How could we envision a break in the endless succession of work and leisure that constitutes our everyday lives? And can we escape the “atrophy of experience” induced by modernity, as Walter Benjamin suggested? Perhaps contemporary artistic practice could provide an antidote to our impoverished experience, by disrupting the flow of work/leisure and the established regimes of visibility. Simultaneously a space of authenticity and inauthenticity, everyday life incorporates potentiality and play, which art can help flesh out from this double dimension of the ordinary.
The exhibition was kindly supported by: atelier13
Artists
Anca Benera&Arnold Estefan (RO), Olga Chernysheva (RU), Berry Patten (UK), Antje Peters (DE)Simina Neagu
Simina Neagu worked as assistant director for Pavilion Unicredit, Pavilion–journal for politics and culture and Bucharest Biennale 4. In 2011, she curated the exhibition Just Do It. Biopolitical Branding at Pavilion Unicredit and co-founded the curatorial collective AAA+. With AAA+ she curated a series of lectures and screenings at the Centre for Visual Introspection and participated in the project UN-education at subRahova. She wrote for several online platforms, such as Swedish Travelling Exhibitions and lectured at the First Congress of Spectral Institutions. Currently, she is completing her MA in Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London.
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