CONT3XT.NET presents: Well, Being In The Loop Gets You Ahead. (Iteration III, Progress) with Michael Kargl, Birgit Knoechl, Annja Krautgasser, Wolfgang Lehrner, Les Liens Invisibles, Lisa Rastl :: October 8-21, 2011 :: Opening: October 7; 7:00 pm :: Glockengasse No9, Vienna, Austria.

Progressive thinking and the human striving for something better, truer and more beautiful are directly coupled with the newness and uniqueness of products, services and ideas. Against this is the recognition of previous decades of unredeemed social utopias. These contradictory tendencies inevitably lead in all areas of life to pausing, adjustment and reorientation — in short, to a destabilising standstill that interrupts the chain of perception in favour of new perspectives, finally to start from the beginning again.

Starting from the idea of a loop of communicative, media and social connections, the exhibition Well, Being In The Loop Gets You Ahead. (Iteration III, Progress) presents seven artistic positions with which the idea of progressive and linear development is raised for discussion by iterative means. From within closed cycles, artists extract individual sequences of the artistic materials they use in order to problematise the perception of opposing pairs such as original and copy, high art and popular culture, art and commerce as value systems, within which art today is both produced and appreciated. The identity- and meaning-forming function of repeated sequences of action that are always the same is suspended in favour of an irritation that makes it possible to experience new forms of appreciation and — despite or precisely because of the constant re-starting — to take a step forward.