Posters, 2011

CITZENSHIP = EQUALITY

AWARENESS

EVERYTHING ANYTHING

INVENT A WAY OF BEING IN THE WORLD

TIME IS A MEANING

WAR NEVER STOPS

This essay is part of a continuing investigation of the ways in which users – commonly assumed to be passive and guided by established rules – operate. The point is not so much to discuss this elusive yet fundamental subject as to make such discussion possible; that is, by means of inquires and hypotheses, to indicate pathways for further research. This goal will be achieved if every day practices, ways of operating or doing things, no longer appear as merely the obscure background of social activity, and if a body of theoretical questions, methods, categories, and perspectives, by penetrating this obscurity, make it possible to articulate them.   

CERTEAU, Michel De.  The Practice of Everyday Life: General Introduction, p. xi

reading Certeau:

The everyday life is something that’s given us each day (or something that we can share), that puts pressure on us day after day, so there’s some oppression that comes with this present. Every day, in the morning, there’s something we assume when we wake up, the weight of life, the difficulty of living in this or another condition, with some fatigue and some desire. This everyday life is something that hold us very deeply, coming from our inner. It’s a story that’s on the midway of ourselves, almost retreating and sometimes seeming veiled. We can’t forget  this “world of memory(…) It’s  a  world we love so deeply with its olfative memory, childhood places memory, memory of body, gestures of childhood, and the pleasures (…) What really means to the historian of everyday life is the invisible…

CERTEAU, Michel De.  GIARD, Luce. MAYOL, Pierre. The Practice of Everyday Life: Living and Cooking v.2. p.31

BRAZILIAN ENCOUNTER
AN OVERVIEW OF CONCEPTUAL ART AS AN UNFINISHED PROGRAM
MFA - AKV St Joost
1st:2 November 2011 
10h30 - 16h30 
CBK (Centrum Beeldende Kunst)
Willem II Fabriek in Den Bosch
Boschdijkstraat 104, Den Bosch.
The Netherlands
2nd: 23 November 2011 
Visit at exhibition
A Rua,
M HKA Leuvenstraat 32
Antwerp. BE
Project Meio
at 1st editionevent
A Casa Visita 
30 August to 3 September 2011
Atelie 397
Sao Paulo.BR

workshop participation:
"La chaîne est belle"
22 to 24 June 2011
Organized by artists Nico Dockxand, Louwrien Wijer...
Academy of Fine Arts and Artesis University College
Antwerpen. BE
 
Meio Reading tip: Meio (Volume I)
reading room, Casa M
more info: http://projeto-meio.blogspot.com/
Text published:
A emergencia de iniciativas coletivas:
entre conversas e debates  
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