aCtivaTe aMok, not a causaL chAin, a solo exhibition by Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová

Waterside Contemporary is pleased to present aCtivaTe aMok, not a causaL chAin, a solo exhibition by Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, their first in the UK.

Encompassing installation, video, text and performance, Chişa and Tkáčová’s work re-configures and unsettles established social and political power structures, to allow for a notion of alternative world orders. Bringing together ideas from disparate sources, the duo expose cracks in our habitual formulations of power, value, gender or political desire. The artists’ collaboration itself is a constant mixing of the individual selves to create a new temporary entity.

The rules governing Chişa’s and Tkáčová’s work – and indeed their on-screen personae – are often pastiches of well-practiced social and political norms. In re-staging and over-acting, the duo find an absurdity intrinsic in contemporary attempts at creating illusion of polycratic balance.