Special Projects

Four collectives and two curators/theorists were invited to participate in a three-day workshop in Murcia on a specially designed set evoking, somewhat abstractly, British parliamentary arenas. The theorists/curators moderated discussions between the collectives on issues including the condition of art criticism today, activism in collective practices, and the instrumentalisation of contemporary art. The aim of this experimental workshop was to collectively generate a body of ideas that would be solutions-oriented by tackling and, more importantly, even surpassing such issues. The workshop took place under the lens of a filmmaker looking to portray, yet to fictionalise, this discursive situation on intellectual and emotional levels. The Backbench installation features the original set of the workshop and the film installation.

Collectives: The Action Mill, Metahaven, Red76 y Take to the Sea

Moderators: Nav Haq, Suhail Malik

Architecture: nOffice

Film by Ergin Çavusoglu