CSA space presents:

Gordon Winiemko

They Came Together to Perform Heroic Gestures (in the manner that was meaningful to them)
Exhibition Jan 30th, - March 06, 2021

"I’ve never been so disappointed to find that my work is timely or relevant"
Gordon Winiemko January, 6, 2020

Through the juxtaposition of two milieus (which already have some points of overlap), Winiemko frames political protest as a performative spectacle and the assumption of the guise of a costumed hero as political. In this way, Winiemko’s work presages and illuminates the storming of the Washington Capitol by a costumed hoard of would-be “cospatriots.”

Winiemko’s practice is an exploration of the relationship of the personal to the public, of the construction of subjectivity in relation to the cultural framework — those “things we do” whether they be institutionalized to the idiosyncratic, which can be so commonplace that we often forget how they shape our lives, for better or worse. Winiemko fluidly moves between mediums, often taking on the role of performer both to use the figure the artist as a signifier of subjectivity and to perform those “things we do,” often in ways that subvert those practices or re-present them in the form of interruption or intervention.

Collaboration is an important part of Winiemko’s practice as a means to foreground and model social interaction, inviting the public at large to participate in the re-examination of otherwise transparent social structures. The moving image and the screen and the outsized role both play in the construction and dissemination of cultural frameworks is a central focus of Winiemko’s practice. By framing performative actions and social interactions within the screen and by appropriating and remixing tropes from a variety of screen-based media, Winiemko sets the stage for a discussion and examination of the social sphere.