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State of Statelessness exhibition at ISELP, Brussels

OPENING 12.05.18, 7PM.

 

State of Statelessness is one way to describe the contemporary condition of disembodiment
and the position of an individual in an increasingly mediated society.
It becomes a site for self-production and aestheticisation,
a matrix enmeshing what has not assumed any fixed form (yet).

It can also be imagined as a paradoxical, pseudo-administrative body,
a space for a supranational society to take form,
a utopian enclave based on indeterminacy and fluidity.
State of Statelessness is a swansong amidst the crisis.

On the other hand, statelessness may appear as a fatal predicament,
a painfully carnal condition of displacement.
It harbours feelings of rejection and non-belonging
and imposes the status of an outcast, the ‘other’.

Finally, it connects to the state of being in-between,
the moment of intermission or suspension on a variety of levels.
In mid-May ISELP – and us with it – will enter this particular mode
with a group show that sets out to manipulate the ambiguous notion of statelessness.

*The title of the exhibition derives from the text P.A.R.A.D.E. On Streaming Selves, Social Forms, and Disembodiment by Sabrina Chou.

With:
Sabrina Chou
Marijke De Roover
Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (Chris Dreier & Gary Farrelly)
Yuki Okumura
Meggy Rustamova
Eleonore Saintagnan
Gen Ueda
Jonathan Vinel
Beny Wagner
Justyna Wierzchowiecka

 

Curatorial Team:
Romuald Demidenko
Maxime Gourdon
Alicja Melzacka

Public Programme Curator:
Hilde Borgermans

Graphic Design:
Linh Dong & Elise van Kerckhove

In collaboration with:
Curatorial Studies KASK & ISELP

 

contact us: stateofstatelessness@gmail.com
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