What are the places for art we create in our society? Do we give it enough space, importance, value, thought? Do we know enough about its healing, transformative powers?

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Squatting territory, not meant for art, and being in the very heart of the human market exchange of services, we wonder: how we can emphasize here the special nature of art and the quality of exchange it offers between people. How this squatting can become rather a soft invasion or a gentle, caring penetration? What kind of senses, organs, structures, ideas, do we want to wake up here?

 

In this very unique and original proposition from Rudi van der Merwe, where art almost turns into actionist gesture, we propose you this immersive experience as a suggestion of a sensual and reflective trip, guiding us through the different layers of our bodies, minds, spirits, souls, live materials, and the materiality of life.

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Gentle Curator: Dina Khuseyn; Tender artists: Anatoli Vlassov, Lilach Pnina Livne, Julian Weber, Natasha Zhukova, Katya Volkova, Antonio Onio, Tarik Burnash, Frida Giulia Franceschini, Ariah Lester.  

 

 

The timetable of the evening can be seen on the main page. Having simultaneous performances is not about creating competition between the artists, but rather a collective wave of soft power, being able to reveal itself even through physical distancing.  Feel free to enter and leave the artists' rooms, to move freely between them, no one is watching you tonight.

 

 

BIO

Dina Khuseyn is a dance activist, choreographer, and independent curator. Her activities take very different shapes: from the creation of artworks in various contexts, up to educational, social, and political engagements. She is interested in the porosity of art and society and their points of penetration, the transformative power of art, and building horizontal communities through it. At the moment Dina Khuseyn lives and works between France and Russia, where she creates her choreographic and curatorial projects.

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