Bergen Assembly 2019, titled Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead, encompasses an exhibition and a series of events taking place at various venues in Bergen. At the centre of the project is a preoccupation with life – with an understanding of life beyond the binary oppositions of life and death, nature and culture, human and animal, subject and object, healthy and sick, past and future.
Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead examines how to redefine our alliances with those who are not presently living. The project proposes communicating with the spectres of the past and the future and taking responsibility for those who are no longer, or not yet, here. This responsibility defies the subjugation of life to the politics of death, ranging from the destruction of the material and idealistic basis of life for countless people, or the deadly rejection of refugees, to the destruction of the planet. Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead revolves around the reclamation of life, fathoming the potential of artistic practices to imagine life differently.
Bergen Assembly 2019 is conceived by a group of twelve curators, artists, theorists, and activists. This core group develops the programme in the form of individual, shared, and overlapping projects to which it invites further artists and contributors from other fields. AC/E supports through the PICE grants the participation of the following Spanish artists:
Paula Pin con “GynePunk” - 3 workshops;
Paul B. Preciado con “Parliament of Bodies”;
Julio Jara con “Los mil y un cartones” (Thousand and One Cardboard) ;
Daniel García Andújar con “How to Understand the D’Hondt Method (Democracy)”;
Teresa Lanceta con “Gallineros”;
Israel Galván con “La Fiesta” (Modification) - Video instalación y espectáculos.
María García Ruiz con la exposicion “Political Party”;
Tomás de Perrate, Fran Cabeza de Vaca, David Pielfort, Isaías Griñolo Padilla, María Salgado y Niño de Elche con “Canciones De La Guerra Social Contemporanea”, en el contexto de los días de apertura de “Bergen Assembly 2019.
Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead examines how to redefine our alliances with those who are not presently living. The project proposes communicating with the spectres of the past and the future and taking responsibility for those who are no longer, or not yet, here. This responsibility defies the subjugation of life to the politics of death, ranging from the destruction of the material and idealistic basis of life for countless people, or the deadly rejection of refugees, to the destruction of the planet. Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead revolves around the reclamation of life, fathoming the potential of artistic practices to imagine life differently.
Bergen Assembly 2019 is conceived by a group of twelve curators, artists, theorists, and activists. This core group develops the programme in the form of individual, shared, and overlapping projects to which it invites further artists and contributors from other fields. AC/E supports through the PICE grants the participation of the following Spanish artists:
Paula Pin con “GynePunk” - 3 workshops;
Paul B. Preciado con “Parliament of Bodies”;
Julio Jara con “Los mil y un cartones” (Thousand and One Cardboard) ;
Daniel García Andújar con “How to Understand the D’Hondt Method (Democracy)”;
Teresa Lanceta con “Gallineros”;
Israel Galván con “La Fiesta” (Modification) - Video instalación y espectáculos.
María García Ruiz con la exposicion “Political Party”;
Tomás de Perrate, Fran Cabeza de Vaca, David Pielfort, Isaías Griñolo Padilla, María Salgado y Niño de Elche con “Canciones De La Guerra Social Contemporanea”, en el contexto de los días de apertura de “Bergen Assembly 2019.