WHAT
A text, a photography, an object, what you can imagine HOW Write what you intend to contribute with in the box below or email longer documents to to [email protected] |
WHO
We encourage everyone who have valuable reflections. Everyone can contribute. We all have valuable knowledge! WHEN The deadline for submitting is the 26th of March 2018. |
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? Where is this never-ending quest for fulfillment coming from? What value does it play in our societies and individual lives? What are the states of desire? |
Contribute to the project! Over the next few years, Precart Collective undertakes an independent investigation across time and borders, organizing exhibitions with local artist and researchers in different cities (Copenhagen, Zürich, Amsterdam, Sofia). The aim is to gather material and create 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 the event happening in April we invite people situated in and around Copenhagen to make a knowledge contributions under the title “STATES OF DESIRE”. We encourage creativity and free thinking! Everyone who contributes to the project will be invited to participate in a four day creative workshop on artistic research in the first week of April, and the best contributions will become part of the travelling exhibition and common art and research project facilitated by Precart and will be present in further editions in other countries. We encourage you to contribute also if you cannot make it for the Workshop Days. The more inputs we get, the better. |
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The Workshop Days - April 2, 3, 4, 5 The Precart Collective has organized four days of investigative workshops prior to the exhibition “Don’t turn the light on”. Each day is dedicated to a particular focus and will have inputs from the different members of the collective based on their own artistic and investigative practice. We will explore questions regarding desire in a rhetoric and performative manner. Participants will need to bring an object that represents their idea of desire. In order to talk about desire we want to look at it as an object, and understand it as an entity extracted from a sensational realm into a physical manifestation. We aim to form a dialogue regarding this topic and turn our exploration into a visual outcome in the end of the workshop, which will be part of the exhibition. This is collaborative project in which the participants will create something together as a group, share and assemble individual ideas and present it to the public—be it performative and time-based, a happening, installation, poster, zine etc. This workshop is for you if you ...Have an interest in reflecting on different aspects and impacts of desire (relating from a socio-political, psychological, artistic and economical context) ...Recognize that every individual embodies a source of knowledge, and that there is always something we can learn from the other. ...Are willing to work in a group and put aside individual endeavors for a collective purpose. ...Have self-initiative and are willing take an active role in creating the structure of the workshop. |