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ARE YOU PRECARIOUS?
Documentation of the Exhibition totale partizipation_Radikale Entspannung, Berlin 2007




Photos: Markus Freidl

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totale_partizipation:RADIKALE_ENTSPANNUNG
The themes or questions raised in the exhibition project will revolve around precarity and/or self-precarization. The main focus of the art work is on the paradox absorption of participation and self-initiative in the neo-liberal capitalist society: Is there a demand of total participation in almost all areas of life? How do you combine friendship and work? Is there a separation between public and private life? What consequence does self-economization have? Do you find yourself permanently networking? Do you have time to relax? “Everyone has to remain on speed otherwise you might drop out. There are no clear times for relaxation or recuperation. This kind of reproduction has no clear place, which, in turn, results in an unfulfilled yearning and a continuous suffering from this lack. The desire for relaxation to find oneself becomes insatiable.” (1) At the beginning of the project there will be a creative laboratory for discussions and talks. The project is open to the public and calls for participation in different phases of the project: In the workshop, the exhibition or in a blog online. The project has two platforms, the real project space in Brunnenstrasse and in the virtual space of the blog. www.totalepartizipation.com The exhibition will present some of the results of the collective discourse as well as art work related to the themes. timeline: workshop: July 20th-25th opening: July 27th, 7pm exhibition: July 28th thru August 17th space: ARTTRANSPONDER e.v. Projektraum // Brunnenstr. 151 // D-10115 Berlin Fon +49(0)30-306 42 400 Fax +49(0)30-44 67 81 14 www.arttransponder.net Organisation/artists: Caroline Lund & Christine Woditschka Blog: Tjoss May ( 1) Isabell Lorey: Vom immanenten Widerspruch zur hegemonialen Funktion. Biopolitische Gouvernementalität und Selbst-Prekarisierung von KulturproduzentInnen, in: Kritik der Kreativität, hg. von Gerald Raunig und Ulf Wuggenig, Wien 2007

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totale_partizipation:RADICAL NETWORKING
Programmed by: Sylvia Schedelbauer Screening Date: August 3rd, 2007, 9pm with: Yin-Ju Chen, Kara Herold, Archimedia, Anne McGuire, Bryan Boyce, Kathleen Quillian/Gilbert Guerrero, Bill Daniel, James T. Hong/Yin-Ju Chen Report from the Western ’Prairicairie’ San Francisco When prompted, most people in San Francisco would probably not identify with the term “precarity“. Precarious ways of life seem to have always constituted a major part of North American identity––starting with the first immigration from Europe, through the history of the Wild West, to contemporary Mexican re-immigration. Even though there is hardly a safety net of social security (social benefits, affordable health insurance, unemployment benefits, not to mention social security for artists, or rent support), and despite the USA being a home of some of the most insecure workers in the First World, the discourse about precarity seems absent. Why? Is the condition of precarious work and living such a naturalized element of consciousness, that the necessity for a discourse appears redundant? Radical Networking presents a video program from San Francisco, USA. The selection of work was playful and associative, and is contextualized by both themes of precarity, as well as relaxation. A preview of the screening will be looped on a monitor during the entire exhibition.

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