingly endorsing the worker-gorilla's intelligence – as one
who "deliberately plans to do as little as he safely can." Nine years later in 1912, the Prussian
Academy of Sciences opened a station on Tenerife devoted to experimentation with the ‘mental
capacities’ of apes, and especially chimpanzees. Tenerife itself was the last of the Canary Islands to
be conquered by the Spanish in 1496. Half the indigenous population sided with the invaders, the
others in the north of the island resisted and, when finally defeated, were enslaved to work on
sugarcane plantations – a laboratory for colonial capitalism. It was chosen as a location for the station
because of its climate and because of its proximity to Cameroon, then a German colony, from where
nine chimpanzees were captured and transported over the sea. It became famous for the
‘experiments’ of psychologist Wolfgang Koehler. He has been acclaimed as a co-founder of Gestalt
theory, for offering an alternative to the behaviourism of Pavlov and Thorndike and as anti-Nazi, but
he also laid some groundwork for an instrumentalized psychology of work …”
(From: Ines Doujak, John Barker: “Kriminalaffe: Sultan at the Dole Office”,
see: http://continentcontinent.cc/index.php/continent/article/view/214)
Exhibits: Textile prints; Dapper Dan outfits; sweat suit; sculpture; …
Performance, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HWK), Berlin, 2015 Dapper Dan, iconic tailor of the 1980ies, who
created the outfits of the hip-hop-scene
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HC 06 THE DEVIL
The devil opens a night school in Kyiv to teach the secrets of success and failure. The curriculum
includes the uses of drugs in war, the war against drugs, drugs as war and the drug of war. This
wandering school will made its first stops in Ukraine and Spain, where the crises are acute and
provide stark examples of the forces of profit as violence and the resultant break-downs. The artists
use the figure of the devil and its many names and guises to dramatize and amalgamate the
businesses of war and drugs. A movable tent with a specially designed and printed cloth on which
there are horses, rotting grapes and close-up charred wood becomes the devil’s night school
location. As a start the devil will offer two types of drug: heroin, as a legacy to the world from the
wars in Vietnam and then Afghanistan, and crystal meth. (Ines Doujak)
Exhibits: Video (30’, produced with the support of the Kyiv Biennial); devil film costumes; umbrellas made of
blood polka dot pattern; drug film costumes …
Ines Doujak, John Barker, The Devil Opens a Night School to Teach the Secrets of Success and Failure, 2015, video
Ines Doujak, John Barker, The Devil Opens a Night School to Teach the Tent / „Pop-Up Store” Secrets of Success and Failure, 2015, video
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HC 07 AQUA VIVA: What Forms the Outside of the Inside?
Exhibitis: Collages, outfits; 2 textile prints
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Program
Friday, October 14, 2016, 7 p.m.
OPENING
With Klub Mutti: Fashion Show
Fashion icon and ‘it-girl’ Mara Gheddon presents the current ‘must-haves’ of the season. She speaks
about fashion and other circumstances. A Swabian in exile, she is interested in handicrafts and gender
bending.
Saturday, October 15, 2016
2–6 p.m.
WORKSHOP
Re-clothed
With Alessandro Marques, Pablo Lafuente
For this workshop, Marques and Lafuente will propose to explore, together with the participants,
clothing that extends the body and connects it to other bodies. The four-hour workshop will involve the
joint conception and construction of a series of outfits. On focus here is the collective process that
includes also the engagement in a series of dance moves.
Alessandro Marques: Designer, São Paulo
Pablo Lafuente: Writer, teacher and curator, Porto Seguro, Bahia, São Paulo
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Language: English; Limited number of participants
Application required until October 10, 2016
Info + registration:
Barbara Mocko, [email protected], Fon: +49 (0)711 - 22 33 713
Participation fee: 15 Euro; reduced and WKV members: 7,50 Euro
7 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
What Inside Forms An Outside
And What Is The Space In Between?
With John Barker, Ornella de Bakel, Ines Doujak
What inside forms an outside and what is the space in between? We will talk of the substance ergot and
one of its alkaloids LSD as freeing consciousness from neuro gatekeepers, of the skin as more than a
container, and of disgust as an emotional and political barrier.
John Barker: Fiction writer, essayist, performer, political activist, Vienna, London
Ines Doujak: Artist, Vienna, London
Ornella de Bakel: Artist, dragqueen, Vienna
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Language: German, English
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Thursday, November 24, 2016, 7 p.m.
PANEL DISCUSSION (in German language)
Burn Out. Deadly Fire. Four Years, No Justice
With Thomas Seibert (medicointernational), Miriam Saage-Maaß (ECCHR), a.o.
In collaboration with Terre des Hommes
Saturday, November 26, 2016, 2– 5 p.m.
SEMINAR
Lost and Found
With John Barker, Ines Doujak, Evelyn Steinthaler
As a last resort, mothers in 18th century London who could not support their children hoped to win a
place for them at the Foundling Hospital* determined by a lottery system. Instead of identity papers
they left an individual piece of cloth. Now, parents in war zones have a similar hope for their children to
find refuge in Europe. Too many disappear in the process despite the heavily monitored world in which
we live. We would like you to join us to search individual fates of unaccompanied minors in a time of
desperation and need, and examining the economics of desperation.
Evelyn Steinthaler: Writer, editor, producer, performer, translator, Vienna
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Language: German, English
Sunday, January 15, 2017, 6 p.m.
FINISSAGE + BOOK LAUNCH
Eccentric Archive
With John Barker, Ines Doujak a.o.
Language: English
GUIDED TOURS
Curator’s tours
Language: German
Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 7 p.m.
Sunday, January 15, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Free guided tours
Language: German
Each sunday, 3 p.m.
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Biography
Ines Doujak
* 1959 in Klagenfurt, l ives in Vienna and London
Solo exhibit ions (selection)
Johann Jacobs Museum Zurich (2015); Galerie Krobath, Vienna (2007); Salzburger Kunstverein (2005); Wiener
Secession, Vienna (2002)
Group Solo exhibit ions (selection)
2016 Peace-Treaty, San Sebastian (Cultural Capital); Sans peau / No Skin, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Montreal, QC
2015 School of Kiev, Kiew-Biennale; Creating Common Good, KunstHaus Vienna; All Men Become Sisters,
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz; The Beast and is the Sovereign, MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani Barcelona),
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart; Social Glitch, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna; Utopian Pulse –
Flares In The Darkroom, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Wow! Woven? Entering the (sub)Textiles,
Künstlerhaus. Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz; Share – Too Much History, More Future, Museum of
Contemporary Art Banja Luka, Banja Luka
2014 Ejemplos a seguir! Expediciones en estética y sostenibilidad, Museo Metropolitano de Lima, Lima; Share –
Too Much History, More Future, MMKK, Klagenfurt; Utopian Pulse – Flares In The Darkroom, Wiener Secession,
Vienna; 31ª São Paulo Biennale; Punctum. Bemerkungen zur Photographie, Salzburger Kunstverein; Zur
Nachahmung empfohlen. Expeditionen in Ästhetik und Nachhaltigkeit, Zollverein, Essen; Ten Million Rooms of
Yearning Sex in Hong Kong, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
2012 re.act.feminism #2. A Performing Archive: Fundación Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; Museet for Samtidskunst,
Roskilde; Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb; Acts of Voicing, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart; Busan
Biennale 2012, Busan, South Korea; Reflecting Fashion. Kunst und Mode seit der Moderne, Museum Moderner
Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, MUMOK, Vienna
2013 ¡Ejemplos a seguir! Exploraciones en estética y sustentabilidad, Capilla del Arte, Puebla; 54th October
Salon. No one belongs here more than you, Belgrade Cultural Center, Belgrade; Acts of Voicing, Total Museum
of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2010 Principio Potosí: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin;
Museo Nacional de Arte La Paz, Bolivien; Triennale Linz 1.0. Gegenwartskunst in Österreich, Lentos
Kunstmuseum Linz
2008 Peripheral Vision and Collective Body, MUSEION, Bozen
2007 documenta 12, Kassel
2004 Be What You Want, But Stay Where You Are, Witte de With, Rotterdam; Die Regierung. Paradiesische
Handlungsräume, Secession, Vienna
2003 How Do We Want to be Governed?, MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani Barcelona; Being in the World,
Miami Art Central, Miami
2000 Dinge, die wir nicht verstehen, Generali Foundation, Vienna
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Dates and Credits
EXHIBITION
Ines Doujak
Not Dressed For Conquering
October 15, 2016 – January 15, 2017
An exhibition by
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
Curators
Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler
Supported by
Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst des Landes Baden-Württemberg
Kulturamt der Stadt Stuttgart
Innovationspreis des Landes Baden-Württemberg
Stiftung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
Bundeskanzleramt Österreich
Péter Horváth-Stiftung
Wüstenrot Stiftung
Marli Hoppe-Ritter-Stiftung zur Förderung der Kunst
Bonnie, Stuttgart
Pro Lab, Stuttgart
Media partner (Program)
Jungle World
PRESS
Press conference
Friday, October 14, 2016, 11 a.m.
Press contact
Barbara Mocko
Fon: +49 (0)711 - 22 33 713
Press pictures and -dossier
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