{"id":1555,"date":"2025-10-16T05:19:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gabrieleedlbauer.net\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2026-01-06T13:35:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:35:30","slug":"the-last-hurrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gabrieleedlbauer.net\/?p=1555","title":{"rendered":"The Last Hurrah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gabriele Edlbauer &amp; Julia S. Goodman<br>October 21st &amp; 30th 2025, Vienna<br>photos by Thomas Brandstetter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>scroll down for German<\/em><br><br><strong> On the Necessity of Disposal<\/strong><br>text by Andrea Kopranovic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disposal is not a symbolic gesture, but a real act that is unwanted and yet necessary. The economic constraints of late capitalist dystopia, in which storage space, material costs, and living expenses often reduced to a bare minimum due to a lack of income, require radical measures. The consequence: contrary to Marie Kondo&#8217;s unrealistic claim, in order to make room for new things, we must also and especially let go of those that bring us joy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As artists, teachers, and art audience, Julia S. Goodman and Gabriele Edlbauer are inevitably part of the real political economic landscape as well as the specific system of the art economy. If we follow Andrea Fraser&#8217;s <em>The Field of Contemporary Art: A Diagram<\/em> (2024), which depicts the fragmentation of the art world into increasingly autonomous sub-areas, we become aware of the evaluation criteria of this frayed system without it losing any of its opacity: values, resources, and claims to power lack transparency and present all actors in their gravitational field with ever new challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With <em>The Last Hurrah<\/em>, Goodman and Edlbauer cross a threshold with humor, courage, pain, and doubt. In a performative inventory, a mindfulness exercise in letting go of many oversized and heavy sculptural works, they invite viewers to join them on a journey with an uncertain outcome. Carefully unpacked, even more carefully positioned in a dumpster, and stripped of any control, the artists place selected works from recent years in a garbage container in a parking spot on the streets of Ottakring\u2014and leave them to their fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is primarily a question of temporality: what is in demand at this moment in time, in this place, under these circumstances? What has the potential to remain relevant in the future and is worth storing permanently in a stable climate, well packaged? What is sufficient for us in a diminished existence as an image, and once seen, should it be preserved for posterity only through an exhibition view or sheer retelling? Do prestige, fame, and desire manifest themselves sustainably through retelling, which presupposes exclusivity and FOMO? Is the Sword of Damocles of the disposal clever self-marketing and does it generate enough attention to prevent destruction? Or is it a failure of art, of artists, of the art system, which is aestheticized here but also thematized as public shame? <em>The Last Hurrah<\/em> is all of these things and, above all, one thing: a space that raises questions about the conditions of production, exhibition, and storage of art, while also critically examining the romanticized myth-making of meaning generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Deutsch<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> \u00dcber die Notwendigkeit der Entsorgung (On the Necessity of Disposal)<\/strong><br> Andrea Kopranovic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Entsorgung ist keine symbolische Geste, sondern ein realer Akt, der ungewollt aber notwendig ist. Denn \u00f6konomische Zw\u00e4nge der sp\u00e4tkapitalistischen Dystopie, in dem Lagerplatz, Materialkosten und Lebensfinanzierung aufgrund ausbleibender Einnahmen oft auf ein kahles Minimum beschr\u00e4nkt sind, erfordern radikale Ma\u00dfnahmen. Die Konsequenz: Um Platz f\u00fcr Neues zu schaffen muss entgegnen einem unrealistischen Marie Kondo-Anspruch auch und besonders das gehen, das Freude verschafft.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Julias S. Goodman und Gabriele Edlbauer sind als K\u00fcnstlerinnen, Lehrende und Kunstpublikum unweigerlich Teil der realpolitischen \u00f6konomischen Landschaft genauso wie des spezifischen Systems der Kunst\u00f6konomie. Folgen wir Andrea Frasers <em>The Field of Contemporary Art: A Diagram<\/em> (2024), das die Fragmentierung der Kunstwelt in zunehmend autonome Teilbereiche darstellt, werden uns die Bewertungskriterien dieses ausgefransten Systems bewusst, ohne, dass dieses an Opazit\u00e4t verliert: Werte, Ressourcen und Machtanspr\u00fcche entbehren der Transparenz und stellen alle Akteur*innen in ihrem Gravitationsfeld vor immer neue Herausforderungen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goodman und Edlbauer begeben sich mit <em>The Last Hurrah<\/em> an eine Schwelle, die sie mit Humor, Mut, Schmerz und Zweifel \u00fcbertreten. In einer performativen Bestandsaufnahme, einer Achtsamkeits\u00fcbung im Loslassen vieler \u00fcbergro\u00dfer und \u00fcberschwerer skulpturaler Arbeiten, fordern sie die Bertrachter*innen auf, sich mit ihnen gemeinsam auf eine Reise mit ungewissem Ausgang zu begeben. Sorgf\u00e4ltig ausgepackt, noch sorgf\u00e4ltiger in eine Mulde gelegt und jeder eigenen Kontrolle entledigt, platzieren die K\u00fcnstlerinnen ausgew\u00e4hlte Arbeiten der vergangenen Jahre in einer Mulde in einer Parkbucht in den Stra\u00dfen Ottakrings \u2013 und \u00fcberlassen sie ihrem Schicksal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dabei geht es vor allem um Temporalit\u00e4ten: Was ist in diesem Moment in der Zeit, an diesem Ort, unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden gefragt? Was hat Potenzial, auch k\u00fcnftig Relevanz zu besitzen und ist es wert, gut verpackt in stabilem Klima permanent gelagert zu werden? Was gen\u00fcgt uns in einer abgeschw\u00e4chten Existenz als Abbild und soll einmal gesehen der Nachwelt nur durch eine Ausstellungsansicht oder durch schiere Nacherz\u00e4hlung erhalten blieben? Manifestieren sich Ansehen, Ruhm und Sehnsucht nachhaltig durch die Nacherz\u00e4hlung, die Exklusivit\u00e4t und FOMO voraussetzt? Ist das Damoklesschwert der Entsorgung kluges Selbstmarketing und generiert gen\u00fcgend Aufmerksamkeit, um die Zerst\u00f6rung zu verhindern? 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