Contemporary art incorporates the poetry of our daily lives into a continuous quest to record, muse upon, and destructure the ways in we appropriate space and seize upon intimate, emotional and symbolic manifestations, individual and collective stories and memories. This involves connecting shared experiences with multiple cultures, as well as the frontiers of identity, resistance, asymmetry and inequalities, unmasking the operations of cultural dominance, and incorporating the binary nature of exclusion-inclusion/placed-displaced. This search focuses on the need to conceptualize, materialize and make visible a range of different possible worlds from the individual point of view, as well as from our role as social and political subjects.
We propose a curatorial essay which examines the strategies of the signs and critical re-inscriptions which revitalize and add an extra dimension to alternatives for habitation and the new forms of reterritorialization, appropriation and transformation. The idea is to incorporate a line of thought which — from feminism, sexual disobedience and other coalitions of desire — embrace domestic affectivity, the deconstruction of the city and activism as a whole, to ensure a more livable future. This is done through a range of different approaches which seek to subjectivize everything that presents itself as a battleground, where different forces meet, as well as the manifestations of sorrow and pleasure. As Judith Butler says, this means deepening the need for a life trained to speak, feel, investigate and contribute to the transformation which, in language, in different ways from diverse spaces, manages to enrich our experience of “inhabiting the world.”
