Programme schedule
Friday 6th of April Opening 18:00 – 18:30 A home is a home is a home Performance by Public Society 18:45 – 19:00 Frank Sinatra is Also the Name of a Bird Teaser Performance by Maria Lepistö (SE) 19:00 Introduction and welcome by Precart Collective and Underbanen 20:00 – 20:15 Tiny pieces of brown plastic once wrapped around your index finger Performance by Flurina Casty (CH) A journey into presence Ongoing performance by Mariana Bolano (GR) Saturday 7th of April Public Program with Performances 11:00 – 13:30 A soup for heating up the soul Performance by David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo (CO) 13:30 – 13:45 Tiny pieces of brown plastic once wrapped around your index finger Performance by Flurina Casty (CH) 14:00 – 14:45 Presentation of the project “States of Desire” + discussion with artists in the exhibition about art and research Precart Collective and workshop participants present 15:00 – 15:30 Join a Socratic Dialogue Facilitated by Kristian M. Meyer Friday 13th of April 19:30 – 21:30 Screening of The Unbearable Likeness of Being and presentation by Eline Tsvetkova (NL/BG) Frank Sinatra is Also the Name of a Bird Performance by Maria Lepistö (SE) 23:47 – 00:00 Midnight Performance by Carmen Csilla Medina (HU/CU) Saturday 21st of April Finissage Mosaic #3 Ongoing performance by Mads Floor Andersen (DK) 12:00 and 14:00 Midnight Performance by Carmen Csilla Medina (HU/CU) Please follow Underbanen for more updates on the project in relation to the exhibition in Copenhagen (DK). |
States of Desire
Desire is a sentiment that is individually experienced and collectively felt. As a word it can express many different emotions in a variety of circumstances. It can come out of a feeling of love, it can create empathy, a romantic feeling of longing, an urge to be free, it can motivate, turn to obsession, lack of control, make us into brainless consumers and hopeless addicts. Desire is something that drives us in all directions, but it drives us in every aspect of life—from the most private to the most public. Since the beginning of the last century desire has become a key element in controlling modern day society and to keep the wheel turning. Psychology has severely changed the idea of desire from being the result of a diabolical possession understanding it as a natural human drive, which cannot be suppressed and therefore can be answered to. Are we nowadays on a never ending quest for fulfillment with a whole market economy working around this purpose? Project of art and research Stretching over a long period of time the Precart Collective undertakes an investigation with the aim of gathering material and creating works (artworks, publications, interventions, workshops, events, etc.) on the various states of desire within the personal vs. the societal, and the culturally dependent connotation of its definition. For "Don't turn the light on" we made an open call for people situated in Copenhagen to join workshop days to create the exhibition together. Both people with defined works and vague ideas joined the process. The aim of the workshop leading up to the exhibition was the following:
This investigation is made through the Precart Collective across time and location. The first chapter of the project will take form of a curated exhibition with the title “Don’t turn the light on” and is featured in Copenhagen (DK). |