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The Elephant In The Room: Queering The KHM While Talking To The Director
Aktion, 90 min. (2022)
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
‘The Elephant in the Room' is a metaphorical idiom for an overpowering, important, or controversial topic that is personally, socially, or politically embarrassing, conflictual, or dangerous to address.
Em Schwarzwald embodies that ‘elephant in the room’ in the KHM before meeting director general Sabine Haag for a one-to-one conversation in which she shares with the director general her observations as a queer artist invited to create art within the project "Queering The KHM". Em Schwarzwald addresses her critique of the process from a queer-feminist and organisational perspective. The action starts at the little mammoth in front of the Naturhistorisches Museum - just opposite of Kunsthistorisches Museum - to point out and criticize the construction of (colonised) nature and (European) art as an opposition that is also built into the urban landscape of Vienna.
Fotos: Marisel Bogola
