Ubu LeninRainer Ganahl
| Nov ’09 |
| 13 |
| 9:30 pm |
The fact that Lenin was a participating dadaist in Zurich – though in disguise — served as a pretext for New York based artist Rainer Ganahl to rewrite the original Ubu play as Ubulenin. Ganahl added some recent regulators over ubuesque investment schemes.
Rainer Ganahl is a New-York based Austrian born artist.From 1986 until 1991, he studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He was a member of the 1990/91 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York. His best known work, S/L (Seminars/Lectures), is an ongoing series of photographs, begun in 1995, of well-known cultural critics addressing audiences. Rainer Ganahl represented Austria at the 1999 Venice Biennale.
Co-presented by the Swiss Institute-Contemporary Art and Performa.
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