Etcetera… present the International Errorist
SMART Project Space /Opening Reception, Saturday 19 March 2011, 19hrs - Exhibition until 24 April, 2011
Images: http://www.facebook.com/album.Opening: http://www.facebook.com/album.
Is the triumph of the failure?
The title of the exhibition “From the relative truth to the absolute error” works as metaphor about both philosophic and scientific concepts, playing with the notions of absolute and relative truth, the error as a kind of element of measure, between relativism and dialectic.
Today, the errors, and failures are confronting permanently with the social pressure to follow the preconception of the stereotyped ideas of successful and perfection, as main motor of the all social life in the contemporary western societies.
This exhibition is a manifesto, is a kind of answer against the passivity and scepticism, apparently related with the residual position of relativism imposed during decadent decades of post-modernism. Is a trigger to introduce the audience into the International Errorist movement, entering inside a labyrinth of errors, and failures which is basically based in an empiric research in the daily own life. Front of the usually unmotivated audience of the art media, is time to recover our most beautiful contradictions and try try to shake again the mass movement of multitudes of consumers with the fear to fail, or just afraid to take incorrect decisions.
Errorist World Map (Space 1) http://www.smartprojectspace.
Error Arsenal (Space 2) http://www.smartprojectspace.
Errorist Kabaret (Space 4) http://www.smartprojectspace.
(Space 6) Chto Delat? Museum Songspiel; the Netherlands 20XX
“Truth and error, like all thought-concepts which move in polar opposites, have absolute validity only in an extremely limited field… as first elements of dialectics, which deal precisely with the inadequacy of all polar opposites. As soon as we apply the antithesis between truth and error outside of that narrow field which has been referred to above it becomes relative and therefore unserviceable for exact scientific modes of expression; and if we attempt to apply it as absolutely valid outside that field we really find ourselves altogether beaten: both poles of the antithesis become transformed into their opposites, truth becomes error and error truth” F. Engels, Anti-Dühring , Moscow, 1959, p. 127. p. 135 Source: MATERIALISM and EMPIRIO-CRITICISM http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/ two5.htm#bkV14E052
Errorist World Map http://www.smartprojectspace.
Entering to the first room, the head/heart of the exhibition, this map is a geopolitically uncorrected representation which doesn’t try to find accurate data. A game of representation of another possible cartographies, where the world is reversed , and the point of view depend of an imperfect drawing in an “glocal” attempt of networks in the erratic lives of this movement.
On the installation you can find all the clues needed to find you on the path of error-ism. This is also, a place to remember the glorious moment of the foundation of this movement and how was spreading around the all world. Is an space to discover how some errorist cells in the southern cone of Latin America, currently carried out more than five years of propaganda campaigns, actions and erratic distribution of knowledge, through texts printed on the walls of Brian Holmes, Stephen Wright, Franco Berardi (Bifo) among others.
Photographers Credits: SubCoop, Indymedia Argentina, Renate Koßmann, Pietro Botte , Etcetera...
Videos included: The Errorist Error (4´35´´ -2005) / Urban Errorist Cartography (4´51´´ - 2009) / 200 Hundred Years of Error6´16´´ 2010)
Three errorists actions carried out by members of the Buenos Aires Section of the International Errorist.
(Etcétera... // Sub Coop // Editorial El Asunto // Kinodelia Video productions // Arma de Instrucción Masiva // Editorial Fe en la Errata// Madame Ivonne // Comandante Error and company // )
Video Editors: Cristian Tapies & Federico Zukerfeld
Error Arsenal http://www.smartprojectspace.
By mistake a lovely arsenal was discovered in an undercover headquarters of the "international errorist" which was raided. Fortunately no one had to escape, but all of them escaped. Three dozen hand grenades hand painted, stuttering singer’s revolvers, erotic Keffiyehs, mix language manifestos, enormous flags and illusions about the new revolutions are lying on the table.
The secret bureau is not only imaginary. It’s here, around us, we can play with toys like children’s ... if we can imagine or believe, just for one second, that representation is reality and reality is representation.
How an organization operates with these erratic characteristics?
Where is the symbolic value behind the images? Could be possible to “use” the imagination?
Installation. Collection of objects used in the actions to repudiate the visit of George W Bush for the “Fourth summit of the Americas” in Mar del Plata, Argentina, 4 - 5 November, 2005.
Etcetera…Etcetera… (Video Room) http://www.youtube.com/user/
On this room is presented a brief tour for the Etcetera... collective history through a resume of their best actions in streets , public interventions and performances in protest and demonstrations.
EtceteraTV / VIDEO , 24 Minutes, 2004- 2005 / Con-Trabajo (o Sin-Fonía) VIDEO 12 minutes,2004
The Errorist Kabaret http://www.smartprojectspace.
The installation was commissioned in 2009 during a residency in Turkey at Platform Garanti in Istanbul, as part of the 11th Istanbul Biennial “What keeps mankind alive?” a sentence taken from Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weil play The Threepenny Opera.
The installation is composed of more than 30 paintings set inside a theatre stage surrounded by various life-sized characters, called 'gente armada', which means both 'armed' and 'constructed' people, representing different personalities from Turkey and other parts of the world in a surreal discussion about hopes and desires which takes place between intellectuals, artists, revolutionaries and people speaking with desirable objects. Hearing the opinion of a bottle of wine, a teacup or an ashtray creates a comedy of socio-political reality from an unconstrained, errorist perspective discussing the paradigmatic situation of avant garde representation today. The theatrical stage is open, leaving protagonism to the common audience and participation between the artworks, tables and cardboard figures distributed everywhere. Here bottles can think, tables chat with paintings, glasses drink, people and ashtrays are always full of poetry. The room is full; there is a special show today, welcome to the Errorist Kabaret!
The Errorist Kabaret was supported by Foundation for Art Initiatives, IKSV, Vasif Kortun, WHW
Library
The space of library is shared with Chto Delat? include material from Etcetera Archive , catalogues, brochures and publications for public consulting
Fragments of the text "The Rhythm of Capital and Theatre of Terror: The Errorist International, Etcetera... " by Jennifer Flores Sternad.
included inside the installation at the Space 2. Published in Book: Reflect #8, Art and Activism in the Age of Globalization , Pages 214-238.
Editors: Lieven de Cauter, Rubben de Roo, Karel Vanhaesebrouck / NAi Publishers' Reflect / http://www.naipublishers.nl/
Museum Songspiel – The Netherlands 20XX (Space 6) by Chto Delat?
The Revolutions through affect: "From Relative Truth to the Absolute Error" comes as continuity of the exhibition showed previously “What is to be done? Between Tragedy and Farce” by Chto Delat? (what is to be done?) platform. The collaboration between Etcetera… and Chto Delat? started about five years ago, the 1th may of 2005, during the debates celebrated in the framework of the exhibition “Collective Creativity” curate by the curatorial collective WHW (What How and for Whom) in Friedericianum Museum in Kassel, Germany. In that poetic politic laboratory a “Russian Tango” cocktail has born, and since then a more dynamic dialogue between both collectives in different formats of collaborations like magazines, conferences, exhibitions or midnight assemblies.
Collective Improvisation into the pre-opening party at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Collective Creativity, Kassel, 2005
Specials thanks to our special guests for the Errorist evening: Sebastian Diaz Morales for his film Oracle and Lado Darakhvelidze for the Museum TV Station.
Acknowledgements:
Thomas Peutz & Una Henry, SMART Project Space.
Chto Delat?, Olga Egorova , Dmitry Vilensky, Nikolay Oleinikov, Gliuklya.
Alex Lebbink, Tom, and the all SMART Project Space staff, assistants and technician.
Exhibition produced thanks the support of SMART Project Space.
