Talk 20.06.23, 18:00 - 20:00 Hauptraum Entry: Free

Echoraum

Leaking Vessels - Elke Auer

Together we want to visit, discuss, criticize and enjoy Elke Auers solo show LEAKING VESSELS.
"The exhibition negotiates gendered speech shame and the accompanying sense of powerlessness. It highlights continuities in the reception and pathologization of female tongues from Greek mythology to the present day and finds inspiration for self-empowerment in Neolithic times."

Admission free, but limited.

  • Registration requested at: waitschacher@forumstadstpark.at

Representations of women as leaky vessels – leaking vocally, emotionally, and sexually; wet,
unstable, and unable to contain themselves – recur throughout (Western) cultural history. These
motifs lie in direct contrast to the dry stability and verbal continence of “man”. But even a dried
clay vessel, once filled with water, will eventually break and become soft, malleable dirt again – a
lesson in the dissolution of rigid forms.

Leaking Vessels - Elke Auer