stretching across time and space

An exhibition about an absent object. A material, both flexible and resistant. A history of violence that stretches across time and space. A pair of shoes made of natural rubber is stored in a box in the storage of the Vienna Museum of Science and Technology. It presumably originates from the Amazon region and is currently the subject of a government-funded research project investigating the colonial history of museums. This object forms the curatorial starting point of the /ecm project: artistic positions and program contributions address the colonial implications of rubber, greenhouses, and collections, and raise questions about forced transplantation, ownership, and elastic materialities. stretching across time and space manifests an ongoing research process into the meaning of im-property and the challenges of exhibiting objects that stem from contexts of violence. Missing is the object itself – a decision against representation, towards transformation.