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Moussa Kone / Oliver Laric / 李松松 Li Songsong / Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair / Joseph Smith [The Book of Mormon 摩尔门经] / 王霽昕 Wang Jixin / Markus Proschek



The Eschaton Reviewed: tomorrow is another day
Eschatology(from the Greek eschaton meaning “last”) is a part of theology, physics, philosophy, and futurology concerned with what are believed to be the final events of history, the ultimate destiny of humanity , commonly referred to as the “end of the world” or “end time”.
This linear concept of history dominated and still dominates most ideologies and political religions, as the conservative American philosopher Eric Voeglin argues. He criticizes, that they try to adapt the transcendent concept of “end time” and “the heaven on earth” onto reality (“immanentize the eschaton”). One could oppose to him the fact, that in a century, where humankind has reached the potential to destroy itself and all its resources, concepts of an actively formed history and its future performance become necessary and relevant again.
The end of history is not yet reached, postmodernism has already become an episode. Therefore history becomes a field of action, the possibility to define ones position and direction out of retrospective.
The exhibition features artistic positions, which use historic material and relicts as a starting point for their work. Throughout this process it becomes visible, that history can never be finished, because it is permanently constructed from the present. “-From today’s point of view did not exist back then.”


末世论批判:明天是新的一天
末世论(源自于希腊语eschaton,意 谓“末后”)是神学、物理学、哲学和 未来学的一个部分,关注什么是历史的 终结,人类终极命运这类问题。通常也 被称为“世界末日”和“时间终结”。
保守的美国哲学家埃里克·沃尔 格林认为,这种线性的历史概念一直以 来主导着大多数意识形态和政治宗教领 域。他批评道,人们试着把“时间终 结”和“人间天国”这样的先验概念解 释成真实不虚的事实(末世说内在化)。
但是可以用一个事实来反驳这个观点, 那就是人类几乎在一个世纪里就差点毁 灭自身及所有资源。因此一个积极的历 史衍变观念及其未来的表现变得至关重 要。历史的终结还没有到来,后现代主 义已经变成了一个插曲。因此历史变成 了一个行动的领域,在这个领域里,个 人的立场和追溯方向的规定是可能的。
此次展览展出重点是艺术的立场, 这些作品通过使用历史的材料和遗物作 为它们的出发点。整个过程清楚的显现 出,历史不可能被终结,因为它永远都 是在当下被建构。 “从今天的角度来看,过去并不存在.”