Photo: Tadej Pogačar & P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art
25 October – 15 December 2024
La Box, Ensa Bourges (FR)
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Curated by: Ludovic Bernhardt in Ferenc Grof
Based on the work of Swedish artist and poet Öyvind Fahlström (born 1928 in São Paulo, died 1976 in Stockholm), the group exhibition Map, Play, Game. La cartographie en jeu(x) : un art du jeu critique et de la géopolitique (An Art of Critical Play and Geopolitics) brings together works by artists who are confronted with the manipulation of data in the form of games and cartographies. Driven by geopolitical, geographical, and critical concerns, as well as by a commitment to the use of games, these works lead us to question the dismantling of artistic writing. Fahlström’s visual works, as well as his cartographies, game boards, performances and theatrical activations, are imbued with notions of play (which bring play and game into dialogue), and form the starting point for a reflection on the role of today’s artists in the ‘game’ of global manipulation. In this way, the guest artists draw a line of continuity with Fahlström, and the «ingenious double game» of the lost treasure of childhood and its reactivation in the adult world through the medium of art.
MonApoly by Tadej Pogačar & P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art (part of a longterm collaborative project CODE:RED) is a remodeling of the most famous capitalist game. It visually follows the original Monopoly and the basic scheme of the game, but the contents are completely new. While playing, the players obtain new information on global sex work, important locations, activist organizations, organized crime gangs that organize human trafficking, etc. The players can finance the construction of a safe house, support the operation of groups that are fighting for the rights of the sex workers and their programs or can save a Moldavian sex slave. MonApoly is a new cartography of sex work and global human trafficking. Instead of accumulating capital, it explains to the players the geopolitics of sex work in the period of late capitalism and global economy.
Artistes | Artists Manca Bajec, Martin Bricelj Baraga, Öyvind Fahlström, Agnes Dénes, Disnovation.org, Larissa Fassler, Tadej Pogačar, Faith Ringgold, Maria Sarycheva, Sergen Şehitoğlu, Société Réaliste, Union Pragmatique, Haythem Zakaria.