Exhibition - Paradise, not for me
An exhibition by MA Artistic Research at Paradise.
Opening times: Friday 22 May, 19:00-22:00, Saturday 23 - Monday 25 May, 12:00-18:00.
Curatorial mentor: Kris Dittel
Graphic design: Lotte Lara Schröder
Featuring works by:
Chenxin Cai, Luca Calderó, Tam Do, Ellen Fleig Gracia, Sara Francola, Guðrún Jónsdóttir, Jeonghyun Kang, Nadežda Kirćanski, Foteini Kytiani, Salomé Lopes, Jakob Lotta, Dakota Magdalena Mokhammad, Esther Nieuw Jurk, io Wu
Introductory text by Kris Dittel
Rather than emerging from a predetermined theme, this exhibition begins from a proposition and from the collective responses it generated.
The starting point was an invitation to think through movement, performance and performativity: what does it mean to perform, how do we perform, and how might matter itself perform? Here, performance is not limited to the live or the spectacular. It may take the form of an action, a trace, a duration, a set of instructions, or a material process unfolding over time. Likewise, movement may be physical, affective, conceptual, or political.
In response to this proposition, the participating artists introduced the notion of malfunction. Not as failure or breakdown, but as glitch, an interruption that unsettles normative expectations and redirects processes toward unforeseen trajectories, openings and forms of encounter.
Like an engine rotating off-axis or a mechanism that produces results other than those intended, malfunction becomes less a breakdown than a mode of operation. It is through this detouring logic that other forms, images, and relations emerge. After all, paradise is not a destination, but an uneven horizon that is always in the process of slipping away.
Introductory text by Kris Dittel
Rather than emerging from a predetermined theme, this exhibition begins from a proposition and from the collective responses it generated.
The starting point was an invitation to think through movement, performance and performativity: what does it mean to perform, how do we perform, and how might matter itself perform? Here, performance is not limited to the live or the spectacular. It may take the form of an action, a trace, a duration, a set of instructions, or a material process unfolding over time. Likewise, movement may be physical, affective, conceptual, or political.
In response to this proposition, the participating artists introduced the notion of malfunction. Not as failure or breakdown, but as glitch, an interruption that unsettles normative expectations and redirects processes toward unforeseen trajectories, openings and forms of encounter.
Like an engine rotating off-axis or a mechanism that produces results other than those intended, malfunction becomes less a breakdown than a mode of operation. It is through this detouring logic that other forms, images, and relations emerge. After all, paradise is not a destination, but an uneven horizon that is always in the process of slipping away.
