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AFTER 


Presented within the group exhibition The Day After (EDUCULT, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, 2024), AFTER is a performative speech positioned between ritual, rhetoric, and resistance. The work confronts the condition of contemporary democracy and its linguistic distortions — how meaning erodes in public discourse and how public speech itself becomes an obligation or a reason for banishment.

With self-made masks that both conceal and amplify, the performance delivers a speech oscillating between irony and urgency, critique and confession. AFTER continues an ongoing exploration of performative language as a political and poetic medium.



The piece concludes with Das demokratische Lied — a song with a chorus of Bitte Danke (Please and Thanks) — a hymn to “democratic” politeness and the end of real dialogue.


Location: Raum D, MuseumsQuartier Wien
Curator: Osama Zatar

Stills from videos by estherartnewsletter.com
Song: Das demokratische Lied by Milan Mijalkovic and Gaffa Galaktika
Poster: Konservative Kunst © Armina Hatic + Mäuler © Milan Mijalkovic
2024



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