Events / The Destituent Lab
2022-09-26 - / , Bucharest
The question of destituent practice is posed as a framework for exploring approaches to creative work, as well as contextual, relational and situational methods.
Following Giorgio Agamben’s notion of destituent power, as grounded in acts of withdrawal, exit or evacuation, and a sensibility of non-work (or the interrupted project), we’re interested to reflect upon in what ways the destituent may lend itself to conceptualizing new approaches to practice. We invite artists, theorists, researchers and project initiatiors to take part in the laboratory through both private and public events.
To explore these topics, the project is organized around a series of creative workshops, or Destituent Labs, where a working group of participating artists and researchers collaborate on investigating, mapping, testing or manifesting the destituent. This includes theoretical, performative and material processes, as well as sited investigations, which can lead to various manifestations or residues. Through such gatherings and processes, we hope to reflect upon the destituent as a power and poetics that can support new creative efforts and imaginaries.
Through an initiative that opens the circle of belonging, a series of public talks will take place throughout the 2-week lab, inviting artists, researchers and theorists to place their research into dialogue with the notion of the destituent. We attempt to give new meaning to existent practices, integrating them within a community that aggregates around strategies of resistance without becoming homogenous, but rather porous, through dialogue, walks and constant interaction with the local landscape.
With participating artists: Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan, Daniela Custrin, Yota Ioannidou, Brandon LaBelle, María García Ruíz, Lise Skou, along with invited guests Elena Loizidou, Aria Spinelli, Radio Papesse.
Developed in collaboration with Quote-Unquote, Bucharest.