Exhibition / Film Event / Reading Event / Concert / 11.04.2010 – 01.05.2010

Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina

Ghosts of Dreams Deferred

Exhibition / Film Event / Reading Event / Concert

Curator: Fatos Ustek

Artists: Anita di Bianco, Young In Hong, Laura Kuch, Hidde van Schie, Lindsay Seers

11.04.2010 – 01.05.2010

Ghosts of Dreams Deferred depicts the condition of being haunted by ghosts of a past that is yet vibrant and resemble hissing for a loss that instead could be of a joyful present moment. The exhibition brings together five different practices, thus works that expand the conceptual framework in the way the concept of the exhibition is taken towards an expansion of resemblances and associations.

Societies, individuals, and personas, in ontological sense, live with the continuous production of desire and with the drive to embody their dreams. Passion as a strong impulse may wither away by the immense accumulation of disappointments and failures of beholding the dreams to come true. As failure is not the ultimate end, but the consequence of the loss of trust in one’s engagement to political, economical, psychological, emotional and social domains; it leads to viciously circulating state of complication. That is to say, it leads to a complicated state of mind where the present moment is continuously defined by the traumatic.

Hence, ghosts resemble, reiterate, and almost re-enact the experience of the trauma. In other words, ghosts are the metaphorical iconography of the traumatic, which is in the nature of personhood (rationale of societies, characteristics of individuals).

Ghosts of Dreams Deferred is a ground for activating the complication of personhood, societies at their rationale; presupposes that haunting is a social phenomenon and not an individual psychosis nor a pre-modern superstition; hence it investigates the potentiality of radical political, social and emotional change. That is to say, it implements change, which is possible only through flourishing of new forms of subjectivity and sociality.

Program:

11.04.2010 – 01.05.2010

Ghosts of Dreams Deferred

18.04.2010, 16:00 – 18:00hrs.

Reading event: It has to be this way by Lindsay Seers

25.04.2010, 16:00 – 18:00hrs.

Film event: Screening of Ghost Dance by Ken McMullen

01.05.2010, 16:00 – 20:00hrs.

Curator & Artist Talk + Closing Concert by Hidde van Schie

Ghosts of Dreams Deferred is part of the working module Kuratorët, a project by Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina.

Ghosts of Dreams Deferred is sponsored by Mondriaan Foundation, Dardania Insurance Company, Technomarket, KTV, Rrokum, Gegë, Alter Habitus and DZG.

Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina

Zija Prishtina n.n. | 10000 Prishtina | Republic of Kosova

Web: http://www.stacion.org

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