An Alter-Economy of Becoming Elsewhere | anique vered

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An Alter-Economy of Becoming Elsewhere, anique vered (Montreal, QC)

October 2016. Masking tape, red yarn, objects, and words throughout the museum.

A baring of daily life as art, vered simultaneously prompts and reveals change by exploring and documenting alternate social and economic forms. An Alter-Economy asked 14 Elsewhere staff members, interns, and artists to participate in a 7-day durational encounter throughout the 3 floors of the museum. The artist asked participants through personal invitations, performative actions, and spatial interventions to trace their prompted experiences with masking tape, red yarn, found objects, and words. The tracing of the encounter (marking, moving, notating, being-with) was up to the participant, thus undertaken with consent and different degrees of engagement to choose from. These marks indicate moments that emerged within the social economy as the durational encounters continued.

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anique vered is an artist-researcher working across affect theory, process philosophy, alter-economies and social practice. Aside from an ever-present penchant to a wild openness (yes, you are welcome to read that as an invitation for riotous yet sensitive conversation), she is currently interested in new social and economic forms and organizational gestures based on post-structuralist, queer and decolonial ethics of care. Originally from Australia, anique is based at SenseLab, Concordia University in Montreal, and also works with The School of Making Thinking (SMT). Recent projects include: the social intervention ‘Ruptures and bending continuums : learning from the underside’ at the Deathbeds symposium; curatorial consulting for ‘Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue’ at The Center for Curating and Public Scholarship; co-curating/ co-producing SMT’s ‘Words & [ ] – a Durational Conference of Art and Thought’ which also featured some of anique’s social practice; and the performative paper ‘(In)equal relations: a reconnaissance towards an alter-economy of Understanding.'

During her residency at Elsewhere, vered created An Alter-Economy of Becoming Elsewhere.

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