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'If history could be folded, where would you put the crease?', Richard Wentworth 2014
Exhibition
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS
27 Nov 2014 – 30 Nov 2014
Event times
Exhibition open 12 – 6pm
Visual/Performance Debate: 6 - 8pm, Thursday 27 November 2014
Performance Evening: 6 - 8.30pm, Friday 28 November 2014
Address
- The Function Room
- 23 Phoenix Road
- London
- NW1 1HB
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Euston, Kings Cross St. Pancras
An exhibition; a visual/performance debate; a performance evening; a roundtable discussion. With Cordelia Cembrowicz , Chris Paul Daniels, Ana Fernández Aballí-Altamirano, Ella Finer, Rose Gibbs, Marlene Haring, Olivia Hicks, Noga Inbar, Virgile Ittah, Vesta Kroese, Ratna Lachman, Ekua McMorris, Oscar Murillo, PA Skantze, Jack Tan, Nicola Thomas, Geoff Tibbs, Richard Wentworth. Curated by Jack Tan.
About
"... we have today a new cultural task: to live the inevitable with a relaxed soul. To call forth a big wave of withdrawal, of massive dissociation, of desertion from the scene of the economy, of nonparticipation in the fake show of politics … We are not going to witness a cathartic event of revolution, won’t see the sudden breakdown of state power. In the coming years, we’ll witness
a sort of revolution without a subject.”from After the Future, 2011, Franco 'Biffo' Berardi
This exhibition brings together artists who are alert to or are informed by social and political interest, and yet whose works occupy a distance to politics. The show explores this gap and asks if this ambivalence is a politically productive one and whether this dissociation in itself could be a form of resistance to the limitations of how one can be politically engaged today.
Taking Berardi's notion of “withdrawal” or to resist "with a relaxed soul", the exhibition also draws a connection between artists’ dispassion towards politics and the general disaffection with politics today.
