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SOPHIE TAPPEINER curated by Lisa Long
„PUT A SOCK IN IT!“

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SOPHIE TAPPEINER, An der Hülben 3, 1010 Vienna
www.sophietappeiner.com

Curator(s):

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Lisa Long is a curator at the Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin. Her last projects at JSC include the exhibition A Fire In My Belly and the year-long program horizontal vertigo. Long is a co-founder of the feminist initiative And She Was Like: BÄM! and the collaborative project Companion Studies.
Courtesy of Lisa Long

Artist(s):

  • Zuzanna Czebatul
  • Melanie Jame Wolf
  • Ebecho Muslimova
  • Jesse Darling
  • Liesl Raff
  • Reba Maybury

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PUT A SOCK IN IT! explores the relationships between comedy, power, ethics, sexuality, and desire, coming to the conclusion that comedy produces spaces of disidentification, and that it can turn hegemony on its head by never upholding the status quo. Afterall, who and what is considered funny or what is seen as humorless is defined by structural hierarchies. Why is one told to put a sock in it? You’ll either get it, or you won’t.

 

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