Candice Breitz: Whiteface

Screening and talk at Filmzentrum im Rechbauerkino

10.10.2024

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Date

10.10.2024

Time

8pm - 10pm

Location

Kunsthaus Graz, Externer Ort

Meeting point

Filmzentrum im Rechbauerkino

Lecture by

Candice Breitz, David Riff (steirischer herbst)

Costs

free admission

Registration

Telefon: +43-316/8017-9200
E-Mail: info@kunsthausgraz.at

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About the
Event

In Whiteface, South African-born artist Candice Breitz explores “whiteness,” its constructedness and privileges that have come under pressure. She appropriates voices of white people talking about “whiteness” in the media and chanels them through her own white body. The perspectives Breitz has collected range from right-wing extremism and propaganda to everyday racism and the image of “good white people.”

Detached from specific individuals—who, however, remain recognizable—Breitz, in her autoethnography, focuses on the conditions of “whiteness” and examines the language with which it constructs, frames, and normalizes its power. With satirical and theatrical exaggeration, she exposes the absurdity of white people's fear of an end to their supremacy as well as the dangers of the deeply rooted fiction of race.

After the film, David Riff (steirischer herbst) and Katrin Bucher Trantow (Kunsthaus Graz) talk to the artist.

steirischer herbst

Further information

The event will take place at the Filmzentrum im Rechbauerkino, Rechbauerstrasse 6, 8010 Graz. No registration is necessary, admission is free. Reservations can be made at info@kunsthausgraz.at if you would like to secure a seat.