DECEMBER_15-17.2017
OPENING _____DEC _15 _____ 18:00
ՀԱՅART mashtots 7a
Creative modalities of pasts seem like the holding
still of a once moving image in the present: a production of history over the
creation of life and landscape by cutting at the reel of experiential and
experimental reality. While pasts are
discussed as monolithic bodies of time-space, they are composed of (re)writings
and (re)significations that render the possibilities that once were into
historical claims for the necessity of present op/repression. Rather than being
occupied by these displacements, can the (re)living of past moments of
transformation allow us to occupy possibility instead? Perhaps we can demand
alternative rewritings, the making of life between and through these parallel
(broken) time-spaces. How can these alternative makings of past experience open
up alternative readings of other pasts or, perhaps more vital, alternative
futures - the “flashes in a moment of danger” that are meant to be forgotten?
As example, the Soviet 1920s, rendered empty of the potential that did not
serve the history of what “happened” can
be rewritten vis-a-vis the post-Soviet
1990s that - as in a parallel time-space - have also been historically left
evacuated. What are these times of an unnecessary past - or, what can they be -
these “flashes in a moment of danger”? Historical (re)production produces
phallic time. What can historical creation open - an écriture féminine or a queering of pasts and
presents toward other worldings?
The language of transition by/impasses the “open,”
erasing moments in which imaginaries of freedom went beyond the “freedom” that
was yet to be produced and sold. Transition has become a narrative that
inscribes a normative language to space and time - forward movement and a
denial of political deviance and perversion. Historical cuts - eras, regimes,
lives, bodies - render transformation into transition, obfuscating practices of
freedom toward radical change.
Rethinking these once states of mind made states
requires dismantling the process of historical (re)production. "What
futures can emerge through a weaving of these only-partially (re)signified
image-threads - fissured - that hold time and space with potential for the
(aesthetic) emergence of the otherwise, the other place, the
not-yet?" Recreating memory of
what once was or what could have been emerges potential to make life life
(again)
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