#86 Propositions: Experiments in Collective Archive & Composition
PROPOSITIONS: EXPERIMENTS IN COLLECTIVE ARCHIVE & COMPOSITION
Performative Screenings #86
Propositions: Experiments in Collective Archive & Composition
hosted by The Collective Art Community Against Censorship
with the participation of Archive of Silence
Friday October 4, 7 pm
through November 9, 2024
The space will be open to the public Saturdays 3–8 pm
and by appointment
A:
We have a problem!
B:
A school could be a space to name problems
to examine them
to understand them
A:
Where to go if there is a problem school doesn’t want to name?
B:
We go to school!
A:
Which school?
B:
school is a factory, a copy room, an investigation office, an archive house
school in October is a radical communal experimental space
A space in which a collective knowledge give-and-take is attempted
where links are forged
where sharing information is practiced
Above all school is a school is a school is a school
A:
Apropos October…
From October last year till October this year, the cultural and academic sectors of Austria and Germany have witnessed an unprecedented number of cancellations, censorship, and repression. Hundreds of open and closed letters have been written and signed. The amount of these cases and their context, representation, debates, and conversation are so vast that one loses track and forgets.
B:
school is also a space for observing comparatively
for remembering
for preserving
A:
In the past year alone, many artists, cultural workers, academic scholars, and concerned individuals have come together to form grassroots practices of archiving, informing, and protesting this fascist escalation.
B:
school in October is a space for honoring the labor of the past year
of the past decades
school in October is a space for making this labor visible
through physically documenting them
through aggregating the documents
A:
What is aggregation good for?
B:
school in November is a radical communal experimental space
A space in which collective composition is attempted
where links are forged
where propositions are made
Above all school is a school is a school is a school