Mémoire de l'Avenir

2015, Art Basel Hong Kong, How to avoid art fatigue, avialable here: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150317-how-to-avoid-art-fatigue

Camille Henrot: 2013, Grosse Fatigue | Video Art

CONDITIONS FOR APPLYING

DEADLINE June 9th at midnight.

Send a PDF file, in English and/or in French

including:

-Visuals of the artworks or performance (HD if possible)

-A short presentation of the artwork (300-600 characters max.)

-A short biography (300-600 characters max.)

to the 3 following email address:

- margalit.berriet@memoire-a-venir.org

- liwei.xuu@gmail.com

- direction@memoire-a-venir.org

Following a review, you will receive an answer by 13th of June 2024.

A cooperative participation is required

see full open call on line HERE

ABOUT

..."If you can dream – and not make dreams your master

If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same"...

If, Rudyard Kipling - Full Version here

Fatigue is not simply an isolated personal feeling. Over the past decades, fatigue has become a subject of research as a social, cultural, and scientific issue.

The modern Olympic Games show humanity's aspiration to infinitely surpass its own physical and emotional limits.

The idea of progress and performance was invented in sports from the 18th century on-wards. Since the second half of the 20th century, in a society where human performance is measured by work, everyone must face an overload and acceleration of work for increased performance, resulting in constant physical fatigue.

Can the state of tirdness be fundemental to Beings?

The exhibition "Spring Out Of Tirdness" invites artists to question the fatigue and our individual or collective doings, as a shared human condition and to take a new look at what shapes it and what it generates.

From July 5th to September 5th, 2024

Mémoire de l'Avenir (MDA)/Humanities, Arts and Society (HAS)

will bring together about 10 artists from around the world,

from all media and forme of expressions,

to create a trans-disciplinary collective exhibition

to explore the theme:

Spring Out of Tiredness

- Collective fatigue -

as a social, cultural, economic, political and individual

phenomenonin our societies.

Curators :

Guest Curator: Liwei XU, PhD in Art History