Sede da Juventude Cansada
Thirst/Headquarter of the fatigued youth
Summary
Sede da Juventude Cansada is a performative-reading of a dramatic script and a public forum to collectively discuss alternatives to a productivity-based capitalism.
Supported by
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto
Description of project
Sede da Juventude Cansada was enacted at Casa da Imagem Contemporânea (Gaia; PT). Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the enactment could not welcome public attendance. The performative reading took place with the 9 readers of the script only and documented in video. The forum element of the project remains unrealized.
Different intellectuals and artists contributed with questions for this forum: Karin Hansson, Dave Beech, Nina Power, Fernando José Pereira, Glenn Loughran, Oli Mould, Maria Cristina Franco Ferraz, Nuno Guedes and Nuno Ramalho.
The project seeks to be an artistic contribution to the discussion and imagination of alternatives to neoliberal debasement. The underlying question of the script concerns subjectivity in a post-work society: if work is one of the default attributes of identity, how would the disappearance of work affect how subjects perceive themselves, existentially and politically?
Type of work
Performative reading and forum
Published in
Casa da Imagem Contemporânea (Gaia, Portugal).
Link to web site
http://www.theandrealves.com/index.php?/works/sede-da-juventude-cansada/2/
Date
2020-07-19Creator
Alves, André
Keywords
Post-capitalism
performative-reading
forum
script
Publication type
artistic work
Language
other