STRONG WEAKNESS FRAGILE PROJECT / Arte Bajo Cero
“Soon human relationships will not be able to exist outside of the realm of commerce.” Nicolás Bourriaud
Above the institution of art lies a white band with six letters of deep red that points us toward the weakness of a system of representation. It questions us with regard to what is housed in the entrails of the “cathedrals” of art. “FRAGIL” is installation of Arte Bajo Cero, which instills the sense of what we understand as art. The institution of art is engulfed by an emblem, which asserts that its content must be treated with the utmost care. Within the content is a bounding box of fragility. In the tautology of the interior of another interior, rests the vertigo of nothingness. To astound as a way to create a question and bring to view the anguish that produces a decrypted world, limited of hazards, commercialized. In “FRAGIL installation” the experience of nothing evokes the idea that passes through the institutions of contemporary art. Locate museums and galleries as a space for entertainment and leisure; 1
looking to explode the park of artesions , where what cannot be marketed will be destined to disappear. But, can nothingness be marketed as that mailbox that Federico Peralta Ramos attempted to market in the Castagnino Galería or is the Merda d’artista of Piero Manzoni necessary? Disillusionment, lost of consciousness and disappointment. Criticizing art as a recently purchased product, which has been packed for transport. Artists who suspect that something of what is shown in the art institutions does not agitate the bodies and does not produce thoughts. Language of an art that has been silent, and questions our presence against that which we see that much resembles that newly purchased merchandise that fascinates only because of its novelty and packaging. Art that has been splintered to a flawed sphere where the elite consume it, scholars interpret it, and spectators admire it while walking passively indifferent. The FRAGILE call is planted by an emergency in the world of visual arts. Urgency before the necessity to test new aesthetic forms that rethink the aesthetic practices, invent new expressions, new modes that allow mobility and shocks, seeking to transform our relationship with the world. This group postulates the disappointment of the masks that constitute us as being sensitive and reflective. It leads us to wonder about the power of contemporary art at the time of producing frailties, questions, and perceptions.
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“Artensions” gives us a glimpse of the concepts of the amusement park and/or entertainment and art. According to Deleuze: "The percepts are the domain of art. An artist is someone who creates percepts. Then, why use a rare Word, 'precept', rather than perception? Precisely because the percepts are perceptions. They would say: what does a man of letters want, a writer, a novelist? I think that it wants to build sets of perceptions, sensations that survive those who experience them. And that is a percept. A precept is a set of perceptions and feelings that survives those who experience them." Deleuze, ABC. 2
On-site intervention. Espacio de Arte Contemporรกneo EAC. June 2014. Montevideo Uruguay Arte Bajo Cero