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EXPLORING THE RETURN OF REPRESSION

05. marts - 08. april 2010
Fernisering: 05. marts kl 17.00 - 20.00


Kurator: Razvan Ion
Assisterende kurator: Silvia Vasilescu

Deltagere: Luke Fowler (GB), Hanif Kureishi (GB), Thomas Hirschhorn (CH), Renzo Martens (NL/CG), Taller Popular De Serigrafia (AR), Michel Tournier (FR).

Det undertryktes tilbagevenden er et essentiet tema, som nøgle til at forstå den nyere historie. Vestens projekt, det "Nietzscheske" projekt, har været at fordrive religion og producere et verdsligt samfund, hvori indbyggerne skaber deres egne værdier, fordi moralen er fraværende.
Så pludselig vender radikal religion tilbage fra Den Tredje Verden. Hvordan man man ikke grine ad det? Hvordan kan man ikke betragte det som en dyb historisk ironi? (Hanif Kureishi, i International Herald Tribune)

Ifølge Freud indeholder selve det at indtræde i det civiliserede samfund, undertrykkelsen af adskillige arkaiske, primitive lyster. For Freud er undertrykkelse en normal del af den menneskelige udvikling; netop analysen af drømme, litteratur, jokes og "Freudianske slip" illustrerer måderne hvorpå, vores hemmelige lyster fortsat finder udløb i almindelige veltilpassede individer. Men når vi bliver mødt med hindringer i mod at tilfredsstille vores libidos kateksis, oplever traumatiske begivenheder, eller forbliver fastlåst på tidlige stadier af vores udvikling, kan konflikten mellem libido og ego (eller mellem ego og superego) lede til alternative seksuelle afløb.

Det undertryktes tilbagevenden er processen hvorved undertrykte elementer, bevarede i det ubevidste, har det med at dukke op igen i bevidstheden eller i opførsel, i form at sekundære og mere eller mindre genkendelige "afledninger at det ubevidste".
Denne tilbagevenden af det undertrykte, af ideologier tvunget til marginalisering, af seksualitet underlagt hemmeligholdelse, har i de seneste år resulteret i en næsten dramatisk ændring af samfundet. Et samfund fyldt med lidelse, hallucinationer og undertrykkelse, pålagt af unødvendige bestemmelser, som tjener til regeringers undertrykkende vold mod sine egne indbyggere. (Oversat uddrag fra teksten "Exploring the Return of Repression" af Razvan Ion)

Udstillingen er en tilpasset udgave af "Exploring the Return of Repression" udstillingen, præsenteret i PAVILLION UNCREDIT, Bukarest, Rumænien.

Publikationer:
EXPLORING THE RETURN OF REPRESSION
Edited by Razvan Ion. Texts by: Andrei Craciun, Tatiana Greif, Daraka Larimore Hall, Razvan Ion, Rolling Thunder, Ronald F. King, Urban Larssen, Jose Louis Meiras, Suzana Milevska, Naiem Mohaiemen, Maria Eva Blotta & Diego Posadas, Eugen Radescu, Michel Tournier. 31,5 x 42 cm, 32 pages, black & white, English/Romana Published by Pavilion, Bucharest. Distributed for free.
Free download of pdf version: http://pavilionunicredit.ro/ziar_ETRR.pdf

Åbningstider:
Hver torsdag fra 14.00-17.00 + efter aftale

den demilitariserede zone i Korea
rum46 presents the exhibition

EXPLORING THE RETURN OF REPRESSION
March 5 - April 8, 2010

Opening: March 5 17.00 - 20.00

Curator: Razvan Ion

Participants: Luke Fowler (GB), Hanif Kureishi (GB), Thomas Hirschhorn (CH), Renzo Martens (NL/CG), Taller Popular De Serigrafia (AR), Michel Tournier (FR).

The return of the repressed is a crucial theme, a key to understanding recent history. "The project of the West, the Nietzschean project, has been to drive out religion and to produce a secular society in which men and women make their own values because morality is gone. Then suddenly radical religion returns from the Third World. How can you not laugh at that? How can you not find that a deep historical irony?" (Hanif Kureishi, in International Herald Tribune).

According to Freud, the very act of entering into civilized society entails the repression of various archaic, primitive desires. For Freud repression is a normal part of human development; indeed, the analysis of dreams, literature, jokes, and "Freudian slips" illustrates the ways that our secret desires continue to find outlet in perfectly well-adjusted individuals. However, when we are faced with obstacles to satisfaction of our libido's cathexis, when we experience traumatic events, or when we remain fixated on earlier phases of our development, the conflict between the libido and the ego (or between the ego and the superego) can lead to alternative sexual discharges.

The return of the repressed is the process whereby repressed elements, preserved in the unconscious, tend to reappear, in consciousness or in behavior, in the shape of secondary and more or less unrecognizable "derivatives of the unconscious." This return of the repressed, of ideologies forced to marginalization, of sexuality subject to forced secrecy, has resulted, in recent years, in an almost dramatic change of a society filled with anguish, hallucinations, repression imposed by unnecessary regulations that serve to the repressive violence of governments against their own citizens. (Excerpt from the text "Exploring the return of repression" by Razvan Ion).

Assistant curator: Silvia Vasilescu

Publications:
EXPLORING THE RETURN OF REPRESSION
Edited by Razvan Ion. Texts by: Andrei Craciun, Tatiana Greif, Daraka Larimore Hall, Razvan Ion, Rolling Thunder, Ronald F. King, Urban Larssen, Jose Louis Meiras, Suzana Milevska, Naiem Mohaiemen, Maria Eva Blotta & Diego Posadas, Eugen Radescu, Michel Tournier. 31,5 x 42 cm, 32 pages, black & white, English/Romana Published by Pavilion, Bucharest. Distributed for free.
Free download of pdf version: http://pavilionunicredit.ro/ziar_ETRR.pdf

This exhibition is a version of the "Exploring the Return of Repression", exhibition presented at PAVILION UNICREDIT, Bucharest, Romania.

Image: Taller Popular de Serigrafia, "Serigraphy Workshop for the Masses - Dario and Maxi presents / Work, Dignity, Social Change", July 26, 2002. Image printed for the first time at the cultural day celebrated at the Puente Pueyrredón (province of Buenos Aires, Argentina), a month after the shooting execution of Maximiliano Kosteki and DarioSantillán assasinated by the state armed forces, in the name of democracy. "Work, dignity, social change" was the principal slogan of the politically active organization, the Movimiento de TrabajadoresDesocupados (MTD)-Anibal Verón.

Opening hours:
Thursdays 14.00-17-00 and by appointment





CALL FOR PROPOSALS - Residency programme at rum46

The Public Space and Rhetoric

To all artists, curators, art theorists and other cultural producers living in the Nordic or the Baltic countries outside of Denmark

The exhibition space and artist collective rum46 hereby invites you to send us a proposal for a project you would like to carry out during a residency at rum46 in Århus, Denmark, during autumn or winter 2009. rum46 will organize a 2 - 4 weeks stay in Århus for 2-4 artists or cultural producers, who would like to work on a project within the framework of our topic The Public Space and Rhetoric

Thoughts and inspiration
rum46 would like to take a critical look at communication in the public domain- How ideas are taken over, misused, and their meanings are taken out of context and distorted. What linguistic potential for making statements exists and who has the right to these statements in the public space? Everything from election posters, advertisements, information stands and other marketing material to the press, poetry, song and radio and tv productions and other publications.
What place does the communal have in the public space today? What more or less hidden marketing agenda permeates the urban space?
Today one can speak of "verbal incontinence" from all sides of the political spectrum and this results in a language which is ineffective as a tool to develop democracy. Rhetoric is an activity, the linguistic attempt to convince others and in this way it is manipulative. To what degree can one say that the individual uses a language and to what degree is he or she controlled by it? What stance do we take in relation to rhetoric's ethical dimension?

More about the residency
You do not need to have a lengthy project description ready when you apply for the residency programme, but if you would like to work on a project which relevant to our topic, we would be happy to hear from you. All kinds of proposals are welcome. You could suggest a talk, an exhibition, a work of research, an art project in the streets of Århus, a video-screening or anything else you would like to do in Århus, A part of your project must address the public and the art-scene in Århus. Please send a brief C.V. together with your project description.
Please send your proposal to rum46@rum46.dk or to our postal address. Please remember to include your email address and we will send you a confirmation. After a selection process all applicants will be notified. If we accept your proposal, rum46 will provide accommodation, nothing luxurious, but it will be an apartment which is basic and functional. Additionally you can use the premises of rum46 as your office and studio; however you will have to share the space with the other members of our space. As well as providing free accommodation we pay 4500 kr. to each project and cover travelling expenses.
As the residency programme is supported by Nordic Culture Point, applications are restricted to artists from, or resident in, the Nordic and Baltic countries. (Danish residents cannot apply for the residency programme)

Please check our website if you would like to know more about rum46. And please forward this invitation to your art friends.
We look forward to reading your proposal!

Kind regards from rum46

rum46
Studsgade 46, st. tv.
8000 Århus C
Denmark
rum46@rum46.dk

www.rum46.dk