Scrambled Ontologies: A Fabulation
Group show curated by Victoria Tarak

feat. Yalda Afsah, Mary Bauermeister, Grupo Mexa, Jaca, Sharon Kivland, Zoe Leonard, Jorge Loureiro, A.L. Steiner + robbinschilds, Anna R. Winder

Scrambled Ontologies: A Fabulation is a group exhibition based on critical engagement with current research on “wildness” from Jack Halberstam, Tavia Nyongo, and José Esteban Muñoz. In here, the term "wildness" seeks to capture new perspectives of polyphony and solidarity beyond capitalist, colonialist, and heteronormative structures. “Wildness” does not refer to a return of an alleged primitivism or a colonial imaginary, but rather, negotiates meanings and representations by proposing a “disorder of things” (1) . The ideas around “wildness” are concerned with reclaiming a myriad of agencies and mean to enable reflections on aesthetic experience that encounter the unspeakable, wayward or unscripted actions, engagement in the margins or within unstable everyday realities.

Although seemingly intangible,“space” and “time”, just like modes of being and action, aim to be mastered by systems of order and classification. In analogy with human-nature relations, these processes of appropriation can be understood as “domestication”, thus, an attempt to tame and regulate. In search of liberation and contradictory or ambivalent approaches to these entities, the exhibition spans a fictional web of perspectives and treatments, proposing alternatives to prevailing regimes of space and time.