Description:
Frame:
Series of Translocality: events and pamphlets in the public sphere.
Exercises...proposes a pamphlet-discussion on tha base of conceptual or fictional nations or states experiences and other discussions of nationality /identity/ translocality from Caucus-Be(com)ing Dutch.
The pamphlet is an interchangeable structure:
The flyer like discussion and the discussion like line of flight, is a conversational structure.
It´s organizing in two faces and offers instructions to act in the event (face1) or just answer questions. (face2)
The event-discussion presents the same scrip of the pamphlet: discussion time and writing time.
During Be (com)ing Dutch, Eindhoven it presented three discussions in Spanish, Dutch, and English.There is sound-register.
Pamphlet Text
SIDE1
The notion of “nationality” presupposes hierarchies: people that were born in a determined locality have better rights than immigrants. But, what would happen with these hierarchies if a “native” decided to experiment with selective-denationality?
EXERCISES: FROM THE CONTINGENCY OF NATIONALITY
TO AN EXPERIMENT ON SELECTIVE-DENATIONALITY
A pamphlet-like discussion and a discussion-like line of flight…
INVITATION TO INTEGRATE THE IN SITU DISCUSSION
On Thursday 10th of July 5 pm
Café de Baron
Kleine Berg 32 Eindhoven
INSTRUCTIONS
This pamphlet is composed by questions and blank spaces that invite you to reflect/answer and to integrate it in the discussion.
1-you can keep the pamphlet or throw it away
2-you can participate in the discussion on thursday 10th
3-you can answer one, two, or all questions and bring the pamphlet to the discussion on thursday 10th of july
4-you can integrate your pamphlet/answers in the project´s archive
THANK YOU
Contact:
selectivedena@gmail.com
State of Translocality - Be(com)ing Dutch exhibition- Van Abbemuseum – Eindhoven – 2008
SIDE 2
1-art & knowledge - what kind of small strategies can we create to develop symmetric conditions of interchange and discussion about trans-local issues?
2-horizon of freedom - what sorts of devices, actions, or games –reflecting on our present perspectives of freedom– can we develop?
3-capital´ s flows - what could we do for our protection as a citizen while these are national protections and while the flow of capital and power of corporations are transnational?
4-hypothesis - what exercises or experiments are possible beyond the contingency of nationality? (for example: a new form of citizen status?)
5-exercises – can other cultural values be a base for interaction, or an exchange, between trans-local people further than religion or nationalism? Requested currency amount
6-changes - are we prepared to deal with these changes as a global problem, that is, a problem concerning everyone, independent of their place of birth? |
