‘Cater to you’ — Group exhibition by EIGEN + ART Lab

Carter to you

Cudelice Bracelton, Madison Bycroft, Jake Kent, Anna Solal, ZoeWilliams

EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin

Curated by Marie Gerbaulet, Hendrike Nagel, Elena Setzer

September 10 — October 19, 2019

Cater to…

…the potential of productive withdrawals as instances of social and political creativity revamping existing infrastructures and giving shape to new institutional assemblages. (Kuba Szreder)

…the understanding of the table as the smallest – injectable – social architecture;
to perceive a seating order not as a preset of social relations and invitation to
vampirism, but as a caring context to serve different mindsets
and digest agonistic menus.

… service as a strategy of love; to discard any value system which looks at any task that is related to ‘service’ as devalued but instead celebrate it as the strengthening of our
capacity to know compassion and deepen our insight.
(bell hooks)

…the healing of the wounds of binary representations and check box systems and the reclaim of the tools of scarification and branding.

… symbolic overproduction not as a form of escapist formalism and distinction but as a form of empowerment and complexity; to apply an overuse of style which might
lead into its contradiction.

…the act of exiting not as an act of passivity; to believe in defection as a modification of the conditions within which the struggle takes place, rather than presupposing those conditions to be an unalterable horizon.
(Paolo Virno)

… abject and abjection as safeguards, which billows on the edge of
non-existence and hallucination, of a reality that annihilates certainties.
(Julia Kristeva)

…the process of affirmation and circulation as multi-faced potentials being all additive, subjective, romantic, imaginative, personal, autobiographical, whimsical, narrative, decorative, lyrical, architectural, sculptural, eccentric, local, specific, spontaneous, irrational, private, impulsive, gestural, handwritten, handmade, colorful, joyful, obsessive, fussy, funny, funky, vulgar, perverse, mannerist, tribal, rococo, tactile, self-referring, sumptuous, sensuous, salacious, eclectic, exotic, messy, monstrous, complex, ornamented, embroidered, articulated, spatial, light-filled, delicate, warm, open,
questioning and sharing. (Joyce Kozloff)