[spectre] exhibition / symposium

[Maja & Reuben Fowkes]

Loophole to Happiness
Futura Centre for Contemporary Art
25 May -- 7 August 2011?

Curated by Maja & Reuben Fowkes
www.translocal.org

Participating artists: Zbyne(k Baladrán, Adam Chodzko, Petra Feriancova, 
Sinis(a Labrovic', Ciprian Muresan, Csaba Nemes, Nada Prlja, Janek 
Simon, Péter Szabó and Katarina S(evic'.

Loophole to Happiness sets out to locate and explore the 
freedom-enhancing loopholes that exist on the margins of repressive 
social systems from East European communism to global capitalism. Faced 
with the perfection of techniques of absorbing criticism and the 
systematic mobilisation of our creativity, sociability and sentiments 
for economic ends, the search is on for new forms of resistance to the 
endless pressure of production. This exhibition takes the inventive 
strategies of worker resistance under communism as the starting point 
for fresh attempts to imagine exceptions, find escape routes and evade 
the smooth surface of today's neo-liberal capitalist order.

Reclaim Happiness Symposium: Opposing Systems
Tranzitdisplay, Tuesday 24 May, 1-5pm

This symposium considers East European socialism and post-communist 
capitalism as opposing systems and explores the tactics devised by 
artists, dissidents and social activists to circumvent, escape or resist 
them. Contributors include: Franco Berardi Bifo, Tamás St.Auby, Miklós 
Haraszti, Jiri Skala, Fedor Blascak, Adam Chodzko and Maja & Reuben Fowkes.

This project is realised in partnership with Trafó House of Contemporary 
Arts, Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, 
Tranzitdisplay and AMT Project and is supported by Visegrad Fund and 
European Cultural Foundation.

For more information see:
www.translocal.org/loophole <http://www.translocal.org/loophole>



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