Tentative Collective

New North and South: creative threads that run across continents A three-year project celebrates art from the north of England and South Asia

http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/145713/cosmopolis-1-collective-intelligence/

Cosmopolis #1: Collective Intelligence - Announcements - e-flux Cosmopolis #1: Collective Intelligence // October 18–December 18, 2017

Cosmopolis #1 will be open to the public on Wednesday, October 18, during the normal Centre Pompidou hours (11am-9pm). There will be talks from 7pm that day, including a conversation with Ravi Sundaram that we will be a part of.

The official opening event will then take place on Thursday, October 19, from 6pm to 9pm. From 7:45-9 pm, the evening will feature a conversation moderated by Kader Attia with some of the artists and collectives whose work is featured in the show.

Centre Pompidou's press release and detailed program can be downloaded via these links:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bz7dRh3PSWWnaXpteWVVWTdXZFU

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bz7dRh3PSWWnanJCMllBUk1vZkE

Cosmopolis #1 - Press release.pdf

We are really excited to present a new video project at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, opening next week!

Our multi channel installation titled, "Shershah and Other Stories", is a close reading of spaces of work and value that are changing in Karachi - often becoming wasted or redundant under pressures of economic liberalization and global progress.

The project is part of Cosmopolis #1: Collective Intelligence, gathering alternative collective practices from around the world.
Show opens October 18, 2017

We are thrilled to have been included in this list of fantastic artists:

Arquitectura Expandida (Colombia)
Art Labor (Vietnam)
Chimurenga (South Africa)
Chto Delat (Russia)
Polit-Sheer-Form-Office (China)
Council (France)
Foundland Collective (Netherlands/Egypt)
Iconoclasistas (Argentina)
Invisible Borders (Nigeria)
Laagencia (Colombia)
Mix Rice (South Korea)
Por Estos Dias (Colombia)
Ruangrupa (Indonesia)
The Tentative Collective (Pakistan)

Looking forward to seeing many of you at the show. Details to follow...

Early 2016, we were invited by the Manchester Art Gallery to participate with a project for the New North South Network, an initiative being launched to commemorate 70’s year of Independence or should we say Partition. After being in conversation with the wonderful curator Clare Gannaway and working on a project for over a year, little did we realize that the actual project will be facilitated by the visa officer, who spelled out for us the notion of ‘The New North and South’.

Using a condescending tone, our visa applications compiled over a month, were dismissed by an anonymous referee with a simple sentence, “I am not satisfied”.

This is not the first time artists have been denied visas to attend regional shows, however it points to the persistent difficulties of building relationships between regions once part of a common wealth. The legacy of colonization haunts us 70 years later as we increasingly inhabit suspicious islands surrounded by walls. It forces us to create distinctions between regions that have the potential to be fluid, giving them identities such as North and South, that reinforce binary differences based on the privilege of verticality.

We urgently need to send a hard drive to Paris from Karachi. Anyone flying this week?

We are very excited and honoured to be part of the 'New North and South' network's programming in Manchester this September! We will be presenting alongside all these amazing practitioners from South Asia as well as the UK. Details of our project will follow soon...

Portraits of a city: Shershah metal scrap yards, Karachi.

Guys we are urgently looking for a transcriber based in Karachi for about three days worth of work. The audio is mostly in Urdu. We would need someone to listen and write down all the text in roman english if possible. This would be a paid gig and we are ready to start as soon as today! So please message us if you are free.

Thrilled to have contributed a piece in the current issue of The Funambulist magazine! Our photo essay was a response to the call for a 'political walk' through the city. We grounded our ideas around a metal scrapyard at the periphery of Karachi and wrote about dizzying development around us through the lens of accumulation and excess. This was a very productive part of the process in a long term exploration of things that get left behind by progress.

If you follow the link you can access the magazine via a paid digital subscription. If you can, please support this lovely magazine and the wonderful people who run it. (If you really really can't afford it, send us an email)

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https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/designed-destructions

Designed Destructions - THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE MAY-JUNE 2017