"Contact, a poetry of exportation, of assimilating the other" presented in the exhibition cycle “Reinventing the possible, activate the imaginable: Is all this a possibility?”
Summary
"Contact, a poetry of exportation, of assimilating the other" deals with the negative politics of touch, the political implications of a societal shift from manual labour to abstract communicational and semiotic production.
Supported by
Wallenberg Stipendier
Description of project
“Is all this a possibility?” was the 3rd instalment of the exhibition “Reinventing the possible, activate the imaginable” curated by Juan Luis Toboso, for the Centre del Carme (Valencia, ES).
The curated concept for “Reinventing the possible, activate the imaginable” concerns strategies and possibilities of futures, under Felix Guattari’s comprehension of the contemporary way of life, and of subjectivity, as processes which integrity was structurally jeopardized at a mental, social, ecological level.
The exhibition “Is all this a possibility?” to paraphrase the curator, explored desire not only in the social field but also in our own construction as individuals, in order to think about the importance of a series of small gestures, minimal actions, delicate movements ... and, through them construct new imaginary bodies institutes a new territory that flourishes and transforms the social, the political and the environmental fields.
For the exhibition is this all a possibility?, the curator asked me to develop a series of poems-poster in dialogue with the remaining works in the exhibition, thus mediating the different works as unity while producing an individual approach to poetry as a politics of touch.
The poem-poster series "Contact, a poetry of exportation, of assimilating the other" presented five poem-posters approaching the capacity to enter in con-tact (literally meaning with (con) touch (tangere)), not only in the sense of a contamination, of intimacy and power, but also, of contact as social object.
Type of work
Curated exhibition
Published in
Centre del carme - Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana
Link to web site
http://www.theandrealves.com/index.php?/works/-supone-todo-esto-una-posibilidad/
https://www.elperiodic.com/valencia/noticias/553564_centre-carme-muestra-capacidad-transformadora-amor.html
http://www.arte10.com/a10tv/tormo-marin-jeleton-_i522.html
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Date
2018-03-08Creator
Alves, André
Keywords
Poetry
desensitisation
labour critique
alienation
Publication type
artistic work