artist talk & music
Artist Talk with Maria Hanl & Jan David Zimmermann & Music by Mehdi Chamma
Sunday, 14/04/2024, 6 pm
Venue: philomena+, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna
as part of the festival Salam Music
within the exhibition Emotional Lands
Maria Hanl, Hörst du die Musik?, detail of the installation, 2024, photo: Maria Hanl.
The exhibition Emotional Lands explores the complexity of human emotions in a rapidly changing world. What experiences trigger feelings? What causes our feelings to change? The artists Maria Hanl (Vienna) and Ziad Naitaddi (Salé) explore these questions and look at the topic of migration and political manipulation from their own perspective.
In her work for the exhibition Emotional Lands Maria Hanl addresses the tension between the individual and society. She is interested in people as social and emotional beings who always relate to a community in their existence. This characteristic makes not only the individual but also entire collectives vulnerable and susceptible to manipulation. Based on Gustave Le Bon’s “Psychology of the Masses”, she examines the influence over emotions as an instrument of power.
In discussion with philosopher Jan David Zimmermann, Maria Hanl provides insights into her working methods and discusses the instrumentalisation and manipulation of emotions.
artists
MEHDI CHAMMA
Mehdi Chamma, a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter from Morocco, draws his inspiration from a variety of musical genres - Gnawa music, blues, jazz, rock, traditional Arabic music. His warm guitar and guembri sound as well as his original music and lyrics characterise his musical universe. Mehdi Chamma – guembri, guitar, vocals
MARIA HANL
(*1969 in Gallneukirchen, lives and works in Vienna) explores human conditionalities from a constantly changing perspective and is interested in the relationship between subjects and objects and the spaces that unfold through these connections. She is less interested in conditions than in the constant changes that are inscribed in every living organism. Maria Hanl graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna and the Slade School of Fine Art, London, as well as studying education, special needs education and physical education at the University of Vienna and has participated in countless exhibitions in Austria and abroad.
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